Towards higher quality character performance in previz

Proceedings - Digital Production Symposium 2013, DigiPro 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 31-36

  Marsella, Stacy ^a   Shapiro, Ari ^a   Feng, Andrew ^a   Xu, Yuyu ^a   Lhommet, Margaux ^a   Scherer, Stefan ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Gestures; Previsualization

Indexed keywords

CAMERA ANGLES; COMMODITY SOFTWARE; GESTURES; OVERALL QUALITY; PREVISUALIZATION; PRODUCTION COST; REDUCING COSTS; RUNNING WATERS;

ANIMATION; MOTION PICTURES;

CAMERAS;

EID: 84883090088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2491832.2491835     Document Type: Conference Paper

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