Computer Graphics Animation for Objective Self-Evaluation

Abstract

The increased number of students enrolling in dance classes in Japan has resulted in a shortage of qualified instructors, leaving classes to be taught by instructors who are not trained in dance. The authors developed a system specifically designed to help nonqualified dance instructors teach dance using motion capture and animation. The goal is to allow dancers to easily self-evaluate their own performances by comparing it to a standard example.

Immersive Virtual Reality-Based Interfaces for Character Animation

“…Today, a growing number of fields, including movie and video game production, architecture, industrial design, product advertising, and training, to name a few, make a massive use of computer-generated 3D animation [1], [2]. Despite recent huge technological improvements in the field, the creation of animations still requires a significant amount of diverse skills and is a very time consuming task, even for professional animators [3], [4].…”

“…Most commercial products and research prototypes, however, target mostly non-professional users. On the one hand, although these latter solutions are generally intuitive and easy to use, they lack many of the advanced functionalities offered by common animation tools like Autodesk Maya, 2 Blender, 3 etc. On the other hand, tools targeted to professional users often miss support for a seamless integration with common animation suites [3], [4], [8].…”