Dynamic Paint for Maya: Creation and Use in the Animation Short "Color Clash"

Author(s) Information

Christopher Wallis, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis ObispoFollow

Department - Author 1

Computer Science Department

Degree Name - Author 1

BS in Computer Science

Date

6-2013

Primary Advisor

Zoë Wood

Abstract/Summary

This write-up describes the creation and utilization of a paint effect from both the perspective of the programmer and the animator. The paint effect simulates a 2D fluid using the algorithm described in Jos Stam's ``Real-time Fluid Dynamics for Games'' \cite{stam}, bakes the results into an image sequence, and then wraps the sequence around a 3D mesh. The second half of this paper describes how the effect was integrated into the animation short, ``Color Clash'' and the animation pipeline that was used.

URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cscsp/22