2. Course 36: From Ivory Tower to Silver Screen: Visual Effects Companies Reveal How R&D Find its way into Production

3. Six Top Visual Effects Companies Pixar Pixar Sony Pictures Imageworks Sony Pictures Imageworks The Secret Lab The Secret Lab Digital Domain Digital Domain ILM ILM PDI / Dreamworks PDI / Dreamworks

4. Movies Monster, Inc Monster, Inc Shrek Shrek Stuart Little 2 Stuart Little 2 AI AI

5. Topics 1. Production and R&D Pipeline 2. Fur Creation & Dynamics 3. Feather & Flight 4. 3D Stereoscopic images 5. Photo modeling & Hair combing 6. Tracking, volumetrcs, rendering modeling and other sfx techs.

6. Table of contents 1. Pixar 1. Animating Monster Fur 2. Creating Clothing for Monsters, Inc. 2. Sony Pictures Imageworks 1. Feather Software Design Issue 3. The Secret Lab 1. Research and Production at The Secret Lab

7. Table of contents 1. PDI / Dreamworks 1. Getting Under Shreks’ Skin 2. Digital Domain 1. From Research and Development to Production : Three Perspectives 3. Industrial Light and Magic 1. Photomodeling and Hair Combing for AI 2. From Digital Reference to Screen

8. Animating Monster Fur – Pixar

10. Feather Software Design Issues – Sony imageworks

11. Getting Under Shrek’s Skin – PDI/ Dreamworks

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