Analysis of design principles and requirements for procedural rigging of bipeds and quadrupeds characters with custom manipulators for animation

Character rigging is a process of endowing a character with a set of custom manipulators and controls making it easy to animate by an animators. These controls consists of simple joints, handles, or even separate character selection window. This research paper presents an automated rigging system fo...

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Main Authors:	Bhati, Zeeshan, Shah, Asadullah, Waqas, Ahmad, Mahmood, Nadeem
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	AIRCC Publishing Corporation 2015
Subjects:	T10.5 Communication of technical information
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/40998/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/40998/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/40998/1/zeeshan-paper2015.pdf

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spelling	iium-409982015-07-05T06:14:58Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/40998/ Analysis of design principles and requirements for procedural rigging of bipeds and quadrupeds characters with custom manipulators for animation Bhati, Zeeshan Shah, Asadullah Waqas, Ahmad Mahmood, Nadeem T10.5 Communication of technical information Character rigging is a process of endowing a character with a set of custom manipulators and controls making it easy to animate by an animators. These controls consists of simple joints, handles, or even separate character selection window. This research paper presents an automated rigging system for quadruped characters with custom controls and manipulators for animation. The full character rigging mechanism is procedurally driven based on various principles and requirements used by the riggers and animators. The automation is achieved initially by creating widgets according to the character type. These widgets then can be customized by the rigger according to the character shape, height and proportion. Then joint locations for each body parts are calculated and widgets are replaced programmatically. Finally a complete and fully operational procedurally generated character control rig is created and attached with the underlying skeletal joints. The functionality and feasibility of the rig was analyzed from various sources of actual character motion and a requirements criterion was met. The final rigged character provides an efficient and easy to manipulate control rig with no lagging and at high frame rate. AIRCC Publishing Corporation 2015-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40998/1/zeeshan-paper2015.pdf Bhati, Zeeshan and Shah, Asadullah and Waqas, Ahmad and Mahmood, Nadeem (2015) Analysis of design principles and requirements for procedural rigging of bipeds and quadrupeds characters with custom manipulators for animation. International Journal of Computer Graphics & Animation, 5 (1). pp. 47-67. ISSN 2231-3591 http://airccse.org/journal/ijcga/current2015.html
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description	Character rigging is a process of endowing a character with a set of custom manipulators and controls making it easy to animate by an animators. These controls consists of simple joints, handles, or even separate character selection window. This research paper presents an automated rigging system for quadruped characters with custom controls and manipulators for animation. The full character rigging mechanism is procedurally driven based on various principles and requirements used by the riggers and animators. The automation is achieved initially by creating widgets according to the character type. These widgets then can be customized by the rigger according to the character shape, height and proportion. Then joint locations for each body parts are calculated and widgets are replaced programmatically. Finally a complete and fully operational procedurally generated character control rig is created and attached with the underlying skeletal joints. The functionality and feasibility of the rig was analyzed from various sources of actual character motion and a requirements criterion was met. The final rigged character provides an efficient and easy to manipulate control rig with no lagging and at high frame rate.
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author	Bhati, Zeeshan Shah, Asadullah Waqas, Ahmad Mahmood, Nadeem
author_facet	Bhati, Zeeshan Shah, Asadullah Waqas, Ahmad Mahmood, Nadeem
author_sort	Bhati, Zeeshan
title	Analysis of design principles and requirements for procedural rigging of bipeds and quadrupeds characters with custom manipulators for animation
title_short	Analysis of design principles and requirements for procedural rigging of bipeds and quadrupeds characters with custom manipulators for animation
title_full	Analysis of design principles and requirements for procedural rigging of bipeds and quadrupeds characters with custom manipulators for animation
title_fullStr	Analysis of design principles and requirements for procedural rigging of bipeds and quadrupeds characters with custom manipulators for animation
title_full_unstemmed	Analysis of design principles and requirements for procedural rigging of bipeds and quadrupeds characters with custom manipulators for animation
title_sort	analysis of design principles and requirements for procedural rigging of bipeds and quadrupeds characters with custom manipulators for animation
publisher	AIRCC Publishing Corporation
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/40998/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/40998/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/40998/1/zeeshan-paper2015.pdf
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Analysis of design principles and requirements for procedural rigging of bipeds and quadrupeds characters with custom manipulators for animation

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