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Wow, this actually makes me want to go watch Moana. Great to see collaboration between big animation studios and the open-source software community. Also, Matt'
by aorth 8y ago
Wow, this actually makes me want to go watch Moana. Great to see collaboration between big animation studios and the open-source software community. Also, Matt's analysis of his own code is unabashed and honest. In the end he managed to make some solid performance wins for pbrt!
- KaiserPro 8y agoyou _should_ watch Moana, its a great movie with fun music. then watch it a second time for the animation and rendering....
- Angostura 8y agoThen watch it with the Director's commentary, which has fun nuggets like Maui spends a lot of time in the film with his hair tied up, because his unencumbered hair proved very expensive to render.
- laken 8y agoThey also originally made Maui bald (for that same reason: cost), but their cultural consultants said it may be offensive to native Polynesians, as Maui was known for his long hair.