Methods and apparatus for designing animatronics units from articulated computer generated characters
AssigneePixar
InventorsJohn Anderson, Rob Cook
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Abstract
A method for specifying a design for an animatronics unit includes receiving motion data comprising artistically determined motions, determining a design for construction of at least a portion of the animatronics unit in response to the motion data, and outputting the design for construction of the animatronics unit.
Claims26
A method for specifying a design for an animatronics unit comprising:
- receiving motion data comprising artistically determined motions;
- determining a design for construction of at least a portion of the animatronics unit in response to the motion data;
- and
- outputting the design for construction of the animatronics unit.
A computer system comprising:
- a memory configured to store motion data comprising artistically determined motions;
- a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to determine a design for construction of at least a portion of the animatronics unit in response to the motion data, and wherein the processor is configured to output the design for construction of the animatronics unit.
A computer program product resident on a tangible media comprises executable code that is executable on a computer system, wherein the computer system includes a processor and a memory, the computer program product comprising:
- code configured to direct the processor to retrieve motion data comprising artistically determined motions the memory;
- code configured to direct the processor to determine a design for construction of at least a portion of the animatronics unit in response to the motion data;
- and
- code configured to direct the processor to output the design for construction of the animatronics unit.
A method for constructing an animatronics unit comprising:
- receiving a design for construction of a portion of the animatronics unit;
- and
- constructing the portion of the animatronics unit in response to the design for construction of the portion of the animatronics unit;
- wherein the design for construction of the portion of the animatronics unit is determined in response to the motion data comprising artistically determined motions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.