WeightShift: Accelerating Animation at Framestore with Physics

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2020
Authors
Chapman, Danny
Daoust, Tim
Ormos, Andras
Lewis, Joseph
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Publisher
The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Framestore and WeightShift created a full-body physics simulation to deliver art-directed shots in highly dynamic scenarios in several days instead of several weeks. Our technique combines ragdoll simulation and keyframe animation in a new control scheme that is integrated in a standard Maya rig to produce a hybrid simulation workflow. The new workflow was used in over 50 completed shots, and is in production on numerous current projects. In this session we share our experience with full-body simulation, and discuss the numerous advantages and challenges of the technique.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:sca.20201219
,
booktitle = {
Eurographics/ ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation - Showcases
},
editor = {
Holden, Daniel
},
title = {{
WeightShift: Accelerating Animation at Framestore with Physics
}},
author = {
Chapman, Danny
 and 
Daoust, Tim
 and 
Ormos, Andras
 and 
Lewis, Joseph
},
year = {
2020
},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {
1727-5288
},
ISBN = {
978-3-03868-129-8
},
DOI = {
10.2312/sca.20201219
}
}
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https://doi.org/10.2312/sca.20201219
 https://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/sca20201219
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SCA 2020: Showcases