Visual communication design of “Voorspel” short film animation

Automatic Visual Speech Animation

Visual speech animation, also known as lip synchronization, is the process of matching a speech audio file with the lips’ movements of a synthetic character. Visual speech is a very demanding task, being either fully manual, which is very time consuming, or with automatic methods based on data analysis. Currently, there is still no automatic method that generates any sequence of visual speech, ...

Improving Communication Using 3D Animation

This paper presents a high level view of a project which aims at improving the communication between people who do not share the same language by using a 3D animation upper layer to lift the inherent limitations of written text. We will produce animation using the Collada file format, a standard based on the XML format. This project (GITAN ) has started in January 2010, and we expect to have th...

Game Character Animation Design

Recent advances in technology and work in artificial intelligence have lead to the development of more cognitive virtual characters in video games today. Thus, video games that are released upon the gaming industry today tend to take place in a very realistic and fluid virtual environment. With procedures like rotoscoping in the past helping to pave the way for modern methodologies including co...

A Theory of Animation: Cells, L-systems, and Film

Real-Time Visual Animation of Explosions

Realistic explosion effects can enhance the realism and immersion in virtual battlefield. The real-time explosion effects simulation of the explosion products and their interactions, such as explosive fireball, explosive smoke and explosive ash, will be exploded into two phases: explosions and fuel modeling. The explosions modeling describe the formation and spreading of the explosive fireball....