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Hair and Fur in an Evolving Pipeline
François Schneider, Sylvain Brugnot, Lucy Wilkes, Antonio Patriarca, Adam Vanner, Dennis Petkov, Kristin Farrensteiner, Martin Prazák
DNEG documents how Avengers: Endgame and Togo drove a full redesign of their Furball fur authoring pipeline across five standardized stages.
Abstract
DNEG’s in-house fur software, Furball, has been in continuous production use since 2012. During this time it has undergone significant evolution to adapt to the changing needs from production. We discuss how recent work on films such as Avengers: Endgame and Togo has led to a complete shift in the focus of our fur tools. This has helped us scale up to meet the requirements of ever more fur-intensive shows, while also opening up exciting opportunities for future development.
How to read this
- Category
- Production talk: fur pipeline evolution
- Contributions
- Documents how productions such as Avengers: Endgame and Togo drove a redesign of DNEG's Furball fur software
- Describes a shift in the focus of the fur tools toward more fur-intensive shows
- Frames standardized stages that let the pipeline scale and open future development opportunities
- Context
- Continues DNEG's long-running in-production fur tooling (Furball in use since 2012) within the broader creature-grooming lineage, akin to earlier grooming-pipeline talks such as the Hercules lion work.Builds on: Grooming a Lion for Hercules
- Correctness
- Studio practice, not peer-reviewed; lessons are production-proven on specific shows and reflect one studio's tooling choices rather than a generalizable or measured method.
- Clarity
- Accessible; a talk-style retrospective readable in one pass.
- How to read it
- Read once for the pipeline-evolution narrative and the rationale behind the redesigned stages; useful as context for grooming-tool architecture, no deep second pass needed.
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Related work
- XGen: Arbitrary Primitive Generator 2003 / SIGGRAPH
- Pseudo-Collisions: A Method for Preventing Fur-Skin Intersections Without Physical Simulation 2025 / DigiPro
- Embroidery and Cloth Fiber Workflows on Disney's Encanto 2022 / SIGGRAPH
- Wig Refitting in Pixar's Inside Out 2 2024 / SIGGRAPH
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