Determination of Force Fields for Ode-based and Skeleton Driven Character Animation

L. H. You, X. S. Yang, X. Jin, E. Chaudhry, Jian J. Zhang

2013

Abstract

In the existing work, character modelling and animation are two separate tasks. After a character model is built, a lot of time and efforts are still required to animate the character model. Ordinary differential equation-based surface modelling and animation using physically based deformable curves to define and deform skin surfaces of 3D character models. With such a technique, character modelling and animation can be integrated into a unified framework by introducing time-dependent varying force fields into ordinary differential equations. This paper addresses the issue of determination of the force fields and proposes three models, i. e. linear transformation model, interpolation model and extrapolation model, to obtain time-dependent varying force fields. Some application examples are presented which demonstrates the force fields obtained from the three models create believable skin deformations of character models.

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You L., Yang X., Jin X., Chaudhry E. and Zhang J. (2013). Determination of Force Fields for Ode-based and Skeleton Driven Character Animation . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-46-4, pages 115-118. DOI: 10.5220/0004297301150118


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@conference{grapp13,
author={L. H. You and X. S. Yang and X. Jin and E. Chaudhry and Jian J. Zhang},
title={Determination of Force Fields for Ode-based and Skeleton Driven Character Animation },
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={115-118},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004297301150118},
isbn={978-989-8565-46-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)
TI - Determination of Force Fields for Ode-based and Skeleton Driven Character Animation
SN - 978-989-8565-46-4
AU - You L.
AU - Yang X.
AU - Jin X.
AU - Chaudhry E.
AU - Zhang J.
PY - 2013
SP - 115
EP - 118
DO - 10.5220/0004297301150118