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

Claim 9:
10. 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 a first input from a user for controlling the deformable character using a set of control points for controlling the plural bones;
displaying the deformable character in a computer graphics environment in response to the input received from the user using the user interface; and
providing camera rotation using locked objects by:
receiving from the user a second input indicating that a portion of a computer graphics scene has been locked in place;
receiving from the user a drag operation (a) starting at a start point within the computer graphics scene and (b) ending at an end point in the computer graphics scene;
determining if the start point is within the portion of the computer graphics scene that has been locked in place;
moving an object at the start point in the computer graphics scene to the end point in the computer graphics scene if the determining has determined that the start point is within the object and is not within the portion of the computer graphics scene that has been locked in place; and

rotating the camera based on a distance between the start and end point if the determining has determined that the start point is within the portion of the computer graphics scene that has been locked in place.