1. Motion Capture and Control -- Markerless Motion Capture of Complex Full-Body Movement for Character Animation -- Implementation of a 3D Virtual Drummer -- 2. Deformations for Animation -- Animating with the "Multidimensional deformation tool" -- Mixing Triangle Meshes and Implicit Surfaces in Character Animation -- 3. Natural Phenomena -- Visual Simulation of Smoke and Fire -- Phenomenological Simulation of Brooks -- An interactive forest -- Meshes on Fire -- 4. Physically-based Animation -- Continuous deformation energy for Dynamic Material Splines subject to finite displacements -- Deformed Distance Fields for Simulation of Non-Penetrating Flexible Bodies -- Real-Time Simulation of Deformation and Fracture of Stiff Materials -- 5. Hair Animation -- A Simple Physics Model to Animate Human Hair Modeled in 2D Strips in Real Time -- A Layered Wisp Model for Simulating Interactions inside Long Hair -- 6. High Level Motion Planning -- Efficient Multi-Agent Path Planning -- Crowd simulation for interactive virtual environments and VR training systems -- The Orchestration of Behaviours using Resources and Priority Levels -- Evolution and Cooperation of Virtual Entities with Classifier Systems -- Appendix: Colour Illustrations.