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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2013
Applicant:
Pixar, Emeryville, CA (US);
Inventor:
Brian Green, Emeryville, CA (US);
Assignee:
PIXAR, Emeryville, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2013.01); G06F 8/34 (2013.01); G05B 19/0426 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for design and use of models can have models with rigging, controls, avars, etc., but can also have controls that are themselves models, thus leading to a hierarchy of models and rigging usable for controlling models in an animation system wherein models correspond to elements or objects for which computer-generated graphics are to be rendered.