Real-time motion retargeting to highly varied user-created morphologies

SIGGRAPH'08: International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 Papers 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hecker, Chris ^a   Raabe, Bernd ^a   Enslow, Ryan W ^a   Deweese, John ^a   Maynard, Jordan ^b   Van Prooijem, Kees ^a  

^a Maxis/Electronic Arts ^*

^b Trion World Network

Author keywords

Character animation; Games; Inverse kinematics; Motion retargeting; Procedural animation; User generated content

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GAME THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; KINEMATICS; MECHANICS; MORPHOLOGY;

CHARACTER ANIMATION; GAMES; MOTION RETARGETING; PROCEDURAL ANIMATION; USER GENERATED CONTENT;

ANIMATION;

EID: 57649105636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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