Nick Augello
ABSTRACT
The world of hair in DreamWorks’ film Trolls World Tour got much bigger than in the first film Trolls [Missey et al. 2017]. The distinct musical genre that each Troll tribe was devoted to influenced their hair design and movement. The wide variety of hair effects, both passive and active, exhibited by the Trolls in various environments and situations, provided interesting challenges. This talk presents the techniques used to bring that expansive world of hair to life.
- Nicholas Augello and Arunachalam Somasundaram. 2019. Skunk: DreamWorks Fur Motion System. In Proceedings of the 2019 Digital Production Symposium(DigiPro ’19). ACM, NY, USA, Article 8, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3329715.3338876Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Galen Gornowicz and Silviu Borac. 2015. Efficient and Stable Approach to Elasticity and Collisions for Hair Animation. In Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium on Digital Production(DigiPro ’15). ACM, 41–49. https://doi.org/10.1145/2791261.2791271Google ScholarDigital Library
- Brian Missey, Amaury Aubel, Arunachalam Somasundaram, and Megha Davalath. 2017. Hairy Effects in Trolls. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Talks(SIGGRAPH ’17). https://doi.org/10.1145/3084363.3085070Google Scholar
- Arunachalam Somasundaram. 2015. Dynamically Controlling Hair Interpolation. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Talks. Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1145/2775280.2792541Google Scholar
- Hair Effects in Trolls World Tour
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