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Dancing Trees

Monday, 25 July, 9:00 am - 10:30 am, Anaheim Convention Center, Room 303 A-C

Art-Directable Procedural Vegetation in Disney's "Zootopia"

To address the large appetite for varied and dynamic vegetation on "Zootopia", the creative team expanded their tool set for procedural vegetation to realize diverse flora across varied environments, populate hundreds of shots with dynamic vegetation, and bring to life the rich world of a mammalian metropolis.

Sara Drakeley
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Maryann Simmons
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Hans Keim
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Jared Reisweber
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Daniel Teece
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Vegetation Choreography in "The Good Dinosaur"

Nature plays a major part in Disney/Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur". Each component of the environment had to react to weather and other characters’ actions, which required choreography and simulated motion for each piece of vegetation in the film.

Olivier Soares
Magic Leap, Inc

Thomas Moser
Pixar Animation Studios

Frank Aalbers
Pixar Animation Studios

Gordon Cameron
Pixar Animation Studios

Can't See the Jungle for the Trees

For Disney's "The Jungle Book", we needed to build huge and highly detailed jungle sets. We built a tool set that enables our artists to view and manipulate this amount of data, providing powerful functionality whilst maximising efficiency.

Tom Melson
Moving Picture Company

The Trees of "The Jungle Book"

For Disney's remake of "The Jungle Book", MPC was required to build a jungle comprised of photorealistic trees and other plantlife. The creative team leveraged SpeedTree and Fabric Engine to build a pipeline for those elements. Approximated leaf cards, replaced at render time, maximized the image quality and render performance.

Alexander Schwank
Moving Picture Company

Callum James
Moving Picture Company

Tony Micilotta
Moving Picture Company