Final Project CSC474 -- Jack Skellington Particle Effects

Brandon Bussjaeger -- bbussjae at calpoly

Fall 2012

The program features a heirarchically modeled Jack Skellington mesh (found on turbosquid.com) walking through a pumpkin patch. A particle system is used to set Jack's head on fire.

Features

• Jack follows a 12 point path using a catmull rom spline
• Jack is heirarchically modeled with a head, body, upper arms, lower arms, hands, upper legs, and lower legs
• Each part of Jack above is moved on repeat using quaternions as keyframes
• Jack's head is on fire using a particle system of 2000 particles
• Each particle is independent of the others, changing color, position, and transparency to simulate fire
• The particles avoid the inside of Jack's head by moving outside of a bounding box
• Phong shading for lighting, and custom pumpkins
• Download the entire tar.gz file here. Makefile runs on Linux machines.