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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2021
Unity Technologies Sf, San Francisco, CA (US);
Byung Kuk Choi, Wellington, NZ;
Albrecht Steinmetz, Wellington, NZ;
UNITY TECHNOLOGIES SF, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A character rig may be representable as a data structure specifying a plurality of articulated character parts, an element tree specifying relations between character parts, and a set of constraints on the character parts. After receiving rotoscoping movement input data corresponding to attempted alignments of movements of at least some of the character parts with elements moving in a captured live action scene, a rotoscoping constraints may be received. The rotoscoping constraint may include at least a first constraint on the character rig other than a second constraint specified by the data structure of the character rig, Thereafter, rig movement inputs for a second set of character parts distinct from the first set of character parts may be accepted and the character rig may be moved according to the rig movement inputs while constrained by the rotoscoping constraints.