Bungie's hair creation pipeline (for Destiny)

Bal

Bungie had a pretty cool talk about their hair production pipeline and tools at the last Siggraph, and they've finally put up their slides for it:
http://advances.realtimerendering.com/destiny/siggraph2014/heads/index.html

It's worth a look for anyone interested in trying to speed up hair production. The powerpoint file contains a few videos and more annotations than the PDF.
I wasn't able to read the videos directly in the powerpoint for some reason, I had to extract them (with 7zip), the first 4 show off the hair tools and are worth checking out I think.

EDIT: Also lots of stuff on their character assembling tool, shaders, and more, in the 250+ pages available here:
http://advances.realtimerendering.co...014/index.html

GlowingPotato

Thanks for sharing!

almighty_gir

awesome, thanks man =]

jermaineb

sweet

Pudd'nhead

Great! Thanks for the info

deohboeh

Thank you so much Bal!

Macrow

*grabs a snack*

Always curious to see what techniques other studios are using. Thanks Bal!

Froyok

Bal wrote: »

I wasn't able to read the videos directly in the powerpoint for some reason, I had to extract them (with 7zip), the first 4 show off the hair tools and are worth checking out I think.

I have too white videos over here, I'm wondering if it could be a codec problem. I didn't know that you could extract them, thanks !

almighty_gir

the hair salon tool they've created is absolutely gorgeous. i want it so bad...

it seems to combine the strengths of things like hairfarm, gmh2, and package them in a really nice artist friendly UI.

Xoliul

Reminds me again of this:



I just don't understand how they shipped with that Should've just gave her a different hair color if blonde was too hard to pull off.

Bal

almighty_gir, yeah it's mostly for that tool that I was so interested in getting the slides, we're looking into making something similar now.

Froyok, I opened them all fine with VLC, but they wouldn't load directly in Powerpoint.

Denny

Does anyone have a mirror for the downloads? The server doesn't support resume and disconnects constantly. I can't even get halfway through the download.

ElasticMango

Here's a nice list, what the tool actually does.
http://blog.digitaltutors.com/siggraph-2014-news-bungies-hair-salon-keeping-fabulous/

I would love to have something like that. Hair is the worst thing to create, when doing characters, imho.

almighty_gir

i'm interested in knowing the particular shader model they used for hair.

Bal

almighty_gir, there was another Destiny talk right before, but I don't remember exactly if they go into the details of the hair shader. Haven't had time to check the slides again, but you can see them here:
http://advances.realtimerendering.com/destiny/siggraph2014/index.html

EDIT: Just checked, they talk a bit about starting at around page 230. The character assembling tool stuff is pretty cool as well. Mmm, in retrospect, guess I'll add this link in the initial post as well!

Kurt Russell Fan Club

This is amazing content, thanks for sharing!!!

Xoliul wrote: »

Reminds me again of this:



I just don't understand how they shipped with that Should've just gave her a different hair color if blonde was too hard to pull off.

It surprises me that she's in the game. Most of the character art looks far, far better than this, but she's got obviously polygonal hair as well as the crappy bottle blonde colour

thomasp

more freaked out by her cross-eyed-ness personally.

the hair tool looks interesting though.