Many algorithm animation tools have been developed over the last years.The users of such tools can be separated into four roles: the original algorithm programmer, developers of the animation tool, visualizers that generate the animation and end users viewing the animation. Most tools focus on providing features for only one or at most two of these roles.The ANIMAL system is designed to present...

Visual languages have been widely used to help people create animation programs. However, current programming environments lack features supporting efficient code exploration and program comprehension, particularly for understanding relationships among parts of animation programs. In this paper, we present novel interactive visualizations aimed at helping people to understand animation programs...

To edit or create the animation of a 3D character model has always been an important but time-consuming task, since the animator usually needs to set up the character’s skeleton, paint its binding weights, and adjust its key-poses. Hence, we propose an animation transfer system in this paper to take a well-edited character animation as the input. Then, the system can transfer the skeleton, bind...

While face animation is still considered one of the toughest tasks in computer animation, its potential application range is rapidly moving from the classical field of film production into games, communications, news delivery and commerce. To support such novel applications, it is important to enable production and delivery of face animation on a wide range of platforms, from high-end animation...