Animation

The MonoEye rig (left) with examples of its output and the resulting animated model

Science

Wearable motion capture tech uses a single fisheye camera

Typically, motion capture systems are confined to one studio containing multiple cameras, and they require subjects to wear sensor-equipped body suits. A new setup, however, is based around a single chest-mounted camera.

Science

IBM creates world's smallest movie using individual atoms

For those who didn't know that physicists are really frustrated Pixar animators, it will be surprising to learn that scientists at IBM Almaden in California have produced the world’s smallest animated movie.

NASA's stunning Perpetual Ocean animation visualizes ocean currents (Image: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

Science

NASA's Perpetual Ocean animation turns ocean currents into art

NASA's stunning Perpetual Ocean animation visualizes ocean currents.

The digital tapestry created by Crystal CG

Science

Video: Animated digital tapestry wows visitors at Shanghai Expo 2010

The centerpiece of the Chinese Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai is a stunning animated digital tapestry that takes one of China’s most famous paintings and updates it for the 21st Century.

The computer animation's prediction of the oil spill after 360 days - April 15 2011 (Image: IPRC/SOEST/UHM)

Environment

Computer model predicts the spread of the BP oil spill after one year

SOEST researchers have produced an animated computer simulation that shows the potential spread of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill over a period of 360 days from when it started.