3 papers
cs.GR2025
Environment-aware Motion Matching
Jose Luis Ponton, Sheldon Andrews, Carlos Andujar +1
Interactive applications demand believable characters that respond naturally to dynamic environments. Traditional character animation techniques often struggle to handle arbitrary…
cs.GR2024
Actuators À La Mode: Modal Actuations for Soft Body Locomotion
Otman Benchekroun, Kaixiang Xie, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu +3
Traditional character animation specializes in characters with a rigidly articulated skeleton and a bipedal/quadripedal morphology. This assumption simplifies many aspects for desi…
cs.GR2024
Elastic Locomotion with Mixed Second-order Differentiation
Siyuan Shen, Tianjia Shao, Kun Zhou +4
We present a framework of elastic locomotion, which allows users to enliven an elastic body to produce interesting locomotion by prescribing its high-level kinematics. We formulate…