Animation

Our system allows the user to act several loops of motion using a variety of capture devices and automatically extracts a looping cycle from this potentially noisy input.

We propose the concept of blendmaterials to give artists an intuitive means to account for changing material properties due to muscle activation.

In this paper, we present an algorithm that generates natural, dynamic, and detailed skin deformation (movement and jiggle) from joint angle data sequences.

We present a graphical authoring tool for creating complex narratives in large, populated areas with crowds of virtual humans.

We present an accessible graphical platform for content creators and end users to create a story world, populate it with smart characters and objects, and define narrative events that can be used to author digital stories.

Our work on programmable animation texturing enhances the concept of texture mapping by letting artists stylize arbitrary animations using elementary animations, instantiated at the scale of their choice.

Effective composition in visual arts relies on the principle of movement, where the viewer’s eye is directed along subjective curves to a center of interest.

In this paper, we present an algorithm that generates natural, dynamic, and detailed skin deformation (movement and jiggle) from joint angle data sequences.

In this paper, we consider the problem of creating rich and varied conversational behaviors for data-driven animation of walking and jogging characters.

We present CANVAS, a computer-assisted visual authoring tool for synthesizing multi-character animations from sparsely-specified narrative events.