Patent Document ID: 20090179900
Application ID: 12408585
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for exporting animation data from a native animation environment to animation data for a non-native animation environment a computer system comprising: determining a first plurality of poses associated with an object in response to a first model for the object in a native animation environment and to a plurality of animation variables associated with the object in the computer system; determining a second model for the object, wherein the second model comprises a geometric model of the object; determining a second plurality of poses associated with the object in response to the second model for the object and to the plurality of animation variables in the computer system; determining a plurality of surface errors in response to a comparison between the first plurality of poses and the second plurality of poses in the computer system; determining a plurality of corrective offsets associated with the object in response to the plurality of surface errors in the computer system; determining a plurality of actuation values associated with the plurality of corrective offsets in response to the plurality of surface errors and to the plurality of corrective offsets in the computer system; determining a third model for the object compatible with a non-native animation environment in response to the second plurality of poses, the plurality of corrective offsets, and the plurality of actuation values in the computer system; and storing the third model for the object in a memory associated with the computer system.