Rasmus Haapaoja
ABSTRACT
MPC's proprietary grooming software - Furtility - has been used to create all hair, fur and feathers on our characters with great success for over a decade. However, the creation of feather grooms has always been a time consuming and technically challenging task for our Groom department, often keeping a senior artist occupied for months. Due to narrower deadlines and a constant push for higher quality, we recently extended our feather tool set, which has allowed our artists to significantly streamline their feather workflow. After adopting our new geometry-based feather system in production, our Groom artists have been able to reduce the time frame for finalizing a hero character from months to weeks.
- Curtis Andrus. 2018. Layering Changes in a Procedural Grooming Pipeline. In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Digital Production Symposium (DigiPro '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 4, 3 pages. Google Scholar
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Mesh-driven generation and animation of groomed feathers
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