Digital pyro for Reign of Fire

The challenge of animating believable dragons was presented to Disney Feature Animation and The Secret Lab (TSL) for the film "Reign of Fire". The film called for 100ft creatures with wing spans of 300ft that could undergo enormous speeds and ...

Fluid dynamics can produce realistic looking fire effects, which are heavily used in animation and films. However, the parameters of the various underlying physical equations are not intuitive enough to be controlled easily. As a result, animators face ...

We present a novel graph-based data-driven technique for cost-effective fire modeling. This technique allows composing long animation sequences using a small number of short simulations. While traditional techniques such as motion graphs and motion ...