A Design Tool for Improving Procedural Animation with Motion Capture Data
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چکیده
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 approaches have their con and pro. In this work, we aim to take advantages of these two methods to design an assisting tool for creating realistic human animation. We have designed a program to analyze motion capture data from a motion library and extract animation features that can be used to assist in setting appropriate parameters for procedural animation. This assisting tool compares the parameters between the motion capture data and procedural animation and adjusts the parameters of procedural animation automatically or semi-automatically to enhance the realism of animation. We use the animation of different walking styles as an example to demonstrate the use of this design tool.
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