form a palette for the skin vertex to choose from.

Benefits and drawbacks

Strengths

* A bone represents a set of vertices (or some other object which represents something, such as a leg),
** The animator needs to control fewer characteristics of the model,
*** The animator can focus on the large-scale motion,
** Bones are independently movable.
* An animation can be defined by simple movements of the bones, instead of vertex by vertex (in the case of a polygonal mesh).

Weaknesses

1.Previous
3.Next