AniMesh: Interleaved animation, modeling, and editing

Ming Jin; Dan Gopstein; Yotam Gingold; Andrew Nealen

doi:10.1145/2816795.2818114

AniMesh: Interleaved animation, modeling, and editing

Ming Jin, Dan Gopstein, Yotam Gingold, Andrew Nealen

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We introduce AniMesh, a system that supports interleaved modeling and animation creation and editing. AniMesh is suitable for rapid prototyping and easily accessible to non-experts. Source animations can be obtained from commodity motion capture devices or by adapting canned motion sequences. We propose skeleton abstraction and motion retargeting algorithms for finding correspondences and transferring motion between skeletons, or portions of skeletons, with varied topology. Motion can be copied-and-pasted between kinematic chains with different skeletal topologies, and entire model parts can be cut and reattached, while always retaining plausible, composite animations.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	207
Journal	ACM Transactions on Graphics
Volume	34
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2816795.2818114
State	Published - Nov 2015

Keywords

Animation interfaces
Mesh modeling
Motion editing
Motion transfer
Shape editing
Skeletal animation

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Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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