MPC Film heads to SIGGRAPH 2015 to present crowd, fur, digi-doubles and destruction technology, presenting the company’s visual effects work on movies including ‘Terminator Genisys,’ ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings,’ ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ and ‘Cinderella.’
‘Terminator Genisys’
MPC’s Feature Film division is headed to SIGGRAPH 2015 to present crowd, fur, digi-doubles and destruction technology, presenting the company’s visual effects work on movies including Terminator Genisys, Exodus, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Cinderella.
Sunday, 9 August 10:45AM - 12:15PM
Crowds and Complexity: A Modular Crowd (n)Cloth System for Exodus: Gods and Kings
For “Exodus: Gods and Kings”, to simulate cloth on crowds of up to 200,000 agents, MPC changed the way the base meshes were made and implemented a modular crowd cloth system.
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 515AB
Monday, August 10 -- 9:00AM - 10:30AM
Capturing the World: Roundshot Pipeline at MPC
For Godzilla and many upcoming films at MPC, hundreds of panoramic images were acquired and a proper pipeline was needed to supply departments with quick previews and automated stitching.
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 403AB
Tuesday, August 11 -- 9:00AM - 10:30AM
Got ‘Bots: X-Men Days of Future Past: Directing a Highly Complex Shape-Shifting Sentinel
The Sentinel is covered with 100,000 blades and cannot be animated using traditional methods. The MPC team introduced the concept of follicles that approximated blade models and combined them into animate-able follicle-meshes from which particles were derived. These particles were then ingested by Katana, where this complex character was assembled.
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 515AB
Tuesday, August 11 -- 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Fabric in Production @ MPC
In this session MPC will go over the strategy of using Fabric Engine as the foundation for their VFX software. MPC will also give some concrete examples as to where it currently use Fabric in production and share some new direction they are taking with it.
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 405
Tuesday, August 11 -- 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Fabric for core development @ MPC
In this session MPC will cover more advanced used of Fabric Engine for Software teams and how the various Fabric Engine tools and frameworks can be used to build a solid foundation for VFX software. MPC will share tips and tricks and case study of KL used for VFX developers.
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 405
Tuesday, August 11 -- 2:45PM - 3:30PM
Exhibitor Session - Autodesk: MPC Presents – Bringing Arnold “back” for Terminator: Genisys
MPC VFX Supervisor Sheldon Stopsack will explain in detail how the team created the T-800 'young Arnold' digital character for Terminator Genisys.
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 408A
Wednesday, Aug 12 -- 12:40PM - 1:10PM
Best of GTC Theatre: Dekko: A framework for Real-Time Preview for VFX
In this session MPC will discuss the challenge and benefits of interactively visualizing large scenes in modern big budget VFX-driven movies. MPC will share some examples of the scale and complexity the experienced in their recent productions at MPC and the value of being able to visualize them without the need to go through long offline render processes. MPC will show initial results of the company’s work done using NVIDIA's Optix framework and Fabric Engine to assemble and render large scenes in an interactive environments taking advantage of the power of high end GPUs.
Exhibition floor, Booth 500
Thursday, August 13 -- 10:45AM - 12:30PM
I’ve Got you Covered -- Furtility: Robust Hair Styling
MPC improved a core component of its procedural fur-creation system to robustly handle hair styling on the increasing number of furry characters in its projects.
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 515AB
Thursday, August 13 -- 2:00PM - 3:30PM
Follow the Crowd: Destroying the Pharaoh’s Army - Large-Scale Dynamics in Exodus
MPC updated its in-house software and the underlying Bullet physics engine to handle hundreds of chariots, cavalry, and soldiers crashing, breaking, and tumbling down a collapsing mountain for Exodus: Gods and Kings.
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 515AB
Monday, August 10 -- 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Wednesday, August 12 -- 8:30PM - 10:30PM
Computer Animation Festival
The Electronic Theater showcases an eclectic mix of the finest work in computer graphics from the past 12 months and VFX breakdowns of some of MPC’s recent work will be screened.
Electronic Theatre, South Hall K
MPC is currently hiring for a number of roles -- visit www.moving-picture.com/join-us to learn more.
Source: MPC
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
