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Efficient Simulation of Secondary Motion in Rig-Space
(ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Association, 2013)
We present an efficient method for augmenting keyframed character animations with physically-simulated secondary motion. Our method achieves a performance improvement of one to two orders of magnitude over previous work ...
Authoring Motion Cycles
(ACM, 2017)
Motion cycles play an important role in animation production and game development. However, creating motion cycles relies on general-purpose animation packages with complex interfaces that require expert training. Our work ...
CANVAS: Computer-Assisted Narrative Animation Synthesis
(The Eurographics Association, 2016)
Despite the maturity in solutions for animating expressive virtual characters, innovations realizing the creative intent of story writers have yet to make the same strides. The key challenge is to provide an accessible, ...
Hierarchical Planning and Control for Complex Motor Tasks
(ACM Siggraph, 2015)
We present a planning and control framework that enables physically simulated characters to perform various types of motor tasks. To create physically-valid motion plans, our method uses a hierarchical set of simplified ...
Differential Blending for Expressive Sketch-Based Posing
(ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Association, 2013)
Generating highly expressive and caricatured poses can be difficult in 3D computer animation because artists must interact with characters indirectly through complex character rigs. Furthermore, since caricatured poses ...
Sketch Abstractions for Character Posing
(ACM Siggraph, 2015)
We propose a sketch-based posing system for rigged 3D characters that allows artists to create custom sketch abstractions on top of a character's actual shape. A sketch abstraction is composed of rigged curves that form ...