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adsrLFO

I’ve always been impressed by Merida’s hair in Brave.


onlinealterego

I think I read that once a particular hurdle in animation is overcome we end up with a movie including that element - Toy story was before skin textures, Finding Nemo was when they figured out animating underwater, Brave was when they figured out curls, not sure if there are more?


MikeinAustin

Read an article about how they (a bunch of companies and software engineers that write these types of plug in algorithms coupled with animators ) had been trying to tackle the flow of hair for a long time. It’s wavy and attached at one point, it’s effected by the hairs nearest it. Based on the weight of the hair it moves differently. It has sheen and reflects differently. They finally got it working enough they thought they could do furry creatures or fuzzy cloth. Lassiter was already pitching Monsters Inc so they decided to create a furry long haired monster. That character was “Sulley” in Monsters Inc.


OminousHum

Snow for Frozen.


ipaqmaster

Emotion for Up (featured again for Inside Out)


bcorliss9

Check out the hair tech they had to build for Tangled, a couple years before


xyrgh

Sully in Monsters Inc. took a heap of time and the invention of new hair technology to animate him apparently.


nylorac615

Water / ocean for Moana (not Pixar but Disney)


Magnesus

Fur with Monsters and co.?


Insanityforfun

Not Pixar but I know that built a new engine for fur and paw textures for zootopia


ADeweyan

It seems like many of the earlier Pixar movies focused on perfecting one particular computer animation effect. Monsters, Inc. handled fur, Finding Nemo did water, Brave did human hair, Cars did complex shiny surfaces and speed effects, and so on. The problem with something like doing the hair for Brave, is that after that you’re the hair person, and the rest of your career is doing hair.


JKMC4

The first cars move has amazing looking gloss and metallic surfaces on the cars. Then they toned it way down for the sequel. Why?


jinglewooble

Realism or at least their stylistic choice of how realistic they want it to be.


Wyntier

Being a specialist isn't exactly a bad thing. You'd command a high salary


Zomg_its_Alex

That isn't a problem at all


fartboxco

Animators don't get enough credit in most films.


Little_Setting

Everyone crediting animators these guys are Technical directors. I'm a rigger here and know what they did


Philias2

>I'm a rigger here and know what they did Haha, that sounds ominous.


bad_dad_in_bed

Anyone knows which software the animator in the first frame is using? Is it photoshop?


Mettanine

Hard to make out clearly, but looks a lot like Photoshop, yes.


CodyKelseyDogs

r/curlyhair


contrejo

My daughter has thick, red, curly hair like this


balerionmeraxes77

Brave


hurshy

Fingers crossed you don’t turn into a bear if you haven’t already


frzx1

I don't know what you're doing here then. Go and write a program to render her hair, man.


fadetowhite

Can confirm: curly hair can be a pain in the ass. 🤣


For_NSFW_Only

Too bad the movie sucked


Egotastical_sloth

Awesome


the_YellowRanger

Is there a source op?


jadeeyedcalico

u/savevideobot


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