1. Virtual Humans -- Simple Machines for Scaling Human Motion -- Tracking and Modifying Upper-Body Human Motion Data with Dynamic Simulation -- Guiding and Interacting with Virtual Crowds -- Animation Levels of Detail Design for Real-Time Virtual Human -- Pro-actively Interactive Evolution for Computer Animation -- The Effects of Noise on the Perception of Animated Human Running -- 2. Collision Techniques -- A Model of Collision Perception for Real-Time Animation -- Keyframe Interpolation with Self-Collision Avoidance -- 3. Facial Animation and Communication -- MPEG-4-Based Animation with Face Feature Tracking -- Speech Driven Facial Animation -- Requirements for an Architecture for Embodied Conversational Characters -- 4. Animation Models -- Details and Implementation Issues of Animating Brachiation -- Interactive Multiresolution Animation of Deformable Models -- Building Layered Animation Models from Captured Data -- 5. Realism -- Reconstruction and Physically-based Animation of Trees from Static Images -- Heuristical Real-Time Shadows -- A Physics Based Multi-Resolution Model for the Simulation of Turbulent Gases and Combustion -- 6. Behavioral Animation -- Sensor Modeling for a Walking Robot Simulation -- The Kernel of a Scenario Language for Animation and Simulation -- Continuous Learning in a Behavioral Animation -- Appendix: Colour Illustrations.