My main project is Interactive Control of a Non Humanoid Character. In animation, there are a lot of characters that are not human that get animated to replicate one. For example, Bob from Monsters vs. Aliens, or the teapot and candle stick from Beauty and the Beast. Our goal is to take human motions that were captured from a motion capture data, and animate a non human character in real time.

I am working on this project with Kourtney Kebodeaux. She is also from the DREU program, if you are interested, here is the link to her website. http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw_archive/dmp/awards/2010/Kebodeaux/