Character modeling and animation

Character lines, skeletons, deformations, muscles, skin... the art of character setup leaves an animator unencumbered, like a puppeteer, free to focus on the formidable task of bringing a character to life.

Reams & Reels

	Staggered Poses: A Character Motion Representation for Detail-Preserving Editing of Pose and Coordinated Timing. Patrick Coleman, Jacobo Bibliowicz, Karan Singh, Michael Gleicher. Symposium on Computer Animation 2008. [project] [pdf][video]
	Kinodynamic skinning using volume-preserving deformations (SCA 07) [paper][video] Best Paper award.
	Predictive Feedback for Interactive Control of Physics-based Characters (Eurographics 05) [paper][video].
	Outside-In Anatomy Based Character Rigging (SCA 05) [paper][video].
	Helping Hand: An Anatomically Accurate Inverse Dynamics Solution For Unconstrained Hand Motion (SCA 05) [paper][video].
	Ryan Oscar for animated short 05
	Layered Dynamic Control for Interactive Character Swimming (SCA 04) [paper][video].
	Handrix: Animating the Human Hand (pp 110-119 SCA 03) .
	Skinning Characters using Surface Oriented Free-Form Deformations (GI 00).
	Bingo Genie, Electronic Theater award 98
	Wires: A geometric deformation technique (SIGGRAPH 98).
	Realistic Human Figure Synthesis and Animation for Virtual Reality Applications (Ph.D. Dissertation, OSU 95).

Graphics Interface 2000, Cover Image, P. Thuriot, K. Singh.