Human Animation and Behavioral Modification

人体动画和行为矫正

• 批准号: 555599-2020
• 负责人: Mowat, Vicki
• 金额: $ 5.46万
• 依托单位: Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=722692
• 关键词: Human; Animation; Behavioral; Modification

Sheridan College will partner with SideFX, a leading computer graphics software company, to help themachieve breakthrough delivery of solutions within the area of digital character animation. At the core, Houdiniis a fully procedural system that allows artists to create non-destructive workflows. This workflow allows astudio and its artists to create iterations and rapidly share hierarchies with various teams along the animationpipeline. A procedural system can further allow teams to collaborate internally and share assets and scenehierarchy remotely. By sharing resources within the pipeline productions become streamlined making themefficient and cost effective. The proposed project will center on research and development of characteranimation workflows within Houdini, mainly in the areas of animation and simulation of photo realistic digitalcharacters, rules and behavioral actions. The results will demonstrate the advantages of digital charactersanimation in a procedural workflow. The applications will include integration of digital humans,computer-generated characters that exhibit life-like qualities and demonstrate behaviors that react and interactwithin their environments. The potential for growth in the commercial application of digital human charactersand animation is being enabled by developments of increased demand for animation and visual effects in videogames, movies, and television. Success within this project will require a research and development process thatachieves close coupling and consideration of the relationship between the aesthetics of computer graphicscontent creation, graphical limitations of hardware, intimate knowledge of complex production andpost-production workflows, and software development. The project will enable a team of Sheridan's ScreenIndustries Research and Training Centre (SIRT) researchers from the digital arts and computer sciences towork together with an industry partner, SideFX, to develop solutions that benefit the company while having thesecondary benefit of helping to support the growth and international competitiveness of Ontario's media andentertainment sectors within areas of the animation and media industry.

谢里登学院将与领先的计算机图形软件公司 SideFX 合作，帮助他们在数字角色动画领域实现解决方案的突破性交付。 Houdini 的核心是一个完全程序化的系统，允许艺术家创建非破坏性的工作流程。此工作流程允许 astudio 及其艺术家创建迭代并与动画管道上的各个团队快速共享层次结构。程序系统可以进一步允许团队内部协作并远程共享资产和场景层次结构。通过在管道内共享资源，生产变得精简，使其高效且具有成本效益。拟议的项目将集中于Houdini内角色动画工作流程的研究和开发，主要是动画和照片逼真的数字角色、规则和行为动作的模拟领域。结果将展示数字角色动画在程序工作流程中的优势。这些应用程序将包括数字人类、计算机生成的角色的集成，这些角色表现出栩栩如生的品质，并展示在其环境中反应和交互的行为。视频游戏、电影和电视中对动画和视觉效果的需求不断增长，推动了数字人物和动画商业应用的增长潜力。该项目的成功需要一个研究和开发过程，以实现计算机图形内容创建的美学、硬件的图形限​​制、对复杂制作和后期制作工作流程的深入了解以及软件开发之间的关系的紧密结合和考虑。该项目将使谢里登屏幕行业研究和培训中心 (SIRT) 数字艺术和计算机科学领域的研究人员团队与行业合作伙伴 SideFX 合作，开发有利于公司的解决方案，同时获得帮助支持增长的次要好处以及安大略省媒体和娱乐部门在动画和媒体产业领域的国际竞争力。