When I visited Pixar we were explained how the Marigold Bridge was made using Houdini (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Dn4YrJGak).
jballouz
everything looks really good, except the leaves on the floor they look really fake. Is there a reason why leaves and also peoples hair (on head or facial hair) still look bad ? Thanks
CynthiaJia
I also visited Pixar with sweyns! To add on to sweyns' comment, we also saw that every leaf is actually just a particle, which greatly reduces the work needed to render all of them. They also applied different actions to different levels of leaf particles - those that were completely isolated from the others would flutter and move differently than the ones that were clumped together at the bottom. Super cool!!!
Gyro
Wow, so every leaf is a particle... Cool!
kmc
Recreating this in Houdini is really hard!
vnambiar
To answer @jballouz it's incredibly difficult to animate complex structures such as hair in a realistic way. But I thought Pixar did a great job in Brave. https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/simulation/hair-simulation-101/v/hair-simulation-intro
When I visited Pixar we were explained how the Marigold Bridge was made using Houdini (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Dn4YrJGak).
everything looks really good, except the leaves on the floor they look really fake. Is there a reason why leaves and also peoples hair (on head or facial hair) still look bad ? Thanks
I also visited Pixar with sweyns! To add on to sweyns' comment, we also saw that every leaf is actually just a particle, which greatly reduces the work needed to render all of them. They also applied different actions to different levels of leaf particles - those that were completely isolated from the others would flutter and move differently than the ones that were clumped together at the bottom. Super cool!!!
Wow, so every leaf is a particle... Cool!
Recreating this in Houdini is really hard!
To answer @jballouz it's incredibly difficult to animate complex structures such as hair in a realistic way. But I thought Pixar did a great job in Brave. https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/simulation/hair-simulation-101/v/hair-simulation-intro