It's Raining Monsters

Thursday, 25 July 3:45 PM - 5:35 PM
Session Chair: Juan Buhler

Creating a Monster: Artistic and Technical Challenges

Creating believable characters frequently creates interesting challenges. The character Dean Hardscrabble of "Monsters University" is a good example of how combining existing and new technologies can effectively streamline the process and break down some of the complex problems.

Michael Honsel
Pixar Animation Studios

Crowds at "Monsters University"

Populating the vast campus of "Monsters University" required a pipeline that efficiently produced many highly directable medium-scale crowds. This talk presents a new set of tools built for crowd population, placement, path animation, and behavior choreography.

James Northrup
Pixar Animation Studios

Michael Frederickson
Pixar Animation Studios

Hemagiri Arumugam
Pixar Animation Studios

Vegetation on "Monsters University"

This talk covers the methods and tools used to create, distribute, and bring to life the vegetation of "Monsters University", and the challenges confronted in the production process.

Antony Carysforth
Pixar Animation Studios

Omar Elafifi
Pixar Animation Studios

Nathan Fariss
Pixar Animation Studios

Henry Garcia
Pixar Animation Studios

Edgar Rodriguez
Pixar Animation Studios

Christine Waggoner
Pixar Animation Studios

Rainy Rain Raining

Michael O'Brien
Pixar Animation Studios

Allen Hemberger
Pixar Animation Studios

Cody Harrington
Pixar Animation Studios

Amit Baadkar
Pixar Animation Studios

Lighting "The Blue Umbrella"

This presentation provides an in-depth look into the artistic lighting process of Pixar's "The Blue Umbrella". It also covers new techniques used on the film, including physically based lighting and shading, deep compositing, and post depth of field.

Brian Boyd
PIxar Animation Studios