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SUMMARY:The Witch's Cat
DESCRIPTION:Computer Animation Festival\n\nSeth Holladay, Craig Van Dyke, 
 Jessica Fink Blaine, and Abby Staker (Brigham Young University)\n\nThis fi
 lm tells the story of a Witch's familiar cat "Singe", which we wanted to i
 mbue with a sense of personality and magic. Singe gave the character FX th
 e deep challenge of creating a quadruped with a black, clean, expressive c
 oat of fur and added wings. The witch "Maggie" and her princely boyfriend 
 "Kelleth" fall for each other while Singe tries to stop their engagement w
 ith magic. Kelleth has fancy layered clothing with coat, epaulets, and dre
 ss shirt. Maggie has tall, curly hair and a hoop dress covered with scales
 . All these complex layers and simulations were set up to simulate automat
 ically for most of the shots. As the cat and witch fight over a wand in he
 r house, magic flies everywhere causing chaos and causing some items to tu
 rn into yarn and others to turn into mushrooms. These object-transition sh
 ots were artfully generated with an FX team that used a yarn-creation tool
  they developed and applied to simulation and deformations. The lighting t
 eam dealt with the same room throughout the animation, but pushed the colo
 rs and values throughout to match the mood of the witch and her cat.\n\nTh
 e pipeline team used Solaris in Houdini to publish USD assets, and hierarc
 hical USD layouts and shots, that could be referenced into Houdini, Maya, 
 and Unreal Engine. They did this to be able to open up scenes in any of th
 e software packages and play to each software's strengths in visualizing s
 ets, animation, FX, and lighting from early on to final during production.
  Two students from our team presented about the pipeline at SIGGRAPH 2023.
 \n\nRegistration Category: Full Access, Enhanced Access, Trade Exhibitor, 
 Experience Hall Exhibitor
URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2023/full-program?id=caf_463&sess=sess215
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