Aug 4, 2010

Cool advancements in CG motion blur

Here are some intriguing animation examples from a paper delivered at SIGGRAPH 2010 about “Programmable Motion Effects.” The researchers were Johannes Schmid, Robert Sumner, Huw Bowles and Markus Gross. They experimented with different ways of adding motion lines as an alternative to traditional CGI motion blurring. Here is the paper abstract for those of you who speak CG:

As sophisticated as computer technology is nowadays, it amazes me that we have trouble figuring out how to recreate effects that animators achieved effortlessly seventy years ago. In terms of graphic sophistication and artistry, computer animation has always struck me as being one step forward, two steps back…