3-D animation made incredibly easy

Whether it’s King Kong for Hollywood’s dream factory or apes in a computer game: even experts usually need several days using conventional programs to recreate animals in three-dimensional digital form, and to animate them in a lifelike way. Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken have developed software that even non-specialists can use to create such 3D figures in just a few minutes – to do this, they need nothing more than a video that shows the animal moving. Users only need to indicate the lines of the head, body and limbs, the software does everything else.

The program could be of interest to the film and computer game industry but also to non-specialists, who can use it to easily produce animated animal films.

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