GROOMING
When Reel FX Animation Studios, a longtime digital effects and
animation service company, set out to become a creation company
by making its first animated feature film, the studio immediately
faced a huge challenge that would make the most experienced
veterans pause: The majority of the movie's characters are turkeys, which means feathers. Lots of feathers. And, as any
artist can tell you, generating fur and feathers is not a
task that particularly tickles one's fancy.
■ JAKE'S FINAL
GROOM contains
more than 40
different feather
clubs and well over
two million individual hairs, or barbs.
40
■
CGW Novem ber / Dec em ber 2013
