Music-driven character animation

Authors:
Danielle Sauer;Yee-Hong Yang
Affiliations:
University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada;University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada
Venue:
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Music-driven character animation extracts musical features from a song and uses them to create an animation. This article presents a system that builds a new animation directly from musical attributes, rather than simply synchronizing it to the music like similar systems. Using a simple script that identifies the movements involved in the performance and their timing, the user can easily control the animation of characters. Another unique feature of the system is its ability to incorporate multiple characters into the same animation, both with synchronized and unsynchronized movements. A system that integrates Celtic dance movements is developed in this article. An evaluation of the results shows that the majority of animations are found to be appealing to viewers and that altering the music can change the attractiveness of the final result.