IMAGINE - Intuitive Modelling and Animation for the next Generation of Interactive Narrative Environments
IMAGINE is a future project being prepared by INRIA Grenoble
The challenge we aim to address is user-centred efficient, interactive creation of digital 3D content,
focusing on intuitive methodologies for conveying user intent. This includes developing representations,
procedural methods and interactive control tools within three focal areas:
- Shape design: We aim to create intuitive tools for designing 3D shapes, from arbitrary ones to
shapes that obey application-dependent constraints (such as, for instance, being developable to
model virtual objects made of cloth or of paper).
- Animation: Our goal is to design methods to convey and control 3D motion and deformation, from
motion of passive objects and mechanisms to plausible complex animation of virtual creatures.
- Narrative design: Lastly, we aim to develop methodologies for designing narrative content (stories)
for virtual creatures and cameras on virtual stages, as a way to replace physical storyboard, and
other direction, casting, and editing tools.
The vision of the IMAGINE team is to build such tools into an interactive narrative environment where all
the stages of geometric modelling, animation and story-telling are seamlessly integrated.