Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing [video]

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Post by adamnemecek » Sat, Aug 01, 2015, 6:23 PM UTC

Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing [video]
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Post by rndn » Sat, Aug 01, 2015, 10:22 PM UTC

Awesome. It would be great if Disney/Pixar would make more educational videos like this one.

Off-topic question: Why is this video unlisted?

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Post by gillianseed » Sat, Aug 01, 2015, 10:42 PM UTC

Good technical explanation, but why on earth not use a 3D rendition rather than this incredibly flat 2D rendition ?

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Post by amelius » Sat, Aug 01, 2015, 11:06 PM UTC

I'm wondering what the target audience for that clip was.

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Post by kuschku » Sat, Aug 01, 2015, 11:08 PM UTC

rndn wrote: post #2

Awesome. It would be great if Disney/Pixar would make more educational videos like this one. Off-topic question: Why is this video unlisted?

Disney actually has hundreds of these videos – they are just all unlisted.

Take a look at this site to see their papers and videos: http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/publications

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Post by duaneb » Sat, Aug 01, 2015, 11:28 PM UTC

rndn wrote: post #2

Awesome. It would be great if Disney/Pixar would make more educational videos like this one. Off-topic question: Why is this video unlisted?

I would bet that these are not flagged as media/marketing material and are thus not listed.

Kind of odd, but I could see an argument being made against confusion of their clientele.

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Post by mdanger007 » Sat, Aug 01, 2015, 11:55 PM UTC

gillianseed wrote: post #3

Good technical explanation, but why on earth not use a 3D rendition rather than this incredibly flat 2D rendition ?

Probably because it was rendered in AfterEffects, which is a quick and easy way to make animations.

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Post by ericjang » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 12:06 AM UTC

Great video. I think this should be shown at the beginning of every introductory computer graphics course.

For a nice overview of Disney's proprietary Hyperion renderer that implements this light bundling technique (and a whole lot more), see : http://www.fxguide.com/featured/disneys-new-production-rende...

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Post by bhouston » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 12:22 AM UTC

Source for this video with more information:

http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/innovations/hyperi...

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 1:01 AM UTC

Fabulous.

This reminds me very much of one of my favorite Disney videos that I showed my daughter long ago. It's this clip of four very talented cell animators out practicing their Art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JK9uQNBDxQ

The whole thing is whimsical while also being very educating. Really glad that Disney is keeping this kind of stuff up.