Determination of force fields for ode-based and skeleton driven character animation

Authors: You, L.H., Yang, X.S., Jin, X., Chaudhry, E. and Zhang, J.J.

Journal: GRAPP 2013 IVAPP 2013 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications

Pages: 115-118

ISBN: 9789898565464

Abstract:

In the existing work, character modelling and animation are two separate tasks. After a character model is built, a lot of time and efforts are still required to animate the character model. Ordinary differential equation-based surface modelling and animation using physically based deformable curves to define and deform skin surfaces of 3D character models. With such a technique, character modelling and animation can be integrated into a unified framework by introducing time-dependent varying force fields into ordinary differential equations. This paper addresses the issue of determination of the force fields and proposes three models, i. e. linear transformation model, interpolation model and extrapolation model, to obtain time-dependent varying force fields. Some application examples are presented which demonstrates the force fields obtained from the three models create believable skin deformations of character models.

Source: Scopus

Preferred by: Jian Jun Zhang, Lihua You and Xiaosong Yang