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FEATURE
Journey’s end

Making how the snow
interacted with fur
believable was a
particular challenge

The motion capture “We’ve been pushing the technology to the point
performances of
Terry notary and Where it becomes the sAme kind of tools if you
Steve Zahn are
rocket and Bad Ape Were mAking A live-Action film”
incorporated into

Joe letteri, Weta Digital senior Visual effects supervisor

were approximate. Now we and imperfections in the hair the Apes, we completely rewrote
have pushed that all into the pick up little micro reflections our hair shading model and went
software, which behaves as if you of sunlight,” states Weta Digital to a dual core shading model. It
were outside in the real world Visual Effects Supervisor, Dan models the cuticle but also the
photographing nature.” The Jungle Lemmon, who won an Academy medulla inside hair follicles,
Book provided an opportunity Award for his contributions to allowing us to get a more realistic
to field test proprietary renderer the live-action adaptation of the specular breakup.”
Manuka, which marked a transition Disney animated classic. “That was “On the first one it was hard
from spherical harmonics to ray something that our hair simulation enough to do the fur and get
tracing. “Often when fur is backlit didn’t model correctly. At the the simulations, interaction and
you get sparkly glints as the flex beginning of War for the Planet of reaction to the skin and lighting

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