Feathers for mystical creatures: creating pegasus for Clash of the Titans

One of the major challenges for Clash of the Titans was to develop a highly sophisticated feather system used on several flying characters in over a hundred shots. The system had to reliably provide photo-realistic results over a large range of detail levels from characters in the background to those passing just in front of the camera. The feather system was tightly integrated with MPC's existing pipeline and allowed for a large amount of artistic freedom and control efficiently, while requiring almost no technical background to use.