Patent ID: 6972765

Claim:
A process for creating on a graphic computer interface three-dimensional animated graphical images representing scenes with at least one of the categories in the group comprising objects and characters; the graphical images having been designed by a designer-operator to be animated interactively, in real time, by the users for whom such interactively animated images are intended, the process comprising the following steps: the step of selecting from libraries of objects, or libraries of characters or libraries comprising objects and characters, at least one object, or one character or one object and one character, the step of displaying the object, or the character, or the object and the character on the graphic interface, the step of selecting the behavior of an object, or of a character or of an object and a character from behavior libraries, the behaviors reacting in whole or in part interactively, in real time, to efforts on the part of the users, intervening by means of an operating control, the step of assigning the selected behavior to an object or a character appearing on the graphic interface, the step of assembling on a graphic interface, according to the sequences and the tree structures of an interactive animated script, in the course of being designed, visual elements symbolizing the relevant objects or characters or the relevant objects and characters involved with the animated scene as well as the behaviors that are attributed to the objects, or to the characters or to the objects and characters, the visual elements symbolizing the behaviors having at least one input terminal to allow a connection with the objects, or the characters or the objects and characters, at least one of the visual elements symbolizing a behavior of waiting for a user's action, this visual element having an input or output terminal connected to another visual element symbolizing behavior, so that it is possible to visualize the different sequences and the tree structures of the interactive animated script as the animated script is in the process of being designed.