Patent ID: 11954814
Assignee: WOMBAT STUDIO, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer graphics production control method comprising:
receiving a computer model of a deformable character and modeling (1) a bone structure having plural bones and (2) skin, surrounding the bone structure, having plural skin regions such that skin regions of the plural skin regions are moved in relation to movements of respective bones of the plural bones;
providing a user interface for receiving input from a user for controlling the deformable character using a set of control points for controlling the plural bones, wherein the user interface includes a set of multi-style control points with varying transparency when displayed as the set of control points; and
displaying the deformable character in a computer graphics environment in response to the input received from the user using the user interface, wherein providing the user interface including the set of multi-style control points comprises:
determining a camera perspective of how the deformable character is being viewed by a camera;
displaying first portions of the set of multi-style control points in a first style when the first portions are visible from the determined camera perspective; and
displaying second portions of the set of multi-style control points in a second style when the second portions are occluded from the determined camera perspective.