Skeletal animation plays an important role in gaming industry. There are many techniques which can be used to optimize skeletal animations to make them run more efficiently in real-time scenes. This ...

Bending of an elbow or a knee is common in most computer animations of human or animal figures, but current techniques often result in unwanted pinching or bulging near the joints. Disney Research has ...

With skeleton animation now functional, animating a model was the next step. That is, however, no trivial step. My skeleton's design gave me an easy way to move a point "with" a given bone. Each bone ...