The V-Man Project: Toward Autonomous Virtual Characters

There is no doubt that the seamless integration and simulation of highly realistic autonomous virtual characters within 3D real-time applications are two important and challenging technological objectives for virtual storytelling. The V-Man project aims at developing a Virtual Character Authoring and Animation toolkit optimized for real-time applications. The V-Man system provides very innovative and promising features such as techniques for 3D scanning real people, character casting and dressing, character/object interaction with real-time physics, voice interaction as well as cutting-edge character animation algorithms including an advanced locomotion system, a path and task planning engine as well as adaptive generation of motions.