Generative Animation in a Physics Engine using Motion Captures

Brian Wilke, Sudhanshu K. Semwal

2017

Abstract

Motion captures are an industry standard for producing high-quality, realistic animations. However, generating novel animations from motion captures remains a complex, non-trivial problem. Many techniques have been developed, including kinematics and manually solving the equations of motion. We present a new technique using a physics engine to generate novel animations. Motion captures are effectively simulated within a popular open-source physics engine, Bullet, and two generative techniques are applied. These generative techniques -- asymmetric scaling and under-controlling -- are shown to be simple and straight-forward. The techniques and methods were implemented in Python and C++, and show new promising avenues for generative animation using existing motion captures

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Wilke B. and Semwal S. (2017). Generative Animation in a Physics Engine using Motion Captures . In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-224-0, pages 250-257. DOI: 10.5220/0006134702500257


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@conference{grapp17,
author={Brian Wilke and Sudhanshu K. Semwal},
title={Generative Animation in a Physics Engine using Motion Captures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={250-257},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006134702500257},
isbn={978-989-758-224-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)
TI - Generative Animation in a Physics Engine using Motion Captures
SN - 978-989-758-224-0
AU - Wilke B.
AU - Semwal S.
PY - 2017
SP - 250
EP - 257
DO - 10.5220/0006134702500257