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1- What is an animation
2- Persistence of vision
3- Types of Animation
4- 2D animation pipeline
5- 3D animation pipeline
6- 2D and 3D animation difference
7- Animation principles
1. Making of The Superpunch
Presented at Imagina’04 by
George Borshukov, ESC Entertainment
Introduction
The Superpunch is the final punch Neo that delivers to Agent Smith
in the final installment of The Matrix trilogy during the film’s last
face-off. It was the first shot that the directors Larry and Andy
Wachowski and their conceptual designer storyboarded for the
sequels. (The shot’s storyboards were also the first storyboards to
leak out on the Internet back in Spring 2000). The Superpunch was
meant to show, in familiar Bullet Time, the event of Neo’s super-
powerful last punch that occurs over a fraction of a second and lands
on Smith’s face deforming it in a surreal, anime-like fashion. As a
Bullet Time shot, it was to feature an impossible virtual camera yet
it had to look real. The nature of the push-in camera move and the
requirement of punching someone with an inhumanly strong force
meant that the original multiple still camera rig approach could not
be deployed. The shot went through many different stages of
visualizations, breakdowns, and considerations. The Superpunch
became even more challenging when we learned that it had to
happen under heavy rain. We explored creating the shot based on
live action elements and augmenting it with CG elements. Tests
revealed that this approach would compromise the required fluid
camera. The camera was meant to glide through space showing us
an exciting event from previously unseen perspectives. Around the
Spring of 2003 when we had gained confidence that our 3 year-long
R&D effort in realistic human face rendering technology could pull
off a full-frame, slow-motion close up of a familiar actor such as
Hugo Weaving, we decided to create the shot entirely in the CG
world.
Study of Target Facial Deformation
One of the main points of discussion and study was what Agent
Smith’s face was supposed to look like during the impact. The
storyboards depicted a surreal, exaggerated, caricature-like extreme
facial deformation. Our team collaborated with the directors to study
the desired target shape by “abusing” Hugo Weaving’s face –
pushing fists into it, blowing high speed air-nozzle streams at it, etc.
These studies resulted in the construction of a practical maquette
representing the directors’ desired extreme facial deformation. This
shape was well more distorted than a real actor’s face could get even
under the most extreme punch.
Facial Animation
We briefly considered doing a blend-shape like approach to go from
a pre-punch pose to the maquette extreme, but we felt that this
would not give us realistic results. We had spent 3 years developing
a powerful and successful image-based facial animation technique
called Universal Capture. This technique allowed us to process a
marker-less multiple angle HD footage of an actor’s performance
and produce a 3-D recording which could be displayed from
different angles and in new lighting conditions. By re-projecting the
original images, the process allowed us to vary the color texture on
the face over time which was critical for the realism of our results.
In the case of The Superpunch we felt that although we couldn’t
capture directly what we wanted, we could still make use of a
powerful performance from Hugo Weaving and manipulate it to
resemble the maquette. We selected a performance, processed it and
then had an incredibly gifted artist create the additional facial
deformations by hand using a set of cluster, wire and proprietary
deformers in Maya. It was the ultimate marriage of technology and
artistry. The directors were closely involved in the process of
layering the additional facial deformations and ripples. In the end,
they slightly revised their vision of the target expression to be less
surreal.
Water Elements
The creation of water elements was a very challenging task due to the
large amount of water and its required interaction with the virtual
actors. We deployed a variety of techniques to construct the various
elements. For the static rod-like water drops suspended in the air
during the shot (inspired by the storyboards and having no basis in
physical reality) we used a set of 30 hand-modeled basic shapes
randomly instanced throughout space. After the fists impact in the
beginning of the shot, the water splashes out creating a barn door like
effect. This effect was achieved with a combination of hand modeled,
placed, and animated shapes and instanced raindrop-like objects with
motion derived from particle simulations. For the water on and
around Neo’s fist and sleeve, we used particle simulations and a
custom implicit blobby surface plug-in to construct meshes from the
particles. The same approach was also used for the water on Smith's
face that flies off at fist impact. The spit coming out of Smith’s mouth
was modeled and animated by hand. Once again the simulation
(movement and timing) of these elements was not physically correct,
but rather entirely driven by artistic vision and direction.
Realistic Appearance and Rendering
Even though the shot’s animation was not based on physics, the
appearance had to be - the shot didn’t have to feel real, but needed to
look real! This required us to rely on a full ray-tracing solution for
shadows, reflections, refractions, caustics, including accurate
simulation of 3-D depth of field. For the realistic skin surface detail,
we had access to 100 micron scans of plaster casts of the actors' faces
and fists. We converted this information into displacement and bump
maps. For the realistic skin appearance, we relied on modifying our
image-based skin reflectance estimation by adding a wet layer in the
shaders. We also had an efficient and realistic subsurface-scattering
approximation without which the skin would have looked like
granite. For the clothing, we added a wet layer on top of the
reflectance data measured from dry costume samples. We also
extended our in-house hair tools to support wet hair styling and
appearance which were matched to live-action reference. For added
realism of the skin around the impact areas, we created animated vein
and knuckle imprint maps that allowed us to manipulate the color and
normals of the skin surfaces. The beauty lighting was reconstructed
from high dynamic range chrome ball images of the on-stage lighting
set-up for the surrounding live action shots. The lightning timing and
direction was designed and tweaked to highlight and complement
important moments within the shot. The background, which responds
to the lighting and is also being reflected and refracted by all water
elements, was constructed using our image-based virtual background
pipeline from a lidar scan and photographs of the actual crater built
on-stage for live action photography. For photorealism and physically
accurate appearance, all elements were rendered together in mental
ray with full ray-tracing including proper 3-D depth of field
simulation.
Conclusion
The Superpunch was considered the most difficult shot in The Matrix
sequels for many reasons, most notably because of the challenge of
showing a full frame computer-generated face of a known human
actor. We believe that we met this challenge and also had an
wonderful experience putting the shot together with an approach that
combined state-of-the-art technology with exceptionally fine artistry
and attention to detail. Most importantly, we felt that were able to
realize the directors’ fantastic vision and assert the storytelling power
of visual effects.
2. Credits
George Borshukov - Shot Supervisor / Technology Supervisor
Kody Sabourin - Shot Design/Animation Lead, Facial Deformation
Masuo Suzuki - Wet Appearance and Water Look Development
Oystein Larsen - Water Effects Animation
Tadao Mihashi - Rendering Lead
Ken Faiman - Universal Capture Performance Processing
Scot Schinderman - Water Effects Software
Oliver James - 3-D Depth of Field Shader
Rene Garcia - Texture Paint
Christina Tempelaar-Lietz - Wet Hair Software
Matt McDonald - Compositing
Carina Ohlund - Virtual Background Construction
Tristan Ikuta, Nathan Fok - Cloth Simulation and Modeling
Brian Freisinger - Head Model Surfacing
John Jack - Producer
Kim Libreri - VFX Supervisor
John Gaeta - Senior VFX Supervisor
Geofrey Darrow, Steve Skroce – Conceptual Design
Larry & Andy Wachowski – Directors
Results
See next page.