Frankenrigs: Building character rigs from multiple sources

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1060-1070

  Miller, Christian ^a   Arikan, Okan ^b   Fussell, Donald S ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Animeeple Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

character animation; rig reuse; Rigging; skinning

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; BODY PARTS; CHARACTER ANIMATION; MULTIPLE SOURCE; RIG REUSE; RIGGING; SKINNING; USER INTERACTION;

ANIMATION;

EID: 79958856069     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.39     Document Type: Article

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