Puppet playing: an interactive character animation system with hand motion control
Transactions on computational science XII
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Humanoid animation is one of the most common but complicated types of animation. Although more sophisticated animation packages have been developed in recent years, there is no extensible platform allow- ing researchers to test developed procedures for ex- perimental purposes. In this paper, we present an ex- perimental platform called IMHAP (Intelligent Media Lab's Humanoid Animation Platform) especially for humanoid animation generated with procedural ap- proaches. IMHAP is constructed with a model-view- control (MVC) methodology and features flexibility and extensibility. In addition to present the architec- ture of the system, we also use a few lower-body mo- tions generated with a procedural approach to demon- strate the use of the system as an experimental testbed for humanoid animation. Keywords: experimental animation platform, proce- dural animation, computer animation