Human Animation and Behavioral Modification

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突破性的解决方案交付。在核心，houdini是一个完整的程序系统，允许艺术家创建非破坏性的工作流程。这个工作流程允许工作室及其艺术家创建迭代，并沿着动画管道与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。通过在管道内共享资源，生产变得精简，使其效率和成本效益更高。拟议的项目将集中在胡迪尼内的角色动画工作流程的研究和开发，主要是在动画和模拟照片逼真的数字人物，规则和行为行为领域。结果将证明数字字符动画在程序工作流程中的优势。这些应用将包括数字人类的集成，计算机生成的人物，展现出逼真的品质，并展示在他们的环境中做出反应和互动的行为。电子游戏、电影和电视中对动画和视觉效果的需求不断增长，使得数字人物角色和动画的商业应用潜力不断增长。这个项目的成功将需要一个研究和开发过程，实现密切的耦合和考虑计算机图形内容创作美学之间的关系，硬件的图形限制，复杂的生产和后期生产工作流程的亲密知识，以及软件开发。该项目将使谢里登屏幕工业研究和培训中心（SIRT）的数字艺术和计算机科学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，同时有助于支持安大略省媒体和娱乐行业在动画和媒体行业领域的增长和国际竞争力。

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.