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State of animation tools in the industry

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Published: 27 July 2014 Publication History

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DreamWorks Animation, Pixar and Disney have invested in next-gen animation tools, or enhanced existing animation tools, for their animators. Autodesk has made a push in recent years to add and improve animation features in Maya. Rhythm and Hues built an extensible framework, Voodoo, that is used across multiple departments and received a 2013 Technical Achievement Academy Award.

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Watt, M., Cutler, L. D., Powell, A., Duncan, B., Hutchinson, M., and Ochs, K. 2012. Libee: A multithreaded dependency graph for character animation. In Proceedings of the Digital Production Symposium, ACM, New York, NY, USA, DigiPro '12, 59--66.

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State of animation tools in the industry
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
  2. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques
      1. Simulation by animation

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SIGGRAPH '14: ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Panels

July 2014

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ISBN:9781450329590

DOI:10.1145/2614208

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