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Topic Started: 21 Apr 2014, 09:01 (2863 Views)
Zer0x 21 Apr 2014, 09:01 Post #1
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I've created this topic, because I think there are many people amoung you who are as interested in the technical aspects of HTTYD2 as I.

As you are no doubt aware, HTTYD2 will feature two new technologies developed by DreamWorks:
  • PREMO
This software will allow much more "subtlety, in facial animation, the sense of fat, jiggle, loose skin, the sensation of skin moving over muscle instead of masses moving together."
It based on the new LibEE engine which allows the animators with high end multi-threading computers to animate the characters in real time in full detail.

One of DW' senior character animators David Stodolny said about it:
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PREMO is being used for all movies from Dragons 2 and on. It's a pretty sweet software. I've never worked with anything so fast.

It's not a tool. It's full animation software. [...]

Here you can see a part of the LibEE software in action:



It's the graph on the left edge of the Cintique tablet.
The person in the foreground is 'Head of Character Animation' Simon Otto.

You can read a full article about this new software here:
http://www.multithreadingandvfx.org/cou ... ingTBB.pdf

  • Torch
I can't find any official informations about it, but if this software exists it is probably a lighting algorithm for Photon Mapping and Ray Tracing.
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N4raDov 21 Apr 2014, 09:36 Post #2
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This is really cool! Thanks for sharing!
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AndyMay 21 Apr 2014, 09:52 Post #3
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Dreamworks really are setting the standard for animation!
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kozmotisblack 21 Apr 2014, 14:11 Post #4
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My sight is really awful, but is that a wonderful looking graph editor to the side of the dragon Simon is animating?

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Zer0x 21 Apr 2014, 15:19 Post #5
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Tech Fact:

Subsurface Scattering wasn't used for Hiccups skin in the first movie, but now it is like you can see here:
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AndyMay 21 Apr 2014, 15:53 Post #6
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What is Subsurface Scattering?
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Zer0x 21 Apr 2014, 16:15 Post #7
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An effect which lets the light travel a short distance under the surface of an object before it gets reflected. You can see the effect better on these images:
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kozmotisblack 21 Apr 2014, 16:19 Post #8
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Reminds me when Legacy made skin molds for Rise of the Guardians.

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AndyMay 21 Apr 2014, 17:14 Post #9
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Ooh. That's pretty cool. Thanks for the info.
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barracuda 21 Apr 2014, 17:30 Post #10
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Who's afraid of the big, black bat?

Here's another info page with some screenshots. Premo has apparently also a build-in search engine.
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21 Apr 2014, 13:01
  • Torch
I can't find any official informations about it, but if this software exists it is probably a lighting algorithm for Photon Mapping and Ray Tracing.
I'm very sure it exists, at least it's listed here. There's also another software simply called LIGHT, but other than that it may have to do with lighting as well, I have no information about it.
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