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"Do Like Me", "Do Like This": Creating Animations by Teaching a Virtual Human
Lyon, France June 13-June 15
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SMI.2007.1IEEE International Conference on Shap ...
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Marc Salvati, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Jeong Seung Zoo, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Naoki Hashimoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Makoto Sato, Tokyo Institute of Technology

In this paper, we propose a new animation creation process, based on the teacher-student concept. You are the teacher and want to teach someone a performance. First you show the student how to perform an action, you tell him "do like me". Then you correct his posture by moving with hands his arms, his torso, feet position and so forth by saying to him "do like this".

To show the virtual human a motion, the user use motion capture. He may check easily the result in a human scale immersive environment. Then he finds the part of the motion he wants to correct. He edits the motion with his hands like in the real world using a two-handed haptic device. Thus the user can perform motion editing in an intuitive and natural way, and achieve both actor performance and animator task in a unified environment.

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Marc Salvati, Jeong Seung Zoo, Naoki Hashimoto, Makoto Sato, ""Do Like Me", "Do Like This": Creating Animations by Teaching a Virtual Human," smi, pp.43-50, IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2007 (SMI '07), 2007
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