Animation planning for virtual characters cooperation

Animation Planning for Virtual Mannequins Cooperation

This paper presents an approach to automatically compute animations for virtual (human or robot) mannequins cooperating to move bulky objects in cluttered environments. The main challenge is to deal with 3D collision avoidance while preserving the believability of the agents behaviors. To accomplish the coordinated task, a geometric and kinematic decoupling of the system is proposed. This decom...

Animation of Natural Virtual Characters

Real Time Rendering and Animation of Virtual Characters

—In this paper, we focus on the different aspects of real time visualization and animation of realistic virtual characters. The common goal for our research was to come up with solutions based on the concepts of the ISO standard X3D and if necessary propose generalized extensions to the standard. First we describe a high level control language and its implementation suitable for non-graphics ex...

Animating and Rendering Virtual Humans - Extending X3D for Real Time Rendering and Animation of Virtual Characters

In this paper, we focus on the different aspects of real time visualization and animation of realistic virtual characters. The common goal was to come up with solutions based on the concepts of the open ISO standard X3D and if necessary to propose generalized extensions to the standard. First we describe the high level control language PML and its implementation, which is also suitable for non-...

Computer Animation for Articulated 3D Characters

We present a review of the computer animation literature, mainly concentrating on articulated characters and at least some degree of interactivity or real time simulation. Advances in different techniques such as key-frame, motion capture (also known as mocap), dynamics, inverse kinematics (IK), controller systems, and even neural networks are discussed. We try to analyze these methods from dif...