Patent ID: 7830385
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: A63F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a rendering engine to animate a display of a computer-modeled character, the method comprising: accepting one or more first signals from a content provider at a first location to allow a control script author to specify one or more character actions for the computer-modeled character, wherein the character actions are specified by predetermined commands in a control script; animating a display of the computer-modeled character at a second location remote from the first location according to the one or more specified character actions to achieve the command-specified action, wherein default character actions are automatically specified at the second location if omitted by the control script author, and wherein an automatically specified character action includes a character's gait; accepting one or more second signals from the content provider to modify one or more of the character actions; and animating a display of the computer-modeled character at the second location according to the one or more modified character actions.