VFX Good Night Reading

Curated collection of good reading about VFX and CG. Mostly TD-level stuff, but not too hardcore.

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• paper (134)
• presentation (48)
• thesis (49)
• video (2)

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• al (2)
• bournemouth (21)
• clemson (10)
• dd (2)
• disney (15)
• dneg (4)
• dwa (16)
• framestore (1)
• houdini (49)
• ilm (6)
• method (2)
• mpc (13)
• nvidia (6)
• pixar (19)
• r&h (5)
• scad (9)
• spi (9)
• tdforum (10)
• weta (10)

Categories

• Abstract (3)
• Animation (13)
• Biology & Trees (11)
• CFX (2)
• CG (10)
• Case studies (9)
• Cities (1)
• Coding (11)
• Colors (10)
• Computer Vision (1)
• Crowds (12)
• Deep comp (2)
• Environments (5)
• Erosion (3)
• FEM (2)
• FX (60)
• Fluids (25)
• Fractals (3)
• Fur & Feathers (7)
• History (3)
• Lighting & Rendering (62)
• Liquids (25)
• Machine Learning (7)
• Maths (15)
• Misc. (2)
• Motion Capture (2)
• Oceans (4)
• PBD (3)
• Photogrammetry (2)
• Pipeline (22)
• Production (5)
• RBD (12)
• Realtime (35)
• Rigging (13)
• Set (4)
• Shading (29)
• Stereo (1)
• USD (5)
• Unreal Engine (3)
• VR (3)
• Volumetrics (47)

List

Abstract

• APPLICATION OF 3D PROCEDURAL ANIMATION TO THE VISUAL PRESENTATION OF MUSIC thesis houdini scad
• Creating Abstract Motion Sculptures Through Simulation thesis clemson
• Using Visual Effects as a Creative Tool for Contemporary Art thesis houdini scad

Animation

• Achieving Real-Time Playback with Production Rigs paper disney
• AutoSpline: animation controls only when and where you need them paper pixar
• Dear angelica: breathing life into VR illustrations paper houdini
• Designing an interaction with an octopus paper pixar
• Implicit skinning: real-time skin deformation with contact modeling paper
• MoSh: Motion and Shape Capture from Sparse Markers paper
• Procedural wrinkles generation in the implicit skinning framework paper bournemouth mpc
• Robust solving of optical motion capture data by denoising paper
• Self-similarity Analysis for Motion Capture Cleaning paper
• Sketch to pose in Pixar's presto animation system paper pixar
• Smooth Skinning Decomposition with Rigid Bones paper
• Total Moving Face Reconstruction paper
• Warping the space around an animated object paper mpc

Biology & Trees

• A STUDY OF PROCEDURAL GROWTH ALGORITHMS AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN HOUDINI thesis bournemouth houdini
• A hybrid approach to procedural tree skeletonization paper houdini pixar
• Algorithmic Beauty Of Plants book
• Applying aggregation over 3D surfaces thesis bournemouth houdini
• Art-directing Disney's Tangled Procedural Trees paper disney
• Art-directing procedural vegetation in Houdini using a space colonization algorithm thesis bournemouth houdini
• Modeling Trees with a Space Colonization Algorithm paper
• Modeling and visualization of leaf venation patterns paper
• PROCEDURAL GENERATION AND RENDERING OF TREES AND LANDSCAPES IN THE STYLE OF EYVIND EARLE thesis
• Simulation of Morphology Changes in Drying Leaves paper
• The Jungle Book: art-directing procedural scatters in rich environments paper mpc

CFX

• A position-based dynamics system for animated character effects paper dwa
• Position Based Dynamics for Character Effects thesis bournemouth houdini

CG

• 3D Math Primer for Graphics andGame Development book
• Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques book
• Computer Graphics - Principles and Practice, 3rd edition book
• Fundamentals of Computer Graphics 3rd ed. book
• Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming book
• Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics book
• Mathematics for Computer Graphics (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science) book
• Physically Based Rendering FROM THEORY TO IMPLEMENTATION book
• Texturing and Modeling, Third Edition: A Procedural Approach book
• The CG Cinematography book

Case studies

• APES & BLOCKS OF FOAM presentation tdforum
• Dear angelica: breathing life into VR illustrations paper houdini
• Fido overview presentation
• Forging a new animation pipeline with USD paper al
• Huawei Pegasus & Free Radio 'Hamster' presentation tdforum
• Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU presentation
• The LEGO movie: bricks, bricks and more bricks paper
• Walter: an open source VFX framework for USD and alembic paper houdini
• Zero to USD in 80 days paper dwa

Cities

• Procedural City Generation and Techniques for Game Designers thesis houdini scad

Coding

• CGAL: the computational geometry algorithms library paper
• Dive Into Python Python from novice to pro book
• Extending Houdini with HDK presentation houdini
• Game AI Pro book
• Getting started with webGL and three.js presentation nvidia
• Learning OpenCV book
• Programming Computer Vision with Python book
• Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU presentation
• State-of-the-art webGL 2.0 presentation nvidia
• Supercharge Houdini with Python presentation houdini
• libigl: prototyping geometry processing research in C++ paper

Colors

• APPLYING COLOR THEORY TO DIGITAL MEDIA & VISUALIZATION presentation
• Cinematic Color - Visual Effects Society paper
• Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema book
• Color in advanced displays: HDR, OLED, AR & VR presentation
• Fundamentals of color science paper
• OpenColorIO Open Source Color Pipeline presentation tdforum
• OpenColorIO and its usage with The Academy Color Encoding Specification (ACES) in a modern visual effects pipeline thesis
• Procedural Fluid Textures paper
• The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction book
• The CG Cinematography book

Computer Vision

• Programming Computer Vision with Python book

Crowds

• A System For Crowd Rendering paper mpc
• Art Directed Ant Crowd Simulation in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• CrAM: artist-friendly crowds on "Edge of Tomorrow" paper spi
• Creating the flying armadas in Guardians of the Galaxy paper mpc
• Flexible pipeline for crowd production paper dneg houdini
• Flocking system mimicking fish school behaviours thesis bournemouth
• Game AI Pro book
• Real-time Simulation and Rendering of Large-scale Crowd Motion thesis
• SCALABLE, CONTROLLABLE, EFFICIENT AND CONVINCING CROWD SIMULATION thesis
• Simulation, Animation and Rendering of Crowds in Real-Time thesis
• Stadium Crowd Tool in Houdini with Key-Frameable Motion Controls thesis houdini scad
• Walking Penguins Crowd Simulation thesis bournemouth

Deep comp

• Deep Image Compositing @ Nordic TDForum 2011 presentation tdforum
• Deep image compositing in a modern visual effects pipeline thesis

Environments

• Building detailed fractal sets for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" paper al houdini
• Graduation report: Procedural environmental design thesis
• PROCEDURAL GENERATION AND RENDERING OF TREES AND LANDSCAPES IN THE STYLE OF EYVIND EARLE thesis
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Jedha destruction paper houdini ilm
• The Jungle Book: art-directing procedural scatters in rich environments paper mpc

Erosion

• Fast Hydraulic Erosion Simulation and Visualization on GPU paper
• Fast Hydraulic and Thermal Erosion on the GPU paper
• Realtime Procedural Terrain Generation paper

FEM

• Integrating FEA physics in a non-linear workflow for "Edge of Tomorrow" paper spi
• Kali: High Quality FEM Destruction in Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch paper mpc

FX

• 3D Particle in Cell / Fluid Implicit Particle Fluid Solver using OpenMP directives thesis bournemouth houdini
• A Fluid Implicit Particle Approach to a Pyro Solver in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• A Multiscale Approach to Mesh-based Surface Tension Flows paper
• A Programmable System for Artistic Volumetric Lighting paper disney
• A STUDY OF PROCEDURAL GROWTH ALGORITHMS AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN HOUDINI thesis bournemouth houdini
• A hybrid approach to procedural tree skeletonization paper houdini pixar
• ART DIRECTABLE TORNADOES thesis houdini
• Adaptive Nonlinearity for Collisions in Complex Rod Assemblies paper disney weta
• Adaptive tearing and cracking of thin sheets paper
• Applying aggregation over 3D surfaces thesis bournemouth houdini
• Art directing particle flows with custom vector fields paper r&h
• Art directing rigid body dynamics as a post-process paper dwa
• Avalanche! snowy FX for XXX paper dd
• Building detailed fractal sets for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" paper al houdini
• Capturing Thin Features in Smoke Simulations paper spi
• Cloud Modeling and Rendering for 'Puss In Boots' paper dwa
• Controlling Fluid Simulations with Custom Fields in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• Coupling 3D eulerian, heightfield and particle methods for interactive simulation of large scale liquid phenomena paper nvidia
• Creating realistic CG honey paper dwa
• Creation of a Procedural Crack Generation Tool thesis bournemouth houdini
• Diffusion Limited Aggregation Inside 3D Models thesis bournemouth houdini
• Efficient and Seamless Volumetric Fracturing paper dwa
• Environmental FX for Multiple Productions thesis clemson
• Fluid simulation In a visual effects context presentation
• Frozen on ice: rendering frost and ice on Frozen paper disney
• GETTING SANDY: CREATING COLLAPSING SAND EFFECTS FOR AN ODE TO LOVE thesis clemson
• Geometric fracture modeling in BOLT paper disney
• I Love It When A Cloud Comes Together paper r&h
• Implementation of Artistic Curly Hair Dynamics in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• Jack's Frost: Controllable Magic Frost Simulations for 'Rise of the Guardians' paper houdini
• Jam: Major Project Report Peter Claes thesis bournemouth houdini
• Keyframe Control of Smoke Simulations paper
• Large Scale Simulation and Surfacing of Water and Ice Effects in Dragons 2 paper dwa
• Levelsets in Production: Spider-Man 3 paper spi
• Moana: Foundation of a Lava Monster paper disney houdini
• Modeling and Animating Gases with Simulation Features paper
• Narrow Band FLIP for Liquid Simulations paper
• Nubis: Authoring Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes with the Decima Engine presentation
• OpenGL GPU Features and SPH Fluid thesis bournemouth
• Particle Expansion Tool thesis houdini scad
• Physical Simulation of Fire and Smoke Masters Thesis thesis bournemouth houdini
• Position Based Fluid thesis bournemouth houdini
• Procedural Fluid Textures paper
• Racing to the finish line: effects challenges on Cars 3 paper houdini pixar
• Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games paper
• Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes of Horizon Zero Dawn presentation
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Jedha destruction paper houdini ilm
• SIMULATION OF THE MIXING OF INK AND WATER IN HOUDINI thesis clemson houdini
• Screen Space Fluid Rendering for Games paper nvidia
• Shaping particle simulations with interaction forces paper dwa
• Smooth Skinning Decomposition with Rigid Bones paper
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi - effects simulation paper houdini ilm
• THE EXPLOSION EFFECT- A Custom Volume FX Production Pipeline thesis clemson houdini
• Target-Driven Smoke Animation paper
• The effects of The Jungle Book paper houdini mpc
• The water effects of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales paper houdini mpc
• Volume Rendering for Visual Effects presentation
• Vortex of Awesomeness paper dwa
• Wrath of the Titans: complex models with voxel greeble paper method
• Wrath of the Titans: creating CG lava with advected sculpts paper method

Fluids

• 3D Particle in Cell / Fluid Implicit Particle Fluid Solver using OpenMP directives thesis bournemouth houdini
• A Fluid Implicit Particle Approach to a Pyro Solver in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• A Technique for Art Direction of Physically Based Fire Simulation thesis clemson
• ART DIRECTABLE TORNADOES thesis houdini
• Art directing particle flows with custom vector fields paper r&h
• Avalanche! snowy FX for XXX paper dd
• Capturing Thin Features in Smoke Simulations paper spi
• Controlling Fluid Simulations with Custom Fields in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• Fluid simulation In a visual effects context presentation
• I Love It When A Cloud Comes Together paper r&h
• Keyframe Control of Smoke Simulations paper
• Moana: Foundation of a Lava Monster paper disney houdini
• Modeling and Animating Gases with Simulation Features paper
• Nubis: Authoring Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes with the Decima Engine presentation
• Physical Simulation of Fire and Smoke Masters Thesis thesis bournemouth houdini
• Racing to the finish line: effects challenges on Cars 3 paper houdini pixar
• Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games paper
• Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes of Horizon Zero Dawn presentation
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Jedha destruction paper houdini ilm
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi - effects simulation paper houdini ilm
• Target-Driven Smoke Animation paper
• The Implementation of 2D Fluid Solver plugin for Houdini8.0 thesis bournemouth houdini
• The effects of The Jungle Book paper houdini mpc
• The water effects of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales paper houdini mpc
• Volume Rendering for Visual Effects presentation

Fractals

• Building detailed fractal sets for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" paper al houdini
• Fractal anatomy: imaging internal and ambient structures paper
• Fractal multiverses in VR paper framestore

Fur & Feathers

• Adaptive Nonlinearity for Collisions in Complex Rod Assemblies paper disney weta
• An Energy-Conserving Hair Reflectance Model paper weta
• Building Efficient Fur Pipeline for a Low Cost Production of Creature-based Feature Film paper
• Feathers for Mystical Creatures: Creating Pegasus for Clash of the Titans paper mpc
• Furtility: Dynamic Grooming for Wolfman paper mpc
• Implementation of Artistic Curly Hair Dynamics in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• Volumetric Methods for Simulation and Rendering of Hair paper pixar

History

• Brief History of Special Effects in Film presentation
• Fido overview presentation
• SFX - Tricks of the Trade The Beginning 1895-2006 paper

Lighting & Rendering

• 3D Fractal Flame Wisps thesis clemson
• A Comprehensive Framework for Rendering Layered Materials paper weta
• A System For Crowd Rendering paper mpc
• Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques book
• Advanced RenderMan 2: To RI_INFINITY and Beyond SIGGRAPH 2000 Course paper disney pixar spi
• Advanced Scenegraph Rendering Pipeline presentation
• An Artist-Friendly Workflow for Panoramic HDRI presentation
• An Energy-Conserving Hair Reflectance Model paper weta
• Background: Physics and Math of Shading paper
• Building Efficient Fur Pipeline for a Low Cost Production of Creature-based Feature Film paper
• Building detailed fractal sets for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" paper al houdini
• CLOUDS AND RIMS presentation tdforum
• Camera Space Volumetric Shadows paper weta
• Capture Color and Depth From All Around of A Live Set thesis scad
• Capturing the infinite universe in "Lucy": fractal rendering in film production paper ilm
• Cloud Modeling and Rendering for 'Puss In Boots' paper dwa
• Cloudy with a chance of rendering paper mpc
• Dear angelica: breathing life into VR illustrations paper houdini
• Effective Toon-Style Rendering Control Using Scalar Fields paper pixar
• Fully automatic ID mattes with support for motion blur and transparency paper
• Gaffer: an open-source application framework for VFX paper [video]
• Geometry into Shading paper pixar
• Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice book
• HYDRA Pixar's Real-Time Render Engine for Feature Film Assets presentation pixar
• High-contrast Computational Caustic Design paper
• Instant Points: Fast Rendering of Unprocessed Point Clouds paper
• Interactive Lighting of Effects Using Point Clouds in "BOLT" presentation disney
• Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming book
• MANIFOLD NEXT EVENT ESTIMATION presentation weta
• Machine learning and rendering paper disney nvidia
• Manifold Exploration: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique for Rendering Scenes with Difficult Specular Transport paper
• Measuring and Modeling the Appearance of Finished Wood paper
• Multiple-Scattering Microfacet BSDFs with the Smith Model paper
• Nubis: Authoring Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes with the Decima Engine presentation
• PROCEDURAL GENERATION AND RENDERING OF TREES AND LANDSCAPES IN THE STYLE OF EYVIND EARLE thesis
• Parallel Processing within a Host Application presentation disney
• Photogrammetry Workflow book [video]
• Physically Based Rendering FROM THEORY TO IMPLEMENTATION book
• Point-Based Approximate Color Bleeding paper pixar
• Point-Based Color Bleeding presentation pixar
• Point-Based Global Illumination for Movie Production paper pixar
• Production Volume Rendering: Design and Implementation book
• Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes of Horizon Zero Dawn presentation
• Real-World Measurements for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare paper
• Realistic, Hardware-accelerated Shading and Lighting paper
• Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU presentation
• Renderman Point Based Effects Lighting Approach thesis houdini scad
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Jedha destruction paper houdini ilm
• Screen Space Fluid Rendering for Games paper nvidia
• Separable Subsurface Scattering paper
• Sky Browser: Search for HDR Sky Maps paper weta
• Spherical Harmonic Lighting: The Gritty Details paper
• Stupid Spherical Harmonics (SH) Tricks paper
• Technical Art of Uncharted 4 presentation
• The CG Cinematography book
• The Path to Path-Traced Movies paper pixar
• The path tracing revolution in the movie industry presentation disney nvidia pixar weta
• The water effects of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales paper houdini mpc
• Using raycasting in GPU shaders to enhance real-time graphics thesis
• Visualizing Astronomical Data in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• Volume Rendering for Visual Effects presentation
• Volumetric Methods for Simulation and Rendering of Hair paper pixar

Liquids

• A Fluid Implicit Particle (FLIP) Solver Built in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• A Multiscale Approach to Mesh-based Surface Tension Flows paper
• Art Directed Fluid Flow With Secondary Water Effects thesis
• Combining Rigid and Fluid Motion Using Point Clouds and FLIP Fluids thesis houdini scad
• Coupling 3D eulerian, heightfield and particle methods for interactive simulation of large scale liquid phenomena paper nvidia
• Creating realistic CG honey paper dwa
• Highly Detailed Fluid Simulations on the GPU presentation
• Interactive Water Surfaces paper r&h
• Jam: Major Project Report Peter Claes thesis bournemouth houdini
• Large Scale Simulation and Surfacing of Water and Ice Effects in Dragons 2 paper dwa
• Narrow Band FLIP for Liquid Simulations paper
• OpenGL GPU Features and SPH Fluid thesis bournemouth
• Packing the water pipe paper dneg
• Position Based Fluid thesis bournemouth houdini
• Racing to the finish line: effects challenges on Cars 3 paper houdini pixar
• Rat-Sized Water Effects in Ratatouille paper pixar
• SIMULATION OF THE MIXING OF INK AND WATER IN HOUDINI thesis clemson houdini
• SPH Fluid simulation presentation
• Screen Space Fluid Rendering for Games paper nvidia
• Shaping particle simulations with interaction forces paper dwa
• Simulating Whitewater Rapids in Ratatouille paper pixar
• Tangled Choreographing Destruction: Art Directing a Dam Break paper disney
• The effects of The Jungle Book paper houdini mpc
• The water effects of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales paper houdini mpc
• Wrath of the Titans: creating CG lava with advected sculpts paper method

Machine Learning

• Big data visual analytics: fundamentals, techniques, and tools presentation
• Deep Learning book
• Deep learning: a crash course presentation
• Machine learning and rendering paper disney nvidia
• Programming Computer Vision with Python book
• Robust solving of optical motion capture data by denoising paper
• Self-similarity Analysis for Motion Capture Cleaning paper

Maths

• 3D Math Primer for Graphics andGame Development book
• An elementary introduction to matrix exponential for CG paper
• Big data visual analytics: fundamentals, techniques, and tools presentation
• CGAL: the computational geometry algorithms library paper
• Color in advanced displays: HDR, OLED, AR & VR presentation
• Deep Learning book
• Deep learning: a crash course presentation
• Fundamentals of color science paper
• Getting started with webGL and three.js presentation nvidia
• Machine learning and rendering paper disney nvidia
• Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics book
• Mathematics for Computer Graphics (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science) book
• Programming Computer Vision with Python book
• State-of-the-art webGL 2.0 presentation nvidia
• libigl: prototyping geometry processing research in C++ paper

Misc.

• Procedural Generation of Rock Piles using Aperiodic Tiling paper
• Total Moving Face Reconstruction paper

Motion Capture

• Robust solving of optical motion capture data by denoising paper
• Self-similarity Analysis for Motion Capture Cleaning paper

Oceans

• A VFX ocean toolkit with real time preview thesis
• Creating oceans using math presentation
• Empirical directional wave spectra for computer graphics paper
• The water effects of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales paper houdini mpc

PBD

• A position-based dynamics system for animated character effects paper dwa
• Position Based Dynamics for Character Effects thesis bournemouth houdini
• Position Based Fluid thesis bournemouth houdini

Photogrammetry

• An Artist-Friendly Workflow for Panoramic HDRI presentation
• Photogrammetry Workflow book [video]

Pipeline

• A Pipeline for 800+ shots paper mpc
• Advanced Scenegraph Rendering Pipeline presentation
• BUILDING AND LEVERAGING A CROSS PLATFORM VFX/ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT presentation tdforum
• Can We Solve the Pipeline Problem? paper weta
• Cloudy with a chance of rendering paper mpc
• Cortex Open Source Framework video
• Developing a unified pipeline with character paper
• Extending Houdini with HDK presentation houdini
• Flexible pipeline for crowd production paper dneg houdini
• Forging a new animation pipeline with USD paper al
• Fully automatic ID mattes with support for motion blur and transparency paper
• Gaffer: an open-source application framework for VFX paper [video]
• HYDRA Pixar's Real-Time Render Engine for Feature Film Assets presentation pixar
• Large scale VFX pipelines paper weta
• Managing thousands of assets for the Prince of Persia city of Alamut paper mpc
• Packing the water pipe paper dneg
• Parallel Processing within a Host Application presentation disney
• Supercharge Houdini with Python presentation houdini
• USD-Based Pipeline (2016) video
• Universal Scene Description presentation pixar
• Walter: an open source VFX framework for USD and alembic paper houdini
• Zero to USD in 80 days paper dwa

Production

• CG 101 CG/VFX Production Theory presentation tdforum
• Complexity, Productivity, Efficiency and Cost in Digital Production presentation tdforum
• Fido overview presentation
• Outsourcing And Its Pipes presentation tdforum
• SFX - Tricks of the Trade 2009 presentation

RBD

• Accelerating Rigid Body Simulationon Today's GPUs presentation
• An Object-Level Destruction Tool in Houdini thesis houdini scad
• Art directing rigid body dynamics as a post-process paper dwa
• Authoring destruction with the Dynamica Bullet Maya plugin presentation disney
• Avatar : Bending Rigid Bodies paper ilm
• Course introduction and overview of destruction and dynamics techniques presentation
• Destruction System paper ilm
• Elastic and Plastic Deformations with Rigid Body Dynamics paper dwa
• Procedural Methods For Large Scale Destruction presentation dd dwa
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Jedha destruction paper houdini ilm
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi - effects simulation paper houdini ilm
• Transformers 2: Breaking Buildings paper ilm

Realtime

• A VFX ocean toolkit with real time preview thesis
• Accelerating Rigid Body Simulationon Today's GPUs presentation
• Achieving Real-Time Playback with Production Rigs paper disney
• An Artist-Friendly Workflow for Panoramic HDRI presentation
• Coupling 3D eulerian, heightfield and particle methods for interactive simulation of large scale liquid phenomena paper nvidia
• Dear angelica: breathing life into VR illustrations paper houdini
• Fast Hydraulic Erosion Simulation and Visualization on GPU paper
• Fast Hydraulic and Thermal Erosion on the GPU paper
• Fractal multiverses in VR paper framestore
• Getting started with webGL and three.js presentation nvidia
• Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice book
• HYDRA Pixar's Real-Time Render Engine for Feature Film Assets presentation pixar
• Highly Detailed Fluid Simulations on the GPU presentation
• Interactive Water Surfaces paper r&h
• Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming book
• Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics book
• Nubis: Authoring Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes with the Decima Engine presentation
• OpenGL GPU Features and SPH Fluid thesis bournemouth
• Parallel Processing within a Host Application presentation disney
• Photogrammetry Workflow book [video]
• Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games paper
• Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes of Horizon Zero Dawn presentation
• Real-World Measurements for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare paper
• Real-time Simulation and Rendering of Large-scale Crowd Motion thesis
• Realtime Procedural Terrain Generation paper
• Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU presentation
• Screen Space Fluid Rendering for Games paper nvidia
• Simulation, Animation and Rendering of Crowds in Real-Time thesis
• Smooth Skinning Decomposition with Rigid Bones paper
• State-of-the-art webGL 2.0 presentation nvidia
• Technical Art of Uncharted 4 presentation
• Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials book
• Unreal Engine 4-Beginners Crash Course v1 book
• Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints book
• Using raycasting in GPU shaders to enhance real-time graphics thesis

Rigging

• A hybrid approach to procedural tree skeletonization paper houdini pixar
• Achieving Real-Time Playback with Production Rigs paper disney
• AutoSpline: animation controls only when and where you need them paper pixar
• Character Rigging, Deformations, and Simulations in Film and Game Production paper dwa
• Designing an interaction with an octopus paper pixar
• Implicit skinning: real-time skin deformation with contact modeling paper
• MoSh: Motion and Shape Capture from Sparse Markers paper
• Parallel Processing within a Host Application presentation disney
• Procedural wrinkles generation in the implicit skinning framework paper bournemouth mpc
• Rigging Octopuses in Penguins of Madagascar paper dwa
• Sketch to pose in Pixar's presto animation system paper pixar
• Smooth Skinning Decomposition with Rigid Bones paper
• Total Moving Face Reconstruction paper

Set

• An Artist-Friendly Workflow for Panoramic HDRI presentation
• Capture Color and Depth From All Around of A Live Set thesis scad
• Photogrammetry Workflow book [video]
• Real-World Measurements for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare paper

Shading

• A Comprehensive Framework for Rendering Layered Materials paper weta
• Advanced RenderMan 2: To RI_INFINITY and Beyond SIGGRAPH 2000 Course paper disney pixar spi
• An Energy-Conserving Hair Reflectance Model paper weta
• Arnold Shaders Tutorial - Solid Angle paper
• Background: Physics and Math of Shading paper
• Dear angelica: breathing life into VR illustrations paper houdini
• Effective Toon-Style Rendering Control Using Scalar Fields paper pixar
• Geometry into Shading paper pixar
• Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice book
• MANIFOLD NEXT EVENT ESTIMATION presentation weta
• Manifold Exploration: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique for Rendering Scenes with Difficult Specular Transport paper
• Measuring and Modeling the Appearance of Finished Wood paper
• Multiple-Scattering Microfacet BSDFs with the Smith Model paper
• Nubis: Authoring Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes with the Decima Engine presentation
• Photogrammetry Workflow book [video]
• Procedural Fluid Textures paper
• Procedural wrinkles generation in the implicit skinning framework paper bournemouth mpc
• Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes of Horizon Zero Dawn presentation
• Realistic, Hardware-accelerated Shading and Lighting paper
• Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU presentation
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Jedha destruction paper houdini ilm
• Screen Space Fluid Rendering for Games paper nvidia
• Separable Subsurface Scattering paper
• Skin Microstructure Deformation with Displacement Map Convolution paper
• Texturing and Modeling, Third Edition: A Procedural Approach book
• The Path to Path-Traced Movies paper pixar
• The Rusterizer: An Art-Directable and Semi-Procedural Tool for Generating Rust Surfaces thesis clemson
• The path tracing revolution in the movie industry presentation disney nvidia pixar weta
• Using raycasting in GPU shaders to enhance real-time graphics thesis

Stereo

• Seminar on Stereoscopic Production for Computer Animation presentation tdforum

USD

• Forging a new animation pipeline with USD paper al
• USD-Based Pipeline (2016) video
• Universal Scene Description presentation pixar
• Walter: an open source VFX framework for USD and alembic paper houdini
• Zero to USD in 80 days paper dwa

Unreal Engine

• Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials book
• Unreal Engine 4-Beginners Crash Course v1 book
• Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints book

VR

• Color in advanced displays: HDR, OLED, AR & VR presentation
• Dear angelica: breathing life into VR illustrations paper houdini
• Fractal multiverses in VR paper framestore

Volumetrics

• 3D Fractal Flame Wisps thesis clemson
• 3D Particle in Cell / Fluid Implicit Particle Fluid Solver using OpenMP directives thesis bournemouth houdini
• A Fluid Implicit Particle Approach to a Pyro Solver in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• A Technique for Art Direction of Physically Based Fire Simulation thesis clemson
• ART DIRECTABLE TORNADOES thesis houdini
• Advanced Applications of OpenVDB in Production presentation houdini
• Art directing particle flows with custom vector fields paper r&h
• Avalanche! snowy FX for XXX paper dd
• CLOUDS AND RIMS presentation tdforum
• Camera Space Volumetric Shadows paper weta
• Capturing Thin Features in Smoke Simulations paper spi
• Cloud Modeling and Rendering for 'Puss In Boots' paper dwa
• Controlling Fluid Simulations with Custom Fields in Houdini thesis bournemouth houdini
• DIGITAL DOMAIN OPENVDB ADOPTION presentation houdini
• Efficient and Seamless Volumetric Fracturing paper dwa
• FLUID SIMULATION SIGGRAPH 2007 Course Notes paper
• Fluid simulation In a visual effects context presentation
• I Love It When A Cloud Comes Together paper r&h
• Keyframe Control of Smoke Simulations paper
• MARCHING CUBES: A HIGH RESOLUTION 3D SURFACE CONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM paper
• Moana: Foundation of a Lava Monster paper disney houdini
• Modeling and Animating Gases with Simulation Features paper
• Narrow Band FLIP for Liquid Simulations paper
• Nubis: Authoring Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes with the Decima Engine presentation
• OpenVDB at DWA presentation houdini
• OpenVDB in Houdini presentation houdini
• OpenVDB toolset presentation houdini
• Physical Simulation of Fire and Smoke Masters Thesis thesis bournemouth houdini
• Production Volume Rendering Fundamentals SIGGRAPH 2011 Course Notes paper dwa spi
• Production Volume Rendering SIGGRAPH 2017 Course paper disney pixar spi
• Production Volume Rendering Systems SIGGRAPH 2011 Course Notes paper clemson dneg dwa houdini r&h spi weta
• Production Volume Rendering: Design and Implementation book
• Racing to the finish line: effects challenges on Cars 3 paper houdini pixar
• Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games paper
• Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes of Horizon Zero Dawn presentation
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Jedha destruction paper houdini ilm
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi - effects simulation paper houdini ilm
• THE EXPLOSION EFFECT- A Custom Volume FX Production Pipeline thesis clemson houdini
• Target-Driven Smoke Animation paper
• The Implementation of 2D Fluid Solver plugin for Houdini8.0 thesis bournemouth houdini
• The effects of The Jungle Book paper houdini mpc
• Volume Rendering for Visual Effects presentation
• Volumetric Cloud Rendering: An Animation of Clouds thesis clemson
• Volumetric Methods for Simulation and Rendering of Hair paper pixar
• Volumetric Methods in Visual Effects SIGGRAPH 2010 Course Notes paper dneg dwa houdini r&h spi
• Volumetric dense mesh deformation in the Tengu Monk fight paper
• Vortex of Awesomeness paper dwa

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to this project by creating pull requests or by buying me a beer :).

Adding new entries

• Create virtual environment

  $ python3 -m venv venv
  

• Activate it

  $ source venv/bin/activate
  

• Install dependencies

  $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Edit library.yml to add new entries

• Run code quality checks and re-generate README.md

  $ make
  

  • You can run code checks only with

    $ make check
    

  • Or re-generate README.md only with

    $ make generate
    

  • Alternatively re-generate README.md without make

    $ python generate.py
    

• Done!