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Improving crowd quality through interdepartmental collaboration on Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

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DigiPro '12: Proceedings of the Digital Production Symposium

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2370919.2370922

Published: 04 August 2012 Publication History

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For Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, DreamWorks Animation set itself the goal of creating crowds which rivaled our main characters in terms of quality of appearance and performance. A key component to our success was the tight collaboration between the Crowd and Character Technical Director departments. Working together, we were able to ensure our crowd characters looked as good as possible, and when problems arose, could solve them either in the Crowd or Character TD domains, whichever turned out to be more appropriate and most efficient.

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Ryu, D., and Kanyuk, P., 2007. Rivers of Rodents: An Animation-Centric Crowds Pipeline for "Ratatouille". ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 sketches, August.

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Improving crowd quality through interdepartmental collaboration on Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
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DigiPro '12: Proceedings of the Digital Production Symposium

August 2012

80 pages

ISBN:9781450316491

DOI:10.1145/2370919

Conference Chairs:
Armin Bruderlin
Sony Pictures Imageworks
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Ken Anjyo
OLM Digital, Inc.
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Program Chairs:
Eric Enderton
NVIDIA
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Larry Cutler
PDI/Dreamworks

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Dupin BLuzy GChaverou N(2024)Crowdabunga! The Crowd Challenges of TMNT: Mutant MayhemACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Talks10.1145/3641233.3664316(1-2)Online publication date: 18-Jul-2024
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Lindig N(2021)Creating Crowd Characters Through Procedural DeformationACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Posters10.1145/3450618.3469138(1-2)Online publication date: 5-Aug-2021
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Palachano NAllbeck JKapadia MBadler N(2016)ApplicationsSimulating Heterogeneous Crowd with Interactive Behaviors10.1201/9781315370071-13(215-234)Online publication date: 19-Oct-2016
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