Taz accounted for all the interactions between different strands while making sure that every curl held its shape. The team then spent three years developing a special simulator called Taz that'd be powerful enough to handle the 1,500 hand-placed curls on Merida's head. Pixar's first step was to build Merida's hair in layers, each with a different tightness of curl to get that natural-looking variation. If you unwound a strand of it, it would measure 4 feet in length.īut the simulation tech hadn't yet tackled the unique physics of curly hair, where each curl has a springlike structure but the overall movement of the hair is light and soft in a way that seems to defy gravity. Let's pick up where we left off in part one, with Merida's realistic-looking locks in 'Brave.'

So Pixar developed a whole new simulation system and digitally wrapped every joint with a layer of invisible fabric.Įvery single Pixar movie has pushed the boundaries of 3D animation with detailed work like this, from lighting food with two light sources to simulating realistic fur. Narrator: For this scene in 'Coco,' Pixar's computer kept getting Mamá Imelda's skirt caught between her skeleton joints.

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We break down the progress the studio has made in areas like cloth shading, volumetric clouds, character rigging, naturalistic movement, and and hair shading on human characters.This episode of 'Movies Insider' looks at how Pixar pushed the boundaries of computer animation with every one of its movies from 'Brave' to 'Luca.'.

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