Computer animation has become more prominent in movies and games over the past decade. Programs like Alice make computer animation accessible to beginners by combining programming with intuitive vocabulary. Advances in motion capture and technology have made computer-generated animation highly realistic, setting a new standard where unrealistic graphics are seen as failures. Free and open source programs like Blender further lower barriers to animation.

1. Modern Computer Animation
Collin Commiskey

2. Animation Technology
 Computer animation has become more prominent
in the past decade in both games and more recently
movies.
 Programs such as Alice are great tools for
individuals beginning to learn computer animation.

3. Alice
 Programs such as Alice are
great tools for individuals
beginning to learn computer
animation.
 Alice combines
programming methods with
more non-programmer-
friendly vocabulary.

4. Evolution of Computer Graphics
 With new technology, including motion capture,
computer-generated animation has become extremely
lifelike.
While older graphics and animations were
entertaining, the bar has been set much higher now:
if it is not realistic enough, the popular consensus will
be “failure”.

5. Motion Capture Technology
 Tracks the human form, converts into a more
convincing movement from actor into a movie or
game character.

6. New Free Animation Programs
 Blender: Developed as a free, open source animation
program through funding.
- With programs
like this available
for free, it won’t be
long before it is
nearly impossible
for us to tell the
difference between
reality and man-
made beings and
environments.

7. New Free Animation Programs
 Blender: Developed as a free, open source animation
program through funding.
- With programs
like this available
for free, it won’t be
long before it is
nearly impossible
for us to tell the
difference between
reality and man-
made beings and
environments.