Nordisk Film is the oldest still existing film production company in the world. The company was opend around 1912, and still resides at that same location. Back then film was considered a gimmick, just like a circus, so when Nordisk Film first opened, we shared the location with a circus (Circus unknown) that circus had a Polar bear that could do a balanced walk a huge globe. ![]() As the public got to know Nordisk, they associated us with the Polarbear, and the bear on the globe became our company logo. When we needed a new animation of the bear for cinema openings (yes, we own cinemas too) we decided to make a full 3D animation of a bear walking the north pole ice-cap. In this production we needed to do realistically looking fur, and
we started Nordisk Film Research & Development with one simple purpose:
Do the fur rendering for the polar bear.
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To do a good animal styling, you need total control of the fur in the styling fase, much more control, and much more parameters then what you need for a normal rendering. We defined the following specifications for the program:
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