Tim McLaughlin
Larry Cutler
ABSTRACT
This course focuses on rigging, deformations, dynamics, and production practices in animation, visual effects and game development. Topics include analysis of performance requirements, motion system set-up, procedural rigging for secondary animation, and efficient extension of techniques over a wide range of primary and secondary characters.
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- Lewis, J. P., Cordner, M., and Fong, N. 2000. Pose space deformation: a unified approach to shape interpolation and skeleton-driven deformation. In Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., New York, NY, USA, SIGGRAPH '00, 165--172. Google ScholarDigital Library
- McLaughlin, T., and Sumida, S. S. 2007. The morphology of digital creatures. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 courses, ACM, New York, NY, USA, SIGGRAPH '07. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Mclaughlin, T. 2005. Taxonomy of digital creatures: interpreting character designs as computer graphics techniques: Copyright restrictions prevent acm from providing the full text for this work. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Courses, ACM, New York, NY, USA, SIGGRAPH '05. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Mclaughlin, T. 2006. Taxonomy of digital creatures: defining character development techniques based upon scope of use. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Courses, ACM, New York, NY, USA, SIGGRAPH '06. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Monks, C., Newall, M., Phillips, C., Popravka, N., Smith, J., and Tooley, J. 2004. Posing as a werewolf: the creature matchmove tool used for "van helsing": Copyright restrictions prevent acm from providing the full text for this work. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Sketches, ACM, New York, NY, USA, SIGGRAPH '04, 51--. Google ScholarDigital Library
- O'Neill, R. 2008. Digital Character Development: Theory and Practice. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Peña, B. A. 2011. Performance-guided character bind pose for deformations. Master's thesis, Texas A&M University.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Character rigging, deformations, and simulations in film and game production
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