DISNEY ANIMATION
DISNEY ANIMATION CAREERS
SIGGRAPH 2023
Mike Navarro
The Pando Thrower is a weapon of great importance in Disney's Strange World. The explosive Pando fuel mixture is expelled with turbulent, fluid-like motion, with branching arcs of lightning and the electrifying presence of high energy particles. During effects development, previous stylization methods were improved and ex- panded to enable the combination of distinctly different natural phenomena into a single fantastical effect. In this talk, we present our use of Neural Style Transfer (NST) to reshape volume simula- tions into lightning-laced electrical reactions.