Principles of Character Animation

by Adriana Schulz,
graduate course at IMPA instructed by Luiz Velho - Mar/Jul 2010

Overview

The objective of the course is to study the principles of character animation and discuss the state of the art in the area with emphasis in techniques involving Motion Capture. The references used include recent articles and SIGGRAPH tutorials.

In this web site we have made available some documents that were produced during the course.


State of the Art in Character Animation

Motion Capture

Rotations and Interpolations

Hierachical Kinematic Modeling

A parallel with 3D Graphics