NICO | GALOPPO || journal

I get asked this question quite often: “What is it that you do?”. I always feel that my answer falls short somehow. When I bring up the term physically based simulation (or animation), most people go into a blank stare. Now I know that I can refer people to an article on “Up”, Pixar’s latest movie about an old man who flies away on a house lifted by balloons. Pixar used a programmed physical simulator to animate thousands of balloons – a scene that is too time-consuming to animate by hand! Read the entire article at CNN.