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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2016
Blue Sky Studios, Inc., Greenwich, CT (US);
Adam Burr, Suffern, NY (US);
Steve Gressak, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Christian Haniszewski, Kearny, NJ (US);
Ignacio Barrios, Mount Krisco, NY (US);
Brian Anderson, Katonah, NY (US);
Ferris Webby, North Salem, NY (US);
BLUE SKY STUDIOS, INC., Greenwich, CT (US);
Abstract
A system and method for 3D animation utilizing UVN transformation includes generation of head meshes in Cartesian space, transformation of head mesh vertices into UVN coordinate space, mapping of vertices to their closest UV coordinates on the surface, with signed distances becoming their N coordinates, sculpting flattened, square UVN meshes, transforming said meshes back to Cartesian space by evaluating the parameterized surface at the new UV coordinates, and scaling surface normal by the new N coordinate and adding to the surface positions.