A software pipeline for 3D animation generation using mocap data and commercial shape models

  • Authors:
  • Xin Zhang;David S. Biswas;Guoliang Fan

  • Affiliations:
  • Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, United States;Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, United States;Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, United States

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We propose a software pipeline to generate 3D animations by using the motion capture (mocap) data and human shape models. The proposed pipeline integrates two animation software tools, Maya and MotionBuilder in one flow. Specifically, we address the issue of skeleton incompatibility among the mocap data, shape models, and animation software. Our objective is to generate both realistic and accurate motion-specific animation sequences. Our method is tested by three mocap data sets of various motion types and five commercial human shape models, and it demonstrates better visual realisticness and kinematic accuracy when compared with three other animation generation methods.