{"id":1582,"date":"2020-09-12T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2020-09-12T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:19:55","slug":"monster-mash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/monster-mash\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Mash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past January I had the incredible good fortune to fall sideways into a wonderful graphics research project. How it came about is pure serendipity: I had coffee with my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/salesin.cs.washington.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">advisor from UW<\/a>, who&#8217;d recently started at Google. He asked if I&#8217;d like to test out some experimental sketch-based animation software one of his summer interns was developing. I said sure, thinking I might spend an hour or two&#8230; but the software was so much fun to use, I couldn&#8217;t stop playing with it. One thing led to another, and now we have a paper in SIGGRAPH Asia 2020!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever wished you could just jot down a 3D character and animate it super quick, without all that tedious modeling, rigging and keyframing? That&#8217;s what <a href=\"https:\/\/dcgi.fel.cvut.cz\/home\/sykorad\/monster_mash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monster Mash<\/a> is for: casual 3D animation. Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LbjF-MylQzk\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past January I had the incredible good fortune to fall sideways into a wonderful graphics research project. How it came about is pure serendipity: I had coffee with my advisor from UW, who&#8217;d recently started at Google. He asked if I&#8217;d like to test out some experimental sketch-based animation software one of his summer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/monster-mash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monster Mash<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,123,83,15,17],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-fun","category-graphics","category-interactive","category-npar","category-personal","tag-monster-mash-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}