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Skeletal Animation

The intent of this page will be to display some examples from the Skeletal Animation technology created by Intel Architecture Labs.

These pages are not to be interpreted as an official statement or publication of Intel or Digimation. Although not truely an unbiased survey, this page should be treated as independent overview of publically available information.

Pictorial

These images are taken from the GDC 2000 paper and presentation.

"Run-Time Skin Deformation" at Game Developers Conference

Paper: Word or Acrobat
Presentation: PowerPoint or Acrobat

These files have been approved by Intel legal for public disclosure.

Intel Page

The official Intel 3D Software page is here.

The toolkit demo can be real hard to find, so here's a link.

Macromedia Page

This technology was used in Director 8.5 and can be seen in recent Shockwave movies.

A follow-up white paper was written to describe some unsupported undocumented methods available in the bonesplayer.

Digimation Page

This technology was previously marketed under the name "Animate RT" through Digimation.

You can find specific products from the main page. You might attempt to go directly to the AnimateRT page.