Descriptif

• Creative AI, ie. how interactive content creation can be enhanced using smart graphical models embedding knowledge, to enable intuitive gesture-based creation. As we will show, this "expressive modeling" methodology can be applied to a variety of cases, from the design of individual products to be fabricated to the creation of full, animated virtual worlds.
• Autonomous characters have been called for decades "the AIs" of virtual worlds. We will first describe the main methods for animating character models, by detailing each layer - from brain to skeletal motion and to skin and hair, that contributes to bring a virtual creature to life. The last courses will be devoted to autonomous character navigation, where motion planning and control will be developed for both individual characters and for groups.