Patent ID: 7333112

Claim:
A method of creating a baked component approximating the behavior of a model component used to pose a character model, the method comprising: identifying at least a portion of the character model associated with the model component; manipulating the character model through each of a set of training poses, wherein the set of training poses are representative of a range of motion of the character model and defined by a set of inputs; determining a set of training posing errors from the set of training poses for at least one point of the character model, wherein each of the set of training posing errors is at least one difference in position of the point of a character model from a geometrically posed position to at least one position specified by the model component; and analyzing the set of training posing errors to determine a relationship between the set of inputs and the set of training posing errors; wherein the set of inputs includes a set of animation variables and wherein a portion of the set of animation variables are joint rotation angles expressed in a defrobulated form; and displaying the posted character model.