The company will also provide behind-the-scenes looks at "Encanto".
Walt Disney Animation Studios will present its latest innovations, tools, and techniques at the computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH 2022. The company will also show a behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Award-winning "Encanto".
This year, the conference is held in Vancouver, where Walt Disney Animation Studios’ new studio is.
"We look forward to connecting with our community, sharing more about the latest projects from Disney Animation, as well as the exciting studio we are building here. We have hired some of the best talent out there already and we are just getting started," said Amir Nasrabadi, head of the Vancouver studio.
In the production session, Encanto creators will break down the process of creating the iconic song sequence "We Don't Talk About Bruno." The filmmakers will discuss creating the characters, capturing cultural specificity in dance and movement, as well as the cinematography of the musical sequence. The presentation will be followed by a meet and greet and Q&A.
The company will hold several talks, where it will cover the creative approaches and collaborative processes that brought Bruno's visions to the screen and present Disney Animation’s new tessellation algorithm for production rendering of fractured subdivision surfaces, which produces higher-quality results with less distortion, enables a more efficient fracture pipeline, and was key to animating the destruction of the family house in Encanto.
Additionally, the studio will present the Command Center, a web application for communicating and monitoring high-dimensional production metrics at the studio, which provides near-real-time insights into key film production metrics, all integrated into a singular film interface. Walt Disney Animation Studios' technical specialists will also present the company's approaches to the new USD pipeline that was targeted for the production of Encanto when the studio was fully remote, and the takeaways from the experience.
At SIGGRAPH, you will see the techniques used to create complex fiber-level cloth features of Encanto. "Embroidery workflows were extended to support a variety of styles, including needle paint, knot, and rope stitching. Cloth fibers are generated procedurally in Houdini, and the resulting curves are used as input to Disney’s XGen."
Some talks will be available on-demand. There, you'll learn how a simple optimization algorithm preloads the hair rest shape to compensate for the gravity to maintain the groom shape during simulation as well as the technical challenges encountered in bringing Isabela’s room to life and the subsequent artistic and technical solutions.
SIGGRAPH 2022 will take place on August 8-11. Learn more about Walt Disney Animation Studios' presentations here. Also, don't forget to join our Reddit page and our Telegram channel, follow us on Instagram and Twitter, where we are sharing breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.