Its flexible architecture allows animating different animation sources (formal and executable language like SDL or scenario languages like MSC or UML sequence diagrams).
At the same time the formal direction of the animation is completed, with lip assignments being made for each syllable of dialogue and every movement of each character detailed and assigned, even down to the moment that SpongeBob blinks.
Its joyful formal experimentation (films-within-films, Afrofuturistic animation, documentary inserts) and avoidance of conventional narrative signaled the arrival of a filmmaker refreshingly uninterested in cleaving to predetermined categories.
Formal subjective tests show that synthesized animations generated by the optimized talking head system match the corresponding audio naturally.
In most cases, interesting algorithm animations were designed, but no formal, systematic evaluations were conducted.
Animations generated by the optimal facial animation system are used for the following formal subjective tests.
Both schools enabled formal presentations of work: Brightfields screened one group's animation film; a Pennington group sent their collection of poems to the Queen.
Michael D. Eisner, the chief executive of Disney, and Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios, have already begun jousting ahead of formal negotiations over the Disney-Pixar joint venture, which ends in 2005.
Emily Hubley said she never had formal art training, "which is why I couldn't imagine going into animation as a kid".
However, it has been shown with VLsys [ 16] that iconic languages can be used without formal training, with progressive learning "on the fly", from tooltips and animations.
