Talks
Dynamics
Wednesday, 13 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 109-110 Session Chair: Craig Barnes, Nokia
Elastic and Plastic Deformations With Rigid Body Dynamics
A fast and robust method of simulating flexible materials that offers significant advantages over existing methods.
Jeffrey Budsberg
DreamWorks Animation
Nafees Bin Zafar
DreamWorks Animation
Mihai Alden
DreamWorks Animation
Integrating FEA Physics in a Non-Linear Workflow for "Edge of Tomorrow"
To tackle to the wide variety of effects in "Edge of Tomorrow", Sony Pictures Imageworks integrated a finite-element solution into an existing non-linear platform, which enabled solutions to common scalability issues with FEA and expanded usage to include multiple solvers.
Steve Avoujageli
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Atsushi Ikarashi
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Art Directing Rigid-Body Dynamics as a Post Process
Rigid-body dynamics is a frequently used tool in VFX. This talk proposes a few post-processing approaches to add detail to existing simulations or deform the geometries so they behave like other materials.
Fangwei Lee
DreamWorks Animation
A Position-Based Dynamics System for Animated Character Effects
Summary of a project that adopted a position-based dynamics system for cloth and other character effects, and demonstration of significant improvements in artist workflow and iteration time.
Tim Steele
DreamWorks Animation
J. C. Leprevost
Numerion Software Ltd
Kriss Gossart
Numerion Software Ltd
Ron Henderson
DreamWorks Animation