1. Animations by Physicists PHYSICS DEPARTMENT TAMU SUMMER ’05 Mario Francisco Borunda

2. Outline  Introduction  Block modeling  Motion  Skeletons  Exporting your animation

3. By the end of the day…

4. HOW? – 3D Modelers Anim8or - free software Maya Learning Edition – not as simple System requirements: 256 MB ram – Windows – OpenGl

5. Open GL 3D Graphics library Not a programming language but an application programming interface (API) Uses ‘primitives’ to draw objects

6. BLOCK MODELING Surfaces

7. MOTION

8. SKELETONS

9. EXPORTING

10. Let us begin…