Motion Capture, Key-framed, and Simulated Animation Techniques
By: Benjamin Wagley
Supervisor: Chad Walker
Masters of Interactive Technology degree conferred March 23, 2007
Thesis / Project completed: March 21, 2007

This project represents my motivations and interests over the past several months in the area of animation with a specific study in the techniques of several types of animation creation. These types of animation include Motion Capture, Key-framed, and Simulated Animation. I was also interested in learning the different software packages and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each. After creating each type of animation, I then combined them to achieve a different animation than was more complex than the animation sequences that were used to create them.

Throughout this project I have studied, and created different animation techniques that were then combined to achieve results that would lend themselves to the project, and have been able to come to a better understanding of different animation techniques through the research and development of this project. I have also learned the functionality of different animation programs and how the end results from each can be combined to achieve a different, and often more exciting, result than those of the respective parts.

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