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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2013
Lucasfilm Entertainment Co. Ltd., San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Justin Lee Jutan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rachel Rose, Novato, CA (US);
Darby Johnston, Berkeley, CA (US);
LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of generating an animation rig for a three-dimensional (3-D) computing environment may include providing a rig generation environment that includes a library storing a plurality of blocks. Each of the plurality of blocks may represent particular rig elements and include information for generating the rig elements in the 3-D computing environment along with a first icon that is visually representative of the particular rig elements. The method may also include receiving and displaying two or more blocks in the rig generation environment, and receiving one or more graphical connections between the blocks. The method may additionally include generating the animation rig using the information of each of the two or more blocks and sending the animation rig from the rig generation environment to the 3-D computing environment.