Term
| What is Non-Real Time (traditional) animation? |
|
Definition
| Pre-made animation that is just played back (like a Disney Movie) we can not affect it in any way |
|
|
Term
| What is Real-Time Animation? |
|
Definition
| We can change the animation any way we want. (like running in a game and then suddenly stopping) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a method of animation geometry using a series of static vertex sets and linear interpolation to dynamically generate "inbetween" models |
|
|
Term
| What is Hierarchical Animation? |
|
Definition
| a technique that uses a hierarchical data structure to animation the geometry |
|
|
Term
| What is Articulated Animation? |
|
Definition
| the simplest type of hierarchial animation. The character model is made up of groups of individual disjoint geometry that are animated from key-frame data or procedural animation |
|
|
Term
| What is "Skin and Bones" (aka Skinning)? |
|
Definition
| a method of animation geometry using a set of "bone" like transforms and a triangle mesh "skin". The skin is mapped to the bones in such a way that changes to the bones-transforms, also changes the skin mesh. |
|
|
