… Of these tools, PDI's in-house human-animation system has assumed … system can be too
expensive in terms of production, so we rely on crowd simulation to fill the environment with ants…

… In 1996, PDI and DreamWorks SKG entered into a co-production agreement to create "ANTZ,"
a fully computer-animated feature film. Among the many technical challenges we faced …

… on Madagascar said when he was working on Antz, "The eyes are the biggest challenge
and the biggest payoff". The crowd system at PDI/DreamWorks uses cycle-based models. This …

… position of the ants depends on the path constructed by the ants before. So … ants can make
at each step are fixed and independent of each other. Thus we can calculate each step of ants …

… Recently, PDI [27] and Pixar [28] have presented some efforts to simulate crowds of ants in
an automatic way. For producing AntZ, two systems were built in order to provide tools to be …

… Using PDI's proprietary scripting environment, Seth has helped modernize the crowd
software and simulation pipeline that was originally used on PDI's film 'Antz'. Until 2003, Seth …

… Abstract—We present a novel approach to direct and control virtual crowds using navigation
fields. Our method guides one or more agents toward desired goals based on guidance …

… A crowd is not only a group of many individuals: crowd modeling involves problems arising
only when we focus on crowds. For … Recent films such as Bugs Life and AntZ, made by the …

… Extensive use of virtual crowds has been made in many commercial movies like AntZ [1]
or The Lord of the Rings [2]. Also, high quality crowd simulations are crucial for many virtual …

… For a more detailed examination of the predictive performance and its relationship with
the PDI, we present the PDI prediction results and their correlative relationship in Figure 13. …