I am a graduate student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I work in the Graphics Lab and am advised by Jessica Hodgins and Yaser Sheikh.
I am interested in bridging the gap between computers and traditional artists' tools. In particular, my focus is animators and animation.
The traditional medium for animators is pencil-and-paper, just as the traditional medium for potters is wet clay. Animators and potters like to wake up in the morning because they look forward to a day of feeling the pencil or clay interact with their hands. A potter would balk at the prospect of designing their pot using a CAD tool- wet clay is their element. The same holds for a hand animator.
My current research project attempts to allow hand animators to create 3D animation while still working the traditional medium of pencil-and-paper.(SCA 2009)
Other projects include learning to play the flute, and learning to knit and purl with the goal of making a muffler by the time it snows this year.