Patent Document ID: 20160078662
Application ID: 14942833
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer graphics animation method, wherein user inputs are received by a computer graphics application and motion sequences of elements of a geometric model in a scene space are output corresponding, at least approximately, to the user inputs, the method comprising: providing, to a user device, a display environment for presentation on a display device; providing, to the user device, a camera view of a body in the display environment, the body including at least one point, a configuration of the body being determined based on a plurality of control parameters, the camera view being defined in reference to a viewpoint of a virtual camera and having two or three spatial dimensions; providing, to the user device, in the camera view of the body, a motion path of the point; and associating one or more control mechanisms with the motion path, the control mechanisms being configured to control a movement of at least a portion of the body in space and a rate of the movement in time.