NetApp's FlexCache helped prioritize artist workflows and streamline access to hundreds of millions of files created throughout the entire production of Trolls World Tour.
Hair simulation is one of the more challenging and complex aspects of CG Animation. Poppy’s hair is made up of 112,000 individual follicles.
DreamWorks stored and managed 1,200 TB of data on NetApp’s AFF and FAS storage systems during the production of Trolls World Tour.
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Throughout the production process, Trolls World Tour utilized a wide variety of NetApp data management solutions, including ONTAP, E-Series, StorageGRID, and Cloud Insights.
A 90-minute, DreamWorks CG animated feature film contains 130,000 individual frames. Each frame is sketched multiple times during an early phase of production called Storyboarding.
A character is completed after going through numerous stages of production, including Modeling, Rigging, Animation and F/X.
On Poppy’s face there are 367 animation control points. Her body has over 800 animation control points – and she is just one of the film’s dozens of characters.
DreamWorks’ memorable characters leap from 2D sketch to 3D design in a process called Modeling.
NetApp Solutions have been used on all of DreamWorks CG Feature Animated Films.
Hair simulation is one of the more challenging and complex aspects of CG films. In Trolls World Tour, Poppy’s hair is made up of 112,000 individual follicles.
During Rigging, the 3D model gets an inverse kinematic skeleton and muscular deformation system to enable anatomically and mechanically-accurate movement.
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Trolls World Tour
