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SUMMARY:The Witch's Cat
DESCRIPTION:Seth Holladay, Craig Van Dyke, Jessica Fink Blaine, and Abby S
 taker (Brigham Young University)\n\nThis film tells the story of a Witch's
  familiar cat "Singe", which we wanted to imbue with a sense of personalit
 y and magic. Singe gave the character FX the deep challenge of creating a 
 quadruped with a black, clean, expressive coat of fur and added wings. The
  witch "Maggie" and her princely boyfriend "Kelleth" fall for each other w
 hile Singe tries to stop their engagement with magic. Kelleth has fancy la
 yered clothing with coat, epaulets, and dress shirt. Maggie has tall, curl
 y hair and a hoop dress covered with scales. All these complex layers and 
 simulations were set up to simulate automatically for most of the shots. A
 s the cat and witch fight over a wand in her house, magic flies everywhere
  causing chaos and causing some items to turn into yarn and others to turn
  into mushrooms. These object-transition shots were artfully generated wit
 h an FX team that used a yarn-creation tool they developed and applied to 
 simulation and deformations. The lighting team dealt with the same room th
 roughout the animation, but pushed the colors and values throughout to mat
 ch the mood of the witch and her cat.\n\nThe pipeline team used Solaris in
  Houdini to publish USD assets, and hierarchical USD layouts and shots, th
 at could be referenced into Houdini, Maya, and Unreal Engine. They did thi
 s to be able to open up scenes in any of the software packages and play to
  each software's strengths in visualizing sets, animation, FX, and lightin
 g from early on to final during production. Two students from our team pre
 sented about the pipeline at SIGGRAPH 2023.\n\nRegistration Category: Full
  Access, Enhanced Access, Trade Exhibitor, Experience Hall Exhibitor\n\n
URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2023/full-program?id=caf_463&sess=sess214
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