Abstract
GORDON COLLINS and ADRIAN HILTON present a review of methods for the construction and deformation of character models. They consider both state of the art research and common practice. In particular they review applications, data capture methods, manual model construction, polygonal, parametric and implicit surface representations, basic geometric deformations, free form deformations, subdivision surfaces, displacement map schemes and physical deformation. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.