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Physically Based Character Animation Synthesis

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Understanding and synthesizing human motions are an important scientific quest. It also has broad applications in computer animation. Research on physically based character animation in the last two decades has achieved impressive advancement. A large variety of human activities are synthesized automatically in a physically simulated environment. The two key components of physically based character animation are (1) physical simulation that models the dynamics of humans and their environment and (2) controller optimization that optimizes the character’s motions in the simulation. This approach has an inherent realism because we all live in a world that obeys physical laws, and we evolved to survive in this physical environment. In this chapter, we will review the state of the art of physically based character animation, introduce a few established methods in physical simulation and motor control, and discuss promising future directions.

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Jie Tan

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  1. Motion & More, Barcelona, Spain

    Bertram Müller

  2. Klinik für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgi, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastian I. Wolf

  3. Institut for Biomechanics und Orthopedic, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Gert-Peter Brueggemann

  4. Houston, Texas, USA

    Zhigang Deng

  5. ACRISP, FedUniversity, Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia

    Andrew McIntosh

  6. Wilmington, Delaware, USA

    Freeman Miller

  7. Research, C-Motion, Inc., Germantown, Maryland, USA

    William Scott Selbie

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Tan, J. (2016). Physically Based Character Animation Synthesis. In: Müller, B., et al. Handbook of Human Motion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30808-1_11-1

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