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

Claim 18:
19. A computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory computer storage medium configured to store computer processor instructions configured to, when executed by a computer processor of a computer, cause the computer to be configured to:
receive 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;
provide a user interface for receiving input from a user for controlling the deformable character using a set of multi-style control points with varying transparency when displayed for controlling the plural bones by (a) determining a camera perspective of how the deformable character is being viewed by a camera, (b) 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 (c) 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; and
display the deformable character in a computer graphics environment in response to the input received from the user using the user interface.