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The problems in my last post were not resolved. I believe the problem didn’t have to do specifically with my character rig but rather in the way the Maya’s HumanIK system works as I had the same problem with other rigs. I decided to ignore the issue and work only with the initially recorded mocap

Today was my last day working directly at the lab.  I’ve been admin for one year, and now that I’ve graduated, I must go out into the real world and find the next thing to do. It’s been a real pleasure working with everyone here.  I’m not saying goodbye to these people yet, as I’ll

Every year, without falter, our lab goes through a “spring cleaning” (though almost never in spring). We rifle through the equipment we use, the cables we don’t, the desk space we have, and the people who have stayed through to the new academic year. There’s much that we deem fit to save for the upcoming

Sketch based creation is always charming to me, like chalktalk, like autodraw. They are showing the potential to turn a static 2D image or just lines into a vivid volume. Once deep learning is being used universally, people have more approaches to apply the detection of 2D drawing. Weeks ago when we were in SIGGRAPH

The production we showed at SIGGRAPH 2018 was a new kind of thing. When you put an audience in a physical room together and provide them with a shared experience of total sensory immersion, it’s not exactly a play, and it’s not exactly a movie. For want of a better word, I’ve started calling it

Today I would like to share with you a powerful experience I had recently in Seattle. It does not happen very often to me to hear something which changes my perspective and opens new doors for creativity. I carefully treasure these moments in my memory as a challenge for my own work. Last week I

Tonight I saw a 70mm print of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, VERTIGO, at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. Although it’s my tenth time seeing the film, this was my first time seeing it projected on film with an audience. And boy was it good. I could talk about VERTIGO for hours, but I’d rather talk

Note: This post is assumes a little bit (byte) of familiarity with computer science — specifically the binary search tree data structure. As an undergraduate I collaborated with another student (now graduated) to prototype a few computer science-related sketches in Chalktalk. The binary search tree (BST) was our first target, so we made the following