Projects ordered by recency.
A graph-based C++ procedural execution framework for real-time deformation and simulation workflows, and a real-time proximity deformer built on top of it.
Real-time zero-restlength spring deformer for Unreal Engine, built to restore ballistic secondary motion to ML Deformer output. Per-vertex stiffness and damping estimated from offline flesh sim data; forward-looking tracking dependency removed for real-time use. Picks up a thread from wiggly splines work on WALL·E.
Led skin and muscle simulation developments on Incredibles 2.
Large-scale distributed multiphase fluid simulation for the river and cauldron sequences.
Simulation-driven armature rigging workflow and virtual-node rigid fracture in Houdini.
Layered FEM flesh and skin simulation on the bears and horses of Brave. Independent volumetric flesh and sliding triangular skin simulations, both biphasic, with constitutive models that adapt stiffness to hold across slow secondary motion and fast ballistic action.
Architected and led PAL, a C++/Python simulation scene graph used across most Pixar films from Toy Story 3 through Incredibles 2.
PLS fluid simulator for Mow's backpack.
Custom widgets for path-following character driving system.
Tetrahedral FEM flesh simulation for WALL·E's devolved humans, from jelly-blob concept through final production. Ran on every shot with a human character, operated by animators. Co-authored the SIGGRAPH 2008 sketch.
Rebuilt ILM's flesh and cloth simulation pipeline, then advanced it production by production — culminating in Davy Jones, widely considered one of the greatest CG creatures ever put on screen.