Generation of Character Motion by Reactive Motion Capture System

Generating character motion from motion capture systems is difficult because they require a variety of task environments. To overcome this drawback, we constructed a reactive motion capture system that combines a conventional motion capture system with force feedback device and visual information in the human-scale virtual environment. Our purpose is to make character animations with character motion data generated from the interaction with force feedback and the virtual environment, using the fact that a person’s motion in the real world can be represented by the reactions of the person to real objects. In this research, we made animations via several scenarios for animating character motion generation with the reactive motion capture system. The results demonstrated that character motion generated by the developed system was useful for producing the animation, which includes the scene of reactive motion.