Computer Animation – TUWien

Overview

Modeling
- Introduction to hierarchical modeling using OpenInventor (see also the resource page)
- Introduction to frame hierarchies
- Practice: planetary system
Interpolation
- Interpolation (slides) Video: blend shapes
- Skinning and Deformable surfaces. Video: character skinning artifacts and weight painting
- Practice: camera interpolation
Advanced kinematics
- Inverse kinematics (CCD only)
- Motion capture and motion graphs
- Motion retargetting
- Videos: setting up a walk cycle, bone rigging
- Practice: biped
Physics
- Introduction
- See also: Baraff and Witkin’s lecture notes and slides
- Practice: particles

Free implementation of OpenInventor
Ubuntu packages: libsoqt4-dev libsimage20 (the latter is optional, only used for loading some textures)
OpenInventor C++ API
Online reference book on OpenInventor
The Inventor Mentor examples adapted to Coin3D, with project files
Online book on extending Inventor
The SGI page

Spotlight

July 1st, 2020: the IMAGINE team becomes the ANIMA team, with a new focus on authoring and directing animated story worlds. To this effect, we will invent new methods and tools for geometric, physical, semantic and aesthetic modeling of virtual worlds. Our website will be updated very soon. Stay tuned.
Thank you to all the wonderful people who made the first workshop on Computer and Theatre aka Journées d'informatique Théâtrale (JIT 2020) such a great event. We are preparing the second edition to take place next year.
January, 2020: Happy New Year to All ! The program for the first workshop on Computer and Theatre aka Journées d'informatique Théâtrale (JIT 2020) is now online. The workshop will take place in Grenoble, February 12-14. Is is open to all and entrance is free.
October, 2019: The IMAGINE team will be present at MIG 2019 in Newcastle, Graphics and Cultural Heritage 2019 in Sarajevo and JFIG 2019 in Marseille.
November 2019: The first workshop on Computer and Theatre aka Journées d'informatique Théâtrale (JIT 2020) will take place in Grenoble in February 2020.