“Populating the virtual world with animals used to be a lot of manual work“, says Michael J. Black, director of the Perceiving Systems department at the MPI for Intelligent Systems. Today, animators ...

“The process resembles the effort to shape an animal out of an elongated balloon, but is much more exact in terms of the individual segments”, explains Reinert. In the last step, the leopard's coat is ...

The world of 3D animation has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, thanks to the advent of innovative AI tools that have simplified the process of modeling, rigging, and ...

All of the cameras take photos of the animal simultaneously, before off-the-shelf software stitches them together into a 3D model. A smaller, handheld version of the Beastcam array allows ...