Animation in Italy

Psychological reactions in the (I.C.U.) Department of Animation

The Psycho-reactive problems affecting patients, relatives and staff in the intensive care unit are discussed in this article. These problems are usually due to the ad­mitting disease itself, ( obvious anxiety of the patient who has just had a coronary infarc­tion agitation of the patient with incipient respiratory failure) or psycho-reactive problems arising directly from the I.C.U. environ­me...

Korea- Italy Workshop on Membranes: A Long Relationship and Friendship between Korea and Italy

Animation Sketching: An Approach to Accessible Animation

Rough diagrams are useful in communication and planning, but static diagrams can be insufficient to express motion. While for many applications animation is effective in depicting movement and temporal relationships, it is difficult and often tedious to create. We explore the use of motion-recording techniques to simplify the animation process. Event timing is controlled by providing additional...

Animation for Games: Animation and Skinning

Recap: In the last couple of lectures we introduced the principal elements of skeletal models and how to represent animations. Recall that a skeletal model consists of a collection of joints, which have been joined into a rooted tree structure. Recall that a pose is defined by rotating each of the joints in a specific way. Rotations are defined relative to a default pose, called the bind pose o...

Computer Animation 1 Two-dimensional Animation

Animated images are almost magical in their ability to capture our imagination. By telling a compelling story, astounding with special e ects, or mesmerizing with abstract motion, animation can infuse a sequence of inert images with the illusion of motion and life. Creating this illusion, either by hand or with the assistance of computer software, is not easy. Each individual image, or frame, i...