Animations by Physicists

PHYSICS DEPARTMENT TAMU SUMMER ’05

Mario Francisco Borunda

Outline

Introduction

Block modeling

Motion

Skeletons

Exporting your animation

By the end of the day…

HOW? – 3D Modelers

• Anim8or - free software

• Maya Learning Edition – not as simple

• System requirements:• 256 MB ram – Windows – OpenGl

Open GL

• 3D Graphics library

• Not a programming language but an application programming interface (API)

• Uses ‘primitives’ to draw objects

BLOCK MODELING

Surfaces

MOTION

SKELETONS

EXPORTING

Let us begin…