[FabHK]

Stanford. I thought it was Ron Fedkiv’s group, but I might easily misremember, or could’ve been a visitor. I mostly remember because it was such a random thing. The graphics people had a lot of fun, one group was working on hair, fur, and fire or so. All boils down to PDEs, discretised into massive linear systems.

[santaclaus]

Fedkiw coauthored a paper with Foster in 2001, which is about the time of Shrek, so that must have been it!