Randomly Accessible Procedural Animation of Physically Approximate Turbulent Motion

Parameter Spaces, Spacetime Control and Motion Graphs for Automating the Animation of Videogame Characters

Character animations are a crucial part of many interactive applications, from training simulations to videogames. As these applications have become more sophisticated, the growing number of character animations required has made standard animation techniques like key-framing and motion-capture increasingly expensive and time-consuming. Procedurally generating animations appears to offer a solu...

A Design Tool for Improving Procedural Animation with Motion Capture Data

Digital content industry is one of the Twin-Star projects in Taiwan. Among the various categories of digital contents, computer animation is the one that presents many technological challenges as well as many applications including computer games, films, TV and architectural design. Two common techniques in producing a computer animation are motion capture and procedural animation. Both approac...

Enhancing Procedural Animation with Motion Capture Data

Using Motion Capture Data to Optimize Procedural Animation

Procedural animation [1][3] has the advantage of being able to generate flexible animations according to high-level parameters while motion capture-based (MoCap-based) methods [2] have the advantage of creating realistic animations. In this paper, we attempt to use the data from motion capture to automatically find an optimal set of parameters that can be used to produce realistic animations fo...

Coordinated Motion Planning for 3d Animation – Using Chinese Lion Dance as an Example

Creating complex animations of human characters with simple high-level commands has been a design goal of animation software for a long time. Procedural animation is an effective approach in this direction aiming to creating animation with algorithmic description of how a motion is generated. Nevertheless, creating coordinated motion between animated characters has always been a great challenge...