Rigging and Shaping the Elements | Curvenet Animation Controls in Pixar’s Elemental

We present a new shaping rig for authoring layers of animation control that facilitate surface editing in shot work. Our approach expands the curvenet rigging technology by introducing new tools that auto-generate a surface-aligned direct manipulator per curvenet knot.
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[@MakarMalitsky]

amazing!

[@LordLuigi_Rigs]

More videos coming!

[@jamil1985]

Looks similar to Lattice deformer.

[@LordLuigi_Rigs]

Yup!

[@paper2394]

thx man

[@LordLuigi_Rigs]

You're welcome!

[@alexandrepv]

Really interesting work! Where could we find the Corvent's model and source code?

[@LordLuigi_Rigs]

Its an in-house tool. Only way to get your hands on it is to go work for Pixar

[@alexandrepv]

@@LordLuigi_RigsI see. Fair enough. But they seem to be using bicubic bezier patches, so in theory, it can be replicated. Similar to cage deformers, but using bezier surfaces. They have a paper on it "Character Articulation through Profile Curves". I'm gonna try implementing something similar this summer, see how deep this rabbit hole is :)

[@joshtucker9798]

what program is this?

[@LordLuigi_Rigs]

Pixar's in-house tool called curvenet

[@Countryballs_Animation_Studios]

Do you work at pixar