M1 info – Computer Animation

Computer Animation

M1 informatique, UJF-Grenoble

Part 1
- Introduction to OpenInventor (see also the resource page)
- Practice: planetary system
Part 2
- Frame hierarchies
- Interpolation (slides)
- Practice: biped
Part 3
- Inverse kinematics (CCD only)
- Deformable surfaces
- Motion capture and motion graphs
- Videos: setting up a walk cycle, character skinning artifacts and weight painting, bone rigging, blend shapes
- Practice: skinning with Collada
Part 4
- Introduction to physically-based animation: particle dynamics
- Practice: particles
- See also: Baraff and Witkin’s lecture notes and slides
A previous exam

Mass-spring system

This is an introduction to physically-based animation using mass-spring systems. Download, decompress and run massSpring.zip. The programs displays a string of particles and springs. Type CTRL+SPACE to perform one time step, or SPACE to animate continuously. Understand the program question Integration Complete the implementation of the integration scheme (update of positions and velocities) in the …