Blog 01

The animated movie Soul by Pixar. I really enjoyed the scenes where the protagonist plays the piano, and how engaging and real the whole experience was despite it having many unrealistic character designs. The movie took 4 years to make but the studio has been developing its character animation and modeling system for decades longer. Pixar is especially known for creating its own software and system mapping out motions from videos and manually mapping the character’s body parts and movements. I think the attention to detail from sweater fuzz to the various hand muscles that move when playing an instrument and being able to incorporate that in an animation movie is super cool and would allow future generations to have a really immersive imagination and movie-watching experience.

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