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Animation control with dynamics

Daniel Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
1989
Conference Papers

Abstract

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of kinematics and dynamics in motion control for animating three-dimensional characters. It presents a motion control system based on dynamics. Applications of such a system are especially in the area of walking and grasping. It is shown that a simulation of writing a letter is a typical dynamic process. For the animation of the hand itself, a kinematic approach seems to be more convenient. The problem of surface deformations is also briefly mentioned

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Daniel Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
1989
Conference Papers

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/b25d1afe-bd66-4153-a626-1d9e3480d7a4

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Animation is the method by which are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, many animations are computer animations made with (CGI). Stop motion animation, in particular claymation, has continued to exist alongside these other forms. Animation is contrasted with live-action film, although the two do not exist in isolation. Many moviemakers have produced films that are a hybrid of the two.

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