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Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:

Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Adam Schnitzer, Petaluma, CA (US);

Max S-Han Chen, San Mateo, CA (US);

Domenico Porcino, San Rafael, CA (US);

Louise Rasmussen, Fairfax, CA (US);

Greg James, Redwood City, CA (US);

Jonathan Stone, San Francisco, CA (US);

Steve Sullivan, Mill Valley, CA (US);

Kent Oberheu, Berkeley, CA (US);

Assignee:

LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 13/20 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 13/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for animation. An animation application creates an animation environment. An input device receives input from a user to the animation application. An output device displays output to the user of the animation application. The animation application is configured to have a mode of operation that includes displaying, through the output device, a 3D animation view of the animation environment overlain by a 2D edit view of the animation environment.


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