Pixar Landscapes

In this video, Wired explains how the CG landscapes for “The Good Dinosaur” were created using, among other things, volumetric clouds and Houdini water simulation.
THE GOOD DINOSAUR – SEEING THE LIGHT — An Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend in Disney•Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur.” Directed by Peter Sohn, “The Good Dinosaur” opens in theaters nationwide Nov. 25, 2015. ©2015 Disney•Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

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“The Good Dinosaur” is not currently recording good box-office results. As Cartoon Brew reports, it could even be—unless crowds of viewers have saved their cinema visit for the holidays—that Pixar/Disney’s latest production, “The Good Dinosuar,” becomes the lowest-grossing Pixar film to date. This “record” is still held by “A Bug’s Life.”

But let us turn to the far more interesting technical side and see how Pixar brought wind simulation into every single tree and shrub:

More about “The Good Dinosaur” and “Inside Out” in the current issue of DP 01 : 16.