Over 25 years, Pixar's cloth animation has come so far that it was able to build an entire character out of a pair of pants for 2020's "Onward." We take a look at the labor- and time-intensive process ...
The elaborate costumes worn by Rapunzel, the heroine of Disney's "Tangled," are testament to the growing sophistication of cloth animation, but for art directors, who must tweak tens or hundreds of ...
Carl Feynman, son of American theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, pioneered cloth simulation in computer graphics at MIT in 1986. He found AI's rapid progress both fascinating and worrying. After ...
Creating realistic looking character models can be difficult. We have seen plenty of advances this gen, with games like Uncharted and the likes pushing the bar in creating believable characters. But ...
Existing multigrid methods for cloth simulation are based on geometric multigrid. While good results have been reported, geometric methods are problematic for unstructured grids, widely varying ...
From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?