Abstract: A system for in-scene cloth modification that allows a user to make modifications to cloth during animation of objects associated with the cloth and have the new geometry updated in the in-scene cloth without having to start the animation from the beginning. Modified panels of the cloth are mapped into the counterpart panels of the simulated cloth by morphing the modified panels from a cloth definition into the space of the old panels in the scene. A relaxation of the cloth allows the new panel to take its natural shape in the animation. The mapping, when cloth is added, also includes finding each new panel vertex a location in the original or old panel.

Abstract: Three-dimensional scenes or movies are generated by a user of a computer system by interactively selecting a stage from among several available 3D stages, each of which has at least one predetermined feature such as a pedestal, lighting characteristics, a camera path or the like. The user may import predefined 3D objects into the selected stage and move and resize the objects as desired to compose a scene. Once composed, the scene is rendered to generate an image or a series of successive scenes is rendered to generate an animated movie.