Character rigging, deformations, and simulations in film and game production

ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Courses, SIGGRAPH'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  McLaughlin, Tim ^a   Cutler, Larry ^b   Coleman, David ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DreamWorks Animation ^*  (United States)

^c ELECTRONIC ARTS   (United States)

Author keywords

animation; deformations; muscle simulation; real time; rigging

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CHARACTERS; MUSCLE SIMULATION; PROCESS-ORIENTED; REAL-TIME; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; RIGGING; VISUAL EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES;

ANIMATION;

EID: 80054815231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2037636.2037641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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