Bubble physics in 3D animation

This article talks about Ron Henderson's help with bubble physics in the new Dreamworks movie, Home, Ron Henderson was a teacher at Caltech University before coming to Dreamworks to help calculate the math behind a proper bubble animation. There he worked with the animators and a team of scientists to help the movie look more life-like in its physics. He studied the  actual physics of bubbles in there own sort-of lab in the studio. They even had scientists and animators work side by side to get proper animation of things like trees, the bubles, and other things help the completion of this movie.

This is a pretty cool thing to read about. I like seeing that scientists were working together with the animators to get the perfect animation....I wish he had scientists when we made our 3D shorts.... This is cool in that it not only shows how people more inclined to using their left brains and those more inclined to using their right brains can come together to make something great. Also this shows how something as simple as a bubble floating can take a team of physicists to get right.