Modern technology and computer science is spreading and developing very fast. The use and facilities evolve too. One of the fields where computer science is widely used – computer games. Computer animation makes games more interactive and attractive to the user. The purpose of this project was to review and analyze the animation techniques used in modern games development. Review file formats witch are used in computer games to store game objects and animation data. Try to point out the strengths and weaknesses of animation techniques. Main attention was committed to skeletal and key frame animation. Implement skeletal and key frame animation techniques.

Darbo tikslas. Įvertinti šiuolaikinės animacijos sąsajas su Vilniaus miesto mokyklų 4 – 7 klasių mokinių elgesiu ir savijauta. Tyrimo metodika. Dvylikoje Vilniaus miesto mokyklų anketiniu būdu buvo apklausti 4-7 klasių 1 007 mokiniai (iš jų 49,2 proc. mergaičių ir 50,8 proc. berniukų. Statistinė duomenų analizė atlikta naudojantis statistiniu paketu SPSS (Statistical Paskarte for Social Siences) 17.0 versija. Duomenų skirtumo patikimumui įvertinti naudotas Chi- kvadrato (χ²) ir Fišerio (2x2 lentelėje) testas. Tam, kad įvertinti skirtumą tarp grupių buvo naudota WinPepi programa. Skirtumas laikytas statistiškai reikšmingu, kai p≤0,05. Ranginiams neparametriniams duomenims analizuoti pasitelkti Mann ir Whitney U, o esant daugiau nei dviejų nepriklausomų imčių palyginimui Kruscal‘o Wallis‘o testai. Ieškant koreliacinių ryšių tarp kintamųjų, naudoti keli statistiniai ryšio stiprumą ir kryptį rodantys koeficientai: Spearmano koreliacijos koeficientas taikytas nesimetriškiems tolydiems dydžiams (kuo šio koeficiento reikšmė artimesnė -1 arba 1, tuo ryšys tarp kintamųjų yra stipresnis) bei kontingencijos koeficientas, ryšio tarp kintamųjų matmuo netolydiems kintamiesiems. Kintamojo veiksnio tikimybei apskaičiuoti taikyta binarinė logistinė regresija. Rezultatai. Tyrimo duomenimis, visų amžiaus grupių vaikai žiūri animaciją ne ilgiau kaip tris valandas. Animacijos žiūrėjimui jaunesni vaikai dažniau renkasi rytines valandas, o šeštokai ir septintokai vidudienio valandas... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Aim of study. To evaluate the connection between contemporary animation and 4 -7 grade schoolchildren behavior and sence of health in Vilnius. Methods. 1 007 of 4 -7 grade schoolchildren (49.2 % of girls and 50.8 % of boys) were interviewed by questionnaire-based way in twelve schools of Vilnius. The statistical analysis was performed using the statistical SPSS package (Statistical Paskarte for Social Siences) 17.0 version. Chi- square and Fišher (2x2 table) tests were used to evaluate the data difference reliability. WinPepi program was used to evaluate the difference between groups. The difference was statistically significant, when p≤0,05. Mann ir Whitney U tests were used to analyze the rank and non-parametric data. Kruscal Wallis test was used to analize more than two independent equations. To find correlations between variables some statistical coefficients were used showing the strength and direction: Spearman‘s koreliation coefficient was used in asymmetric constant values (as this rate is close to -1 or 1, the relationship between variables is stronger) and contingency coefficient, relationship between variables dimension for discontinuous variables. Binary logistic regression was used to calculate the variable probability factor. Results. Survey data shows that children of all ages are watching animation no longer than three hours. Younger children often prefer the eastern hours to watch animation, sixth and seventh grade students prefer the noon hours. It was... [to full text]

Šokis ir aerobika yra judesių programų pavyzdžiai - jos susideda iš tam tikra tvarka surikiuotų, pakartotinai naudojamų komponenčių. Norint efektyviai modeliuoti tokias programas, reikalinga formali žmogaus judesių notacija. Pasinaudoję esamomis priemonėmis (3D modeliavimo įrankiai, OGRE grafikos variklis, H-Anim) ir sukūrę savas, realizavome procedūrinių humanoido animacijų veikimo schemą. Ji leidžia sudaryti žmogaus judesių programą ir yra nesunkiai suprantama net ir tiems, kurie neturi animacijos ar trimačio modeliavimo patirties. Procedūrinės animacijos užrašomos XML formatu. Jas pavaizduoja mūsų peržiūros programa. Formatas leidžia abstrahuoti judesius į "procedūras", juos apjungti į sekas ir kaupti judesių bibliotekas. Turint pavienių judesių komponentes, procedūrinės animacijos kūrimas, pildymas ar keitimas yra žymiai paprastesnis ir lankstesnis, be to, tokia animacija yra nepriklausoma nuo humanoido modelio geometrijos. / Dance and aerobics are examples of movement programs – they consist of reusable components laid out in particular order. Efficient modeling of such programs requires the usage of some formal movement notation. With the help of existing tools and standards (3D modeling packages, OGRE graphics engine, H-Anim), as well as utilizing the ones we designed ourselves, we have implemented procedural humanoid animation schema. It allows for creating human movement programs and is easy to grasp even for those with no experience in animation or 3D modeling. Procedural animations are written in XML and visualized by our viewer software. Using our format, one can abstract movements into "procedures", combine them into sequences and store them in movement libraries. With all the individual movements at hand, creating, extending and modifying a procedural animation is much more simple and flexible. Moreover, this kind of animation is independent of model's geometry.

Many variety computer systems for advanced mathematics are now being used by hundreds of thousands of engineers, scientists and students across a broad range of exact science disciplines to perform calculations, drawing, to interface with other programs, and to publish their “live” documents on the Web. Maple, Mathcad and Matlab are computer systems for advanced mathematics and a rich problem-solving environments that gives you a wide choice of tools and supports a variety of analysis and visualization techniques. They provide many ways of representing data and mathematical expressions graphically using plots. They also have unique animating of graphs. Animation feature allows you to see a plot change in real time when the value of a variable changes. In this paper, we investigated and compared the creating, controling and using animation in Maple, Mathcad and Matlab and give animation examples for teaching mathematics. The main stress of this research work was to clear and to explain ways for practical use of animation as this area of computer systems has not been investigated in Lithuania yet.

Šokis ir aerobika yra judesių programų pavyzdžiai - jos susideda iš tam tikra tvarka surikiuotų, pakartotinai naudojamų komponenčių. Norint efektyviai modeliuoti tokias programas, reikalinga formali žmogaus judesių notacija. Pasinaudoję esamomis priemonėmis (3D modeliavimo įrankiai, OGRE grafikos variklis, H-Anim) ir sukūrę savas, realizavome procedūrinių humanoido animacijų veikimo schemą. Ji leidžia sudaryti žmogaus judesių programą ir yra nesunkiai suprantama net ir tiems, kurie neturi animacijos ar trimačio modeliavimo patirties. Procedūrinės animacijos užrašomos XML formatu. Jas pavaizduoja mūsų peržiūros programa. Formatas leidžia abstrahuoti judesius į "procedūras", juos apjungti į sekas ir kaupti judesių bibliotekas. Turint pavienių judesių komponentes, procedūrinės animacijos kūrimas, pildymas ar keitimas yra žymiai paprastesnis ir lankstesnis, be to, tokia animacija yra nepriklausoma nuo humanoido modelio geometrijos. / Dance and aerobics are examples of movement programs – they consist of reusable components laid out in particular order. Efficient modeling of such programs requires the usage of some formal movement notation. With the help of existing tools and standards (3D modeling packages, OGRE graphics engine, H-Anim), as well as utilizing the ones we designed ourselves, we have implemented procedural humanoid animation schema. It allows for creating human movement programs and is easy to grasp even for those with no experience in animation or 3D modeling. Procedural animations are written in XML and visualized by our viewer software. Using our format, one can abstract movements into "procedures", combine them into sequences and store them in movement libraries. With all the individual movements at hand, creating, extending and modifying a procedural animation is much more simple and flexible. Moreover, this kind of animation is independent of model's geometry.

Character‘s animation is the most complicated, but at the same time the most important field of the computer animation. The main problem is related with realistic, flexible representation of human motion, when complex and large computations occur. Hybrid, human motion analyzing algorithm has been introduced theoretically. This algorithm is based on input of constraints, and one of the main constrains is mass distribution of human parts. Transitional motion representations are build, and their adjustment are computed while using aproxsimation of multiresolution B-splines. Advantage of this algorithm is that for calculation universal spline handling metric can be used, but disadvantage – there is no optimal algorithm.

The thesis “Development of artistic perception by means of animation at out-of-school activities of 12-16 year old pupils” was worked out to analyze ways and possibilities of pedagogical impact by means of animation, as well as to elaborate the influence of the theory and practice of animation on artistic perception. The aim of this study work is to reveal development possibilities of artistic perception through animation. The subject of the research paper is many-sided artistic perception of school children from 12 to 16 years of age and its development. Brief history of animation origination and formation in the world, its development in Lithuania as well as pedagogical methods of application of Lithuanian animation are presented in the first part of the thesis. Second part of the study work elaborates on animation terms and the description of its specifics. Presumptions of pedagogical and psychological impact on teenagers, visual (screen) communications, including animation, are also reviewed in the second part. The third part examines development of artistic perception in the process of creation of animation films. An experiment carried out in animation school along with questionnaires reflecting viewpoints of secondary school children and animation hobby groups also find its description in the third part. This part also analyses the differences in artistic perception. Survey data are being illustrated via diagrams. The whole research paper confirmed that animation... [to full text]

Statkutė, K. Koliažas Stop kadro animacijoje. Darbo vadovas: doc. A. Uogintas; Šiaulių universitetas, Menų fakultetas, Audiovizualinio meno katedra – Šiauliai, 2010. – 28 p. Kūrybinis darbas – Stop kadro animacinis filmas „Kelias tolimas“. Koliažas Stop kadro animacijoje. Šiame bakalauro darbe analizuojami du meninės raiškos būdai ir jų sintezė – koliažas ir sustabdyto kadro animacija. Pateikiamas video darbas emigracijos tema. Rašto darbo teorinėje dalyje nagrinėjamas koliažas, jo atsiradimas, technologijos, bruožai, aprašomi kai kurie animacijos kūrimo būdai ir technologijos. Autorės nuomone, turintys sąsają su jos kurtu video darbu. Plačiau nagrinėjama ir aptariama stop kadro animacija. Socialinis emigracijos aktualumas kūrybiniame darbe virsta meniniu objektu, turinčiu aiškią motyvaciją, priežastis ir tikslus. Lengva parodijos forma ir sarkazmo prieskoniu kurtas filmas pristatomas kaip savotiška šios temos interpretacija. / Statkutė, K. Stop-motion animation collage. Labour leader: associate professor A. Uogintas; Šiaulių University, Faculty of Arts, Multimedia Arts Department - Šiauliai, 2010. - 28 p. Creative work - stop frame animated film „Long way“. Stop-frame animation collage. This bachelor's work analyzes two forms of artistic expression and synthesis - collage and Stop-frame. A video work emigration. Writing in the theoretical work dealt with a collage of his appearance, technology, features, presented in the animation building techniques and technologies. The author with a link to the video work of Kurt. Discusses the wider issue stop-motion animation. The social relevance of the creative work of emigration turns into the artistic object, having a clear motivation for the reasons and goals. Easy to parody in the form of sarcasm and flair for film is presented as a sort of interpretations.

Diplominiame darbe nagrinėjama pasaka, kaip meninis/socialinis reiškinys. Keliamas tikslas – remiantis pasakų prasmės analize, parodyti kaip transformuojamas pasakų pasaulis iš žodinio į vaizdinį, bei sukurti animuotą pasaką. Šio tikslo siekiama aiškinantis pasakų reikšmę ir prasmę, bei aptariant absurdo pasakos žanrą, pasirinktą kūrybiniam projektui.Kūrybinėje darbo dalyje sukurtas mišrių technologijų animacinis filmas pagal Gabrieliaus Mackevičiaus absurdo pasaką „Senelis“. Filmas sukurtas koliažo technologijos principu, remiantis popartu, bei absurdo teatrui būdingais lėliškais – mechaniškais judesiais. / In this bachelor’s work fairy-tale is studying, like artistic/social phenomenon. Raising a goal – with reference fairy-tale’s meaning analysis, to show how fairy-tale’s world it is transformed from verbal to visual, and to create animated fairy-tale. This goal is reaching by explaining fairy-tales meaning and sense, and discussing absurdity tale genre, taken for creative project. In the creative part of this project mixed technology animated cartoon was made by Gabrielius Mackevičius absurdity fairy-tale „Senelis“. Animated cartoon was created using collage technology, in accordance with pop art and Absurdity Theater typical puppet – mechanical movements.

Šiame bakalauro darbe išanalizuotas medžio fenomenas vaizduojamajame mene įvairiais laikotarpiais. Vaizduojamasis menas – tai šiuolaikinis pranešimas, įeinantis į medijos sąvoką. Medija apima fotografiją, kinematografiją, videografiją bei žiniasklaidą. Senovės lietuvių simboliai, ornamentai, raštai – visa tai taip pat yra vaizduojamasis menas. Šiai temai atskleisti buvo išnagrinėtas medžio vaizdavimas lietuvių liaudies mene ir mitologijoje. Taip pat buvo išnagrinėta medžio samprata bei funkcijos šiuolaikinių medijų perspektyvoje. Išanalizuotas medžio vaizdavimas ir svarba šiuolaikinių menininkų darbuose. Sukurtas animacinis filmukas „Medis”. / This movie, presented as the final work for the Bachelor’s degree in visual arts, analyses the phenomenon of a tree. Visual art – is a contemporary message, embraced in the “woody” concept. Wood resides in various artistic means: photography, cinematography, videography as well as media. Therefore, ancient Lithuanian symbols, ornaments and scripts also are forms of visual art. This animation reveals “tree” representation in Lithuanian folk art and mythology. It depicts not only the meaning of a tree but also a function in the contemporary perspective of “woodyness”, analyzing it’s visualization and importance in the works of the modern artists. Stop motion animation “Tree”.