BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T190157Z LOCATION:West Building\, Ballroom C DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250814T092200 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250814T094400 UID:siggraph_SIGGRAPH 2025_sess169_gensub_180@linklings.com SUMMARY:Metaball Madness - The Rigging Of An Implicit Surface Character DESCRIPTION:Anna-Christine Lykkegaard, Andrew Butts, and Julian Teo (Pixar Animation Studios)\n\nWe present a novel character rigging solution devel oped for OOOOO, a liquid supercomputer in Pixar's Elio. OOOOO is Pixar’s f irst mesh-free character rig with a hierarchical arrangement of implicit s urface primitives and operators, allowing for complex transformations and offers unprecedented flexibility in character animation.\n\nInterest Area: Production & Animation\n\nRecording: Livestreamed, Recorded\n\nKeyword: A nimation, Art, Dynamics, Geometry, Modeling, Pipeline Tools and Work, Rend ering, Simulation\n\nRegistration Category: Full Conference, Virtual Acces s, Thursday\n\nSession Chair: Mark Tucker (SideFX)\n\n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR