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Wrapped Clothing on Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon
Novel techniques for simulating Southeast Asian wrapped garments (sampot, dhoti, bust-wraps) outside the standard seam-based pattern pipeline in Raya.
Abstract
This talk outlines novel techniques used to create the complex wrapped clothing on Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Raya and the Last Dragon”. Inspired by traditional Southeast Asian designs, these wrapped garments are formed by deftly folding long panels of cloth, with little to no reliance on seams to hold the structure. This departure from a standard pattern-based pipeline made the construction and performance of these specialized garments in CG a very challenging task. Using the sampot, dhoti, and bust-wrap garments as production examples, we describe their real-world counterpart designs and construction, discuss what makes them challenging to create in CG, and then outline how we extrapolated their designs and realized them for the stylistic needs and performances of the characters on the film.
How to read this
- Category
- Production talk / cloth pipeline techniques
- Contributions
- Techniques for simulating Southeast Asian wrapped garments (sampot, dhoti, bust-wrap) that rely on folding rather than seams
- Adapts construction and performance of these garments outside the standard seam-based, pattern pipeline
- Documents how real-world wrap designs were extrapolated and realized for the stylistic and performance needs of Raya's characters
- Context
- Addresses a gap in standard pattern-and-seam cloth workflows (which sit on solvers such as Tamstorf et al.'s smoothed-aggregation multigrid for cloth) for garments held together by folding rather than stitching.Builds on: Smoothed Aggregation Multigrid for Cloth Simulation
- Correctness
- Studio practice, not peer-reviewed; techniques are production-proven on Raya and the Last Dragon and shaped by the film's specific garments and stylistic needs, so they are case-driven solutions rather than a generalized wrapped-cloth method.
- Clarity
- Accessible and example-led around the sampot, dhoti, and bust-wrap; a single read conveys the challenges and the approach.
- How to read it
- Read once for why seam-free wrapped garments break the standard pipeline and the workarounds used; revisit when facing similarly non-pattern-based clothing.
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Related work
- Continuum-based Strain Limiting 2009 / Eurographics
- GPU-Based Simulation of Cloth Wrinkles at Submillimeter Levels 2021 / SIGGRAPH
- Efficient Simulation of Inextensible Cloth 2007 / SIGGRAPH
- Adaptive Anisotropic Remeshing for Cloth Simulation 2012 / SIGGRAPH Asia
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