Animation Systems Questions

Comprehensive coverage of animation system architecture and runtime integration for games and interactive applications. Topics include skeletal and bone based animation, keyframe and frame based playback and time based sampling, animation state machines and transition logic, blend trees and blending strategies, animation layering and priority resolution, and event driven animation triggers and callbacks. Also covers root motion handling, inverse kinematics and retargeting, animation asset pipelines, tooling and data formats used to author and export animations, compression techniques and memory footprint considerations, profiling and runtime performance optimization, multithreaded playback and concurrency models, and synchronization of animations with rendering and physics subsystems. For networked environments this includes interpolation, prediction, and replication strategies for animated actors. Candidates should be able to design animation architectures, choose blending and transition strategies, reason about quality versus performance trade offs, optimize runtime playback and memory usage, and describe tooling and workflows used to author, compress, debug, and profile animations in production.