A Framework for View-Dependent Character Animation
Ph.D. Thesis
Supervisors: Prem Kalra, Subhashis Banerjee
External examiners: Karan Singh, Sharat Chandran
Abstract |
| This thesis presents a framework for intuitive and efficient creation of moving camera character animations. In particular, it presents a unified theoretical framework for view-dependent character animation, where the characters action depends on the view. The framework can represent and use all variations possible in defining cameras. It can extract camera and character pose information from multi-modal inputs like sketches and videos, in order to create a view space. It then allows a quick exploration of the various animations which can be generated from this space. It can be easily extended to include other forms of input such as motion capture. The dissertation also explores how it is possible to reuse the view-dependent variations to animate multiple characters. |
Animation Videos |
| All the animations are encoded using the standard DivX codec (available from http://www.divx.com). The clips can be played using mplayer on Linux or Windows Media Player on Windows or any other player which understands the DivX format. |
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View-Dependent Animation (An introduction) | |
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Hugo's High Jump | |
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Hugo's High Jump (with distance variation) | |
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Hugo's Antics | |
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Olaf Reloaded | |
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Ballet of the Hand | |
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View-Dependent Animation from Video | |
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View-Dependent Animation from Multi-Modal Inputs | |
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Through the Looking Glass (an example of stylistic reuse) | |
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| Page last updated on 28 July, 2006. |
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