Articles – MPC

Water Effects for Pirates of the Caribbean

Water Effects for Pirates [...]

by Kai Wolter

MPC R&D Siggraph 2017 talk on creating the water effects for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales

MPC R&D Siggraph 2017 talk on creating the water effects for Pirates of the [...]

Pixar RenderMan at MPC Film London: Part 1

Pixar RenderMan at MPC [...]

by MPC R&D

In this first part the Pixar Renderman team came to visit MPC Film in London to learn how Renderman contributes to the VFX process.

In this first part the Pixar Renderman team came to visit MPC Film in London to learn [...]

Realistic Wrinkles in Dumbo

by Christoph Genzwürker

We introduce a new cross department workflow to generate wrinkles automatically.

Cloudy with a chance of Rendering

Cloudy with a chance of [...]

by Hannes Ricklefs

How MPC used cloud technology to complete Disney's The Jungle Book

Advancing Technologies for The Lion King

Advancing Technologies [...]

by Kai Wolter

We present the technology advances made in grooming, simulation, shading and scattering to bring The Lion King back to the big screen.

We present the technology advances made in grooming, simulation, shading and [...]

Fast & Furious in Stereo for a 400ft Curved Screen

Fast & Furious in [...]

by Rob Pieké

Siggraph 2016 talk explains how MPC produced a 90-second shot for Fast & Furious: Supercharged at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Siggraph 2016 talk explains how MPC produced a 90-second shot for Fast & Furious: [...]

Automated Presentation of Furry Characters using Hydra

Automated Presentation of [...]

by Curtis Andrus

We describe how MPC R&D developed a tool to automatically display grooms in our animation dailies using Pixar's Hydra.

We describe how MPC R&D developed a tool to automatically display grooms in our [...]

Can’t See The Jungle For The Trees

Can’t See The Jungle For [...]

by Tom Melson

This Siggraph 2017 talk explains the tools MPC R&D build in order to manage huge and highly detailed jungle sets for The Jungle Book.

This Siggraph 2017 talk explains the tools MPC R&D build in order to manage huge and [...]

Detective Pikachu: Bringing Pokémon to the screen

Detective Pikachu: [...]

by MPC R&D

MPC R&D highlight some of the challenges bringing the world of Pokémon into the real world and onto the big screen.

MPC R&D highlight some of the challenges bringing the world of Pokémon into the real [...]

Fluffy Fur Dynamics on Pikachu

by Curtis Andrus

We present new tools and workflows to procedurally create natural looking fluffy fur effects without hair simulation.

We present new tools and workflows to procedurally create natural looking fluffy fur [...]

Creating Ahmanet in The Mummy

by Curtis Andrus

This Siggraph 2017 talks about augmenting The Mummy's Ahmanet with optical flow-based face tracking

This Siggraph 2017 talks about augmenting The Mummy's Ahmanet with optical flow-based [...]

Creating realistic skin wrinkles for Dumbo

Creating realistic skin [...]

by MPC R&D

MPC R&D highlight their new workflow to generate wrinkles automatically for Dumbo.

The FX of The Jungle Book

by Oliver Winwood

This Siggraph 2016 talk explains how MPC R&D helped deliver complex FX for over 900 shots in The Jungle Book.

This Siggraph 2016 talk explains how MPC R&D helped deliver complex FX for over 900 [...]

Rapid, High Quality Dailies for The Jungle Book

Rapid, High Quality [...]

by Marco Romeo

Read how we used RenderFlow, our own pipeline-aware rendering API to produce high quality daily previews for internal and client reviews

Read how we used RenderFlow, our own pipeline-aware rendering API to produce high [...]

Flesh Dynamics and Intersection Cleanup in Detective Pikachu

Flesh Dynamics and [...]

by Curtis Andrus

We describe the tool that was built to simulate secondary motion of flesh and resolve geometry intersections on Detective Pikachu.

We describe the tool that was built to simulate secondary motion of flesh and resolve [...]

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