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Art-Directing Asha's Braids in Disney's Wish
Tools and workflows for grooming, simulating, and stylizing Asha's complex tightly-braided locks in Wish, covering braid simulation and art-direction techniques.
Abstract
For Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 100th anniversary feature, the filmmakers wanted to honor the studio’s legacy with a stylized look that draws from the rich artistic heritage of Disney’s earliest films. In addition to the challenges of a highly art-directed stylized look, Asha’s hairstyle comprises a full head of long, thin, tightly-braided locks which was far more complex than our previous braid grooms. In order to art direct Asha’s stylized hair performance in "Wish", several advancements were made in tools and workflows across the character departments for grooming, simulation, and stylization techniques.
How to read this
- Category
- Production talk / breakdown: art-directed braided hair workflow
- Contributions
- Demonstrates advancements in grooming, simulation and stylization for a full head of long, thin, tightly-braided locks on Disney's Wish
- Shows braid simulation and art-direction techniques to hit a highly stylized look honoring early Disney films
- Covers cross-department tool and workflow changes needed for the stylized hair performance
- Context
- Builds on Disney's art-directed hair lineage, notably Kaur et al.'s 'Hierarchical Controls for Art-Directed Hair', extending it to more complex braided grooms.Builds on: Hierarchical Controls for Art-Directed Hair at Disney
- Correctness
- Studio practice, not peer-reviewed; results are production-proven on a single feature, so the techniques are tuned to that film's stylized braids rather than presented as a general method.
- Clarity
- Accessible as a production case study; one pass conveys the challenges and solutions, with little heavy formalism to revisit.
- How to read it
- Read once focusing on how braid complexity is groomed, simulated and kept art-directable; treat as a practical reference for stylized hair pipelines rather than for algorithms.
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Related work
- Scriptable Character FX Solution 2019 / DigiPro
- Choreography of Hair and Cloth in Disney's Moana 2 2025 / SIGGRAPH
- Hierarchical Controls for Art-Directed Hair at Disney 2018 / SIGGRAPH
- The Art and Technology of Hair Simulation in Disney's Moana 2017 / SIGGRAPH
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