This paper introduces a new process, environment matting, which captures not just a foreground object and its traditional opacity matte from a real-world scene, but also a descrip...
Douglas E. Zongker, Dawn M. Werner, Brian Curless,...
We present an interactive modeling and animation system that facilitates the integration of a variety of simulation and animation paradigms. This system permits the modeling of di...
Robert C. Zeleznik, D. Brookshire Conner, Matthias...
Currently 3D animation rendering and video compression are completely independent processes even if rendered frames are streamed on-the-fly within a client-server platform. In suc...
Robert Herzog, Shin-ichi Kinuwaki, Karol Myszkowsk...
For decades, animated cartoons and movie special effects have factored the rendering of a scene into layers that are updated independently and composed in the final display. We ap...