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the dancers - techniques

- per frame lofting
- inverse kinematics
- spring dynamics

 

 steve dipaola

Copyright © 1997 Steve DiPaola
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Dancer Animation Technique - The dancer contours were modeled and animated on a keyframe system that incorporates inverse kinematics and constraint based control. An advanced lofting technique connects the contours using a cubic spline, inserting additional contours and using bifurcation techniques where appropriate. This occurs for each frame of the animation. The skirt is automatically animated with a spring dynamics approach solely on the movement of the figure and a few physical parameters.

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