This is the last post about computer graphics and I want to ended it with my third favorite Disney movie- Zootopia. It tells a stony about anthropomorphized animals trying to realize their dreams and living in a metropolitan city. The movie is a comedy but also sheds lights on race relations and diversity.
Were you impressed by the fur of all the animals by real they all look? Animal means fur. In fact, one Animal in Zootopia Has More Individual Hairs Than Every Character in Frozen Combined.
Similar to how disney studies water waves in Finding Nemo, the Zootipia team are composed of directors, engineers and animators. They spent eight month studying animals and they went to San Diego's Safari Park, Disney's Animal Kingdom and all the way to Kenya to observe their movements and habits. To make look real, the team went to Natural History Museum and studied fur under a microscope and under lighting setups.
To make the animals look realistic, Disney's trusty team of engineers introduced iGroom, a fur-controlling tool that had never been used before. The software helped shape about 2.5 million hairs on the leading bunny and about the same on the fox. A giraffe in the movie walks around with 9 million hairs, while a gerbil has about 480,000 (even the rodent in the movie beats Elsa's 400,000 strands in Frozen).
The software gave animator so much more flexibilities that they could easily brush, shade and brush the fur. iGroom iterates very quickly and this immediate feedback enables the team to play around to achieve the effect they want.
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Picture References:
1.https://www.engadget.com/2016/03/04/fur-technology-makes-zootopias-bunnies-believable/
2.http://fusion.net/story/275485/zootopia-police-racism-race-relations-commentary/
Writing References:
1. One Animal in Zootopia Has More Individual Hairs Than Every Character in Frozen Combined- http://io9.gizmodo.com/one-animal-in-zootopia-has-more-individual-hairs-than-e-1761542252
2. The fur-reaching tech of Zootopia- https://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-fur-reaching-tech-of-zootopia/
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It is so incredible how real the fur on these animated animals looks. You mentioned in your post that the iGroom software even allows for hair to easily be brushed and shaded. Can iGroom be used in films with real animals to brush their hair in certain directions, change the shade, or even make their hair longer or more fluffy?
ReplyDeleteI never realized how specific and precise the animations in these movies were. Your fact about the animals in Zootopia having more individual hair than all the characters in frozen really shocked me. I had never heard of the Groom feature before, and it is amazing how much work computer scientists put in to make the fur seem so realistic. Are there any features for other textures, like velvet or wood?
ReplyDeleteI wonder how they programmed iGroom to simulate millions of individual hairs, you would think that it might be too big of a strain on the computer running it. Simulation technology like this must make creating animated movies a lot easier.
ReplyDeleteThe iGroom feature is pretty incredible. The amount of thought and detail Disney and Pixar put into their animations is so astounding. I wonder if they will continue to implement the iGroom feature into their new movies even if the movies don't center around animals.
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