Two-Stage Motion Editing Interface for Character Animation

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a user interface that enables users to intuitively retrieve relevant motions from a database and edit them by drawing motion trajectories on the screen. This system consists of two-stage operations to provide global-level and local-level motion editing: a global stage that enables users to design the body movement in virtual space roughly, and a local stage that enables users to design detailed movements such as limbs movement. We verified the proposed system with character animation editing with both global and local stages.