Animated images are almost magical in their ability to capture our imagination. By telling a compelling story, astounding with special e ects, or mesmerizing with abstract motion, animation can infuse a sequence of inert images with the illusion of motion and life. Creating this illusion, either by hand or with the assistance of computer software, is not easy. Each individual image, or frame, i...

To process large volumes of computer data such as computer animation production, many animators and directors need a high performance digital work environment. For example, a substantial infrastructure consisting of a broadband network and high performance computer systems to work in collaboration flexibly. Animators in the MMTC can do efficient animation painting work while having secure commu...

To process large volumes of computer data such as computer animation production, many animators and directors need a high performance digital work environment. For example, a substantial infrastructure consisting of a broadband network and high performance computer systems to work in collaboration flexibly. Animators in the MMTC can do efficient animation painting work while having secure commu...

Many of the techniques which had recently only been used in off-line animation, like skeletal animation, real-time deformation and skinning of meshes, are now established methods for the implementation of real-time 3D character animation. The importance of real-time character animation in computer games has increased considerably over the past decade. Due to advances in computer hardware and es...