Pixar also integrated Katana (The Foundry’s collaborative lighting and look development tool) into Renderman, which allows live rendering opportunities for the animator. “That environment has so much glass and water, and now we’re able to describe that.” “You can see that a lot when we’re in the Marine Life Institute ,” said Halstead. This allowed for reflection and refraction in water to look more naturalistic. The biggest tech leap on “Finding Dory” (under the direction of CTO Steve May) was the addition of Renderman RIS to the Pixar pipeline: a new and more efficient rendering paradigm for global illumination, specifically for ray-tracing heavy geometry, hair and bright and shiny surfaces. “Characters are like action figures that get handed over to animation and you never know what they’re going to do with them.” “We were too busy researching the octopus and never made that connection,” Talbot said. However, it never occurred to anyone at Pixar that Hank’s camouflaging ability made him similar to the villainous Randall from “Monsters, Inc.” And the art department figured out the overall aesthetic of Hank and how that fit in with the limitations of technology.” “How do the suckers work? Simulation took on that task. What about the webbing between the legs and how that interacts with the face? The character department tackled that. “There are so many parts that we had to break him apart,” Talbot continued. “How do you create an octopus, which looks like anarchy of motion,” asked Jeremie Talbot, the character supervisor,” and then distill that into something that looks designed and elegant and fits in that Dory world?” FINDING DORY – Lighting Exploration Concept Art by Visual Consultant Sharon Calahan. ‘The Monkey King’ Modernizes (and Animates) a Chinese Folktale with a Heroic Jerk and a Magical Fighting Stickīy contrast, Hank, the cantankerous octopus (Ed O’Neill), presents the perfect foil to Dory’s sweet sincerity in this buddy comedy.
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