Patent Document ID: 9805491
Application ID: 14942833
Patent Flag: 1

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 of the scene space on a display device; providing, to the user device, a camera view of a body in the display environment, the body including a tracked point present in the scene space, wherein the tracked point is a point on, or relative to, a portion of the body; associating one or more control mechanisms with the body, wherein a control mechanism of the one or more control mechanisms corresponds to a corresponding control parameter that defines movement of a corresponding portion of the body and/or a rate of movement in time of the portion of the body for changes in value of the corresponding control parameter, and wherein a plurality of control parameters define a parameter space distinct from the scene space with dimensions of the parameter space corresponding to the plurality of control parameters; associating at least some of the user inputs as inputs to the one or more control mechanisms, wherein changes in values of the plurality of control parameters specify animation details; providing, to the user device, in the camera view of the body, a motion path of the tracked point; receiving motion path user inputs corresponding to values of the motion path in the scene space; and translating, using an inverse mapping, the values of the motion path in the scene space into the values of the plurality of control parameters wherein when the body is animated, the values of the plurality of control parameters in the parameter space are such that the tracked point follows, at least approximately, the motion path in the scene space.