Dynamics And Animation For Film, Where We Are - Where We Are Going

John Anderson , Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

In the last five years physically motivated procedural animation has become an increasingly important tool for character and effects animation. The influence of these techniques has progressed from an era where dynamics based approaches werepainstakingly applied to a few special shots to the point where the majority of CG character animation includes some procedural elements. We are now at a particularly exciting point in the development and application of these techniques. New technologies and faster hardware have opened the door to real-time procedural characters. These characters combine methods from dynamic simulation and multivariate statistics to provide new tools that allow animators to achieve artistic goals without losing control of the performance.