animation

references

• • N. Burtnyk and M. Wein. 1976. Interactive skeleton techniques for enhancing motion dynamics in key frame animation. Commun. ACM 19, 10 (October 1976), 564-569. (ncsu)

  • Lasseter, J. (1987, August). Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation. In ACM Siggraph Computer Graphics (Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 35-44). ACM. (ncsu)

videos

• • theoretical examples

    • C0 continuity

    • C1 continuity

    • Gimbal lock

    • Quaternion interpolation

  • types of movement

    • exaggerated

      • illusion of life

    • rigid body animation

      • fly logos (joke)

      • NFL Today 1982 flying logos

      • Monday Night Football intro

      • Star Wars light saber sphere

    • articulated structures

      • Siggraph mascot

      • King Kong

      • Harryhausen skeletons

      • A typical gaming setup

    • dynamics

      • PhysX cloth

      • PhysX fragments

      • water by Evan Wallace

      • Stuart Little in washer

      • Genesis effect

  • types of modeler control

    • keyframing

      • Roadrunner

      • Flintstones

      • Snow White

      • Classic system for keyframing from Canada

    • sprite similarity to keyframing

      • Donkey Kong

      • Doom

      • Quake

    • stop motion and per frame animation

      • Gumby

      • Harryhausen's Jason & the Argonauts skeletons

      • King Kong

      • See Empire's ATAT walkers

    • per joint

      • Toy Story

      • Luxo Jr

    • skinning and rigging

      • Collada demo

      • Blender rigging

    • pose space

      • Gollum: facial pose blending

    • mocap

      • Gleicher retargeting

    • state spaces and blending

      • Pitfall: motion looping

      • Street Fighter 2: animation states

      • UDK animation blending

      • Shadowlands: blending fail

engine refs

• • manuals

    • unity

    • unreal

  • videos

    • unity

    • unreal