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Millburn Seminar: Prof Aylish Wood, 'Making waves: taking a software approach to Moana'

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Location: Room A0.28, Millburn House
Millburn Seminar: Prof Aylish Wood, 'Making waves: taking a software approach to Moana'
Date: 30/10/2019
Time: 4.30pm (followed by drinks reception)
Venue: A0.28 (Millburn House)
All welcome

The Disney animation Moana’s release was accompanied by celebrations of animation software and the ingenuity of VFX practitioners. Frequently focussing on the feature’s quite fabulous looking water animation, these commentaries are a valuable starting point for challenging the extent to which simulations in cinema are, as is so often claimed, ’realistic.’ Given their scale and increasingly detailed textures, it is easy to get caught up in the visual appeal of simulations created with VFX software. Professor Wood’s purpose in exploring Moana is to step around the power of this visual appeal, and map a route through to the computational and cultural influences that inform and shape simulations.

The talk will be followed by a drinks reception in A0.26. All staff and students are welcome.

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