Character Motion Control by Using Limited Sensors and Animation Data

Character Animation from Motion Capture Data

Motion Grammars for Character Animation

The behavioral structure of human movements is imposed by multiple sources, such as rules, regulations, choreography, habits, and emotion. Our goal is to identify the behavioral structure in a specific application domain and create a novel sequence of movements that abide by structure-building rules. To do so, we exploit the ideas from formal language, such as rewriting rules and grammar parsin...

Motion Graphs in Character Animation

This paper introduces the use of motion graphs in the field of character animation. First we will see how motion capture works. The paper then shows an approach how one can improve the use of motion capturing data to gain more control over the character. It will be explaind what are motion graphs and how to build them out of a set of different motion clips. After that it is shown how the result...

Motion Fields for Interactive Character Animation

We propose a novel representation of motion data and control which gives characters highly agile responses to user input and allows a natural handling of arbitrary external disturbances. Our representation organizes samples of motion data into a high-dimensional generalization of a vector field which we call a motion field. Our run-time motion synthesis mechanism freely flows through the motion...

Evaluating Data Driven Character Animation

Humanlike characters are an important area of computer animation. These characters are vital components of many applications, such as computer games, cinematic special effects, virtual reality training, and artistic expression. There are two main challenges to animating humanlike characters. First, our daily familiarity with human motion makes creating realistic humanlike motion particularly di...