Quill: birds of a feather tool.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (LotG) features over sixty distinctive, art-directed, hyper-realistic feathered characters. We developed a procedural feathering pipeline, Quill, to efficiently realise more than fifteen unique bird species required by the story. This toolset allows a procedural representation of feathers to be developed by surfacing artists, augmented with automatic deintersection, animation, character effects and dynamics and rendered with extensive level-of-detail support.