After Class Reading:

How to Animate 3D Characters in 1 Minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjJLIuFKA20

Human Body Rig in Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAM7mF2v7dE

Behind the Scenes God of War PS5 | Mocap Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVXoOK4R8M0

Kinematics Animation

IK

• 2017: http://www.andreasaristidou.com/publications/papers/IK_survey.pdf
• [Andreas Aristidou and Joan Lasenby. 2011 FABRIK: A fast, iterative solver for the Inverse Kinematics problem]
• [Ken Shoemake. 1985 Animating rotation with quaternion curves. SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics]

Skinning

• https://skinning.org/ Alec Jacobson, Zhigang Deng, Ladislav Kavan , and J. P. Lewis. Skinning: real time shape deformation. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Courses (SIGGRAPH '14)
• [SMPL: A Skinned Multi Person Linear Model]
• [NeuroSkinning: Automatic Skin Binding for Production Characters with Deep Graph Networks Sig2019]
• [Learning Skeletal Articulations with Neural Blend Shapes Sig2021]
• https://rodolphe-vaillant.fr/entry/29/dual-quaternions-skinning-tutorial-and-c-codes
• https://ww2.mathworks.cn/help/matlab/ref/griddata.html
• J. P. Lewis, Matt Cordner , and Nickson Fong. 2000. Pose space deformation: a unified approach to shape interpolation and skeleton driven deformation . In Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH ’00), ACM Press/Addison Wesley Publishing Co., USA, 165 172.
• Dragomir Anguelov , Praveen Srinivasan, Daphne Koller, Sebastian Thrun , Jim Rodgers, and James Davis. 2005 . SCAPE: shape completion and animation of people . ACM Trans. Graph. 24 , 3 (July 2005 ), 408 416
• Egger et al. 2020. 3D Morphable Face Models Past, Present, and Future. ACM Trans. Graph. 39, 5 (June 2020), 157:1 157:38.

Motion Retargeting

• [Aberman et al. 2020 SIGGRAPH]
• [OpenPose, 2D Pose]
• [3D Video based Pose estimation, source: DeepMotion Inc.]
• [Holden 2018 Robust Solving of Optical Motion Capture Data by Denoising]
• https://captury.com/
• https://www.theiamarkerless.ca/
• [Yi et al. 2021. TransPose : Real time 3D Human Translation and Pose Estimation with Six Inertial Sensors]
• [Villegas et al. 2021, Contact Aware Retargeting of Skinned Motion]
• nucl.ai Conference: Ubisoft Toronto "IK Rig" Prototype https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4TQSeUpH3Q

Motion Graphs

• [Lucas Kovar Frédéric Pighin . 2002. Motion graphs.]
• [Heck and Gleicher 2007, Parametric Motion Graphs]
• Motion Planning with Motion Graph and A* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekx0bXz25Pw

Motion Matching

• [Motion Field for Interactive Character Locomotion Sig2010]
• https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023280/Motion%20Matching%20and%20The%20Road

Motion Blending

• inertialized blending: https://wwww.theorangeduck.com/page/spring-roll-call by Daniel Holden

Learning based Approaches, Autoregressive Models traditional Gaussian Distribution:

• Synthesizing Physically Realistic Human Motion in Low-Dimensional Behavior-Specific Spaces, Sig2004
• Interactive Generation of Human Aniamtion with Deformable Motion Models, Sig2009
• Continuous Character Control with Low-Dimensional Embeddings Sig2012

Neural Networks:

• [Starke et al 2020, Local Motion Phases for Learning Multi Contact Character Movements]
• Pirker and Katzenschlager 2017. Gait disorders in adults and the elderly.

Motion Generative Models

• [Ling et al. 2021 Character Controllers Using Motion VAEs]
• [Henter et al. 2020, MoGlow : Probabilistic and Controllable Motion Synthesis Using Normalising Flows]
• [Zhang et al. 2022, arXiv , MotionDiffuse : Text Driven Human Motion Generation with Diffusion Model]
• [Tevet et al. 2022, arXiv , MDM: Human Motion Diffusion Model]

Cross Modal Motion Synthesis

• [Ao et al. 2022. Rhythmic Gesticulator. SIGGRAPH Asia 2022]
• [Tevet et al. 2022. MotionCLIP]

Motion Reconstruction with Sparse Sensors

• [DeepMotion: Virtual Reality Tracking]
• [Ye et al. 2022:]
• [Yang et al. 2022: Learning to Use Chopsticks]

Physics Character Animation

RigidBody

• https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~baraff/sigcourse/
• David Baraff . SIGGRAPH ’94 Fast contact force computation for nonpenetrating rigid bodies.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFKGWfdG3bU
• https://www.theorangeduck.com/page/spring-roll-call by Daniel Holden

Spacetime/Trajectory Optimization

• [Hodgins and Wooten 1995, Animating Human Athletics]
• [ControlVAE Yao et al. 2022]
• [Liu et al 2010. SAMCON]
• [Wampler and Popović . 2009. Optimal gait and form for animal locomotion]
• [AlBorno et al. 2013 Trajectory Optimization for Full Body Movements with Complex Contacts]
• [Hamalainen et al. 2020, Visualizing Movement Control Optimization Landscapes]
• [Zordan et al. 2005 Dynamic response for motion capture animation]
• [Stable Proportional-Derivative Controllers]
• [Macchietto et al. 2009 Momentum Control for Balance]

Abstract Models

• [Yin et al. 2007, SIMBICON: Simple Biped Locomotion Control]
• [Coros et al. 2010 Generalized Biped Walking Control Inverted Pendulum Model]
• [Biped Walking Pattern Generation by using Preview Control of Zero-Moment Point]
• [Muico et al 2011 Composite Control of Physically Simulated Characters]
• [Liu et al. 2012 Terrain Runner]

DRL based Tracking Controllers

• [Liu et al. 2016. ControlGraphs]
• [Liu et al. 2018]
• [Peng et al. 2018.DeepMimic]
• [Mnih et al. 2015, Human level control through deep reinforcement learning]

Multi skill Characters

• [Liu et al. 2017: Learning to Schedule Control Fragments ]

Most of the basic C++ code can be found in Unreal Engine, you can find the summaries here: keneyr.com/Animation/