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Extreme Engineering: Collection Two
DescriptionImagine driving across a bridge near the North Pole, leaving Alaska at one end and arriving in Siberia at the other end. What if you could visit an entire city built within a pyramid in Tokyo Bay or speed from New York to London in just an hour through a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean? [...]
The Early Earth and Plate Tectonics
The Earth is formed by accretion of spatial particulates and large masses and eventually formes an outer crust. Video follows with speculation of early plates and land masses and their movement through time. **Clip taken from National Geographics**
Bringing Hand Animations to Life
Key framing involves dragging each joint of the character’s hand to create a pose. This can be done using inverse kinematics or forward kinematics. When using inverse kinematics the animator will drag the end of a finger, for example, to a position. The computer will calculate the joint angles necessary to get the end of [...]
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