Okan Arikan CEO at Animeeple Inc.

Contact: okan 'at' animeeple.com

(Most effective way of reaching me)

Bio

I got my MS and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. While I was at Berkeley, I worked on various topic spanning scalable simulation, photorealistic rendering and motion synthesis.

Then I joined the University of Texas, Computer Sciencesdepartment in Fall 2005 as an assistant professor and started working on techniques to make 3D content easier to use and share.

To facilitate this idea further, I started Animeeple Inc. in 2008 where I currently work.

Frankenrigs: Building Character Rigs From Multiple Sources
Christian Miller, Okan Arikan, Don Fussell
Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2010
Generalizing Motion Edits with Gaussian Processes
Leslie Ikemoto, Okan Arikan, David Forsyth
Transactions on Graphics, 2009
Real-Time Ambient Occlusion for Dynamic Character Skins
Adam Kirk, Okan Arikan
Symposium on Interactive 3D
Graphics and Games (I3D) 2007
Quick Transitions With Cached Multi-Way Blends
Leslie Ikemoto, Okan Arikan, David Forsyth
Symposium on Interactive 3D
Graphics and Games (I3D) 2007
Hardware Accelerated Ambient Occlusion on GPUs
Perumaal Shanmugam, Okan Arikan
Symposium on Interactive 3D
Graphics and Games (I3D) 2007
Compression of Motion Capture Databases
Okan Arikan
ACM Transactions on Graphics
(ACM SIGGRAPH 2006)
Knowing When to Put Your Foot Down
Leslie Ikemoto, Okan Arikan, David Forsyth
Symposium on Interactive 3D
Graphics and Games (I3D) 2006
Pushing People Around
Okan Arikan, David Forsyth, James O'Brien
Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2005
Fast and Detailed Approximate Global Illumination by Irradiance Decomposition
Okan Arikan, David Forsyth, James O'Brien
ACM Transactions on Graphics
(ACM SIGGRAPH 2005)
Motion Synthesis from Annotations
Okan Arikan, David Forsyth, James O'Brien
ACM Transactions on Graphics
(ACM SIGGRAPH 2003)
Animating Suspended Particle Explosions
Bryan Feldman, James O'Brien, Okan Arikan
ACM Transactions on Graphics
(ACM SIGGRAPH 2003)
Motion Synthesis & Retargeting
Okan Arikan, David Forsyth
ACM Transactions on Graphics
(ACM SIGGRAPH 2002)

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