Avatar: The Way of Hair, Cloth, and Coupled Simulation

Published in ACM SIGGRAPH Talks, 2023

Avatar: The Way of Hair, Cloth, and Coupled Simulation

Abstract

This talk presents CreLoki, an extension to the multi-physics framework Loki. It enables unified creatures physics, such as hair and cloth in wet, dry, and underwater contexts with predefined coupling modes. By maintaining a solver setup configuration that is general enough for every foreseeable use case, CreLoki avoids the most tedious and error-prone steps of scene configuration. CreLoki also offers users a familiar interface via an Autodesk Maya plugin without compromising quality, customizability, or extendability. We found that this tool encourages a broader adoption of unified physics among creature artists.

Recommended citation: Xiao Zhai, Eston Schweickart, Nikolay Ilinov, Joel Wretborn, Alexey Stomakhin, John Homer, Jefri Haryono, and Julian Butler. 2023. "Avatar: The Way of Hair, Cloth, and Coupled Simulation." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Talks, 1–2. SIGGRAPH ’23 61. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3587421.3595408.
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