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05 Computer Animation

The document discusses the fundamentals of computer animation including persistence of vision and phi phenomenon. It then covers traditional animation techniques like stop motion and outlines computer-aided animation processes like 2D and 3D modeling, animation, and rendering.

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05 Computer Animation

The document discusses the fundamentals of computer animation including persistence of vision and phi phenomenon. It then covers traditional animation techniques like stop motion and outlines computer-aided animation processes like 2D and 3D modeling, animation, and rendering.

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05 Computer Animation

Fundamentals

Biological Phenomenon: Persistence of Vision

Psychological Phenomenon: Phi


An optical illusion of our brain

10 FPS

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Animation Techniques

Traditional Stop motion Computer

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Traditional Animation
Traditional animation process
Planning the animation: Story board
Recording the soundtrack
Definition of key frames: synchronization
Generate drawings: Inbetweening
Pencil tests
Composition with background
and painting
Filming
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Traditional Animation

Full
Detailed drawings per
frame

Limited
Repeated frames

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Traditional Animation

Rotoscoping
From a real image,
drawings are created frame
by frame

Live-action
Combines real actors and
animated elements

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Stop Motion

Create the illusion of movement of static objects


by photographing and animating them

According to the media used:


Puppet Animation
Clay Animation
Cutout Animation
Pixilation
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Stop Motion

Puppet Animation
Puppet figures interacting with
each other in a constructed
environment

Clay Animation
Uses figures made of clay to
create stop-motion animation
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Stop Motion

Cutout Animation
Produced by moving 2-
dimensional pieces of material
such as paper or cloth

Pixilation
Live humans are used as stop
motion characters
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Computer - Aided Animation
Using the computer at some stages of the
animation process
Acquisition of the drawings: Scanners and Tablets
Coloring: Region - Filling techniques
Automation of Inbetweening: Interpolation
Pencil tests
Composition with background
and filming

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2D Animation
It incorporates vector drawing tools and digital
video manipulation

Standard: Flash / Shockwave


Some techniques used are: tweening, morphing
and onion skinning
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Tweening

Tweening is the process of generating


intermediate frames between two images to
give the appearance that the first image evolves
smoothly into the second image.

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Morphing

Morphing is a special effect in motion pictures


and animations that changes (or morphs) one
image or shape into another through a seamless
transition.

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Onion skinning

Onion skinning is a 2D computer graphics term


for a technique used in creating animated
cartoons and editing movies to see several
frames at once.

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3D Animation

The process of creating 3D computer graphics

1. Modeling
Creating shape of objects
2. Layout and animation
Motion and placement of objects
3. Render
Produces an image from an object
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3D Modeling

Creating the shape of objects


Most common sources of 3D models :
Generated by an artist
3D Specific software

3D Scanners

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3D Modeling

3D models represent objects using point


collections, triangles, curves…

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3D Modeling

3D scannerss

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Layout and Animation

Placing and moving objects in the scene


Spatial description: position and size
Temporal description: movement over time

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Layout and Animation

Description of the movement

Key framing: traditional

Inverse kinematics

Motion capture

Physical simulation

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Layout and Animation

Inverse kinematics

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Layout and Animation

Motion capture

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Layout and Animation

Physical simulations

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3D Rendering

Process of creating the set of 2D image (frames)


from the 3D scene.

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