Rule-based crowds: generation, animation, cloth and rendering of 15.000 unique human characters

Coco, Pixar's largest human-based crowds film to date, was ambitious both visually and technically. Over a third of the film contains crowd scenes, ranging from a mansion-filled dance party to thousands of skeleton families journeying across a bridge, ...

We discuss advancing the fine detail of deforming hero-quality simulated crowd agents in animated feature film production. To support character animation that is suitably framed arbitrarily close to camera, our approach uses a novel deformation system ...

Crowd animation is a topic of high interest which offers many challenges. One of the most important is the trade-off between rich, realistic behaviors, and computational costs. To this end, much effort has been put into creating variety in character ...