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Zhan, Xiao, Fu, Rao, Ritchie, Daniel |
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Computer Graphics Forum; May2024, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p1-10, 10p |
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We present CharacterMixer, a system for blending two rigged 3D characters with different mesh and skeleton topologies while maintaining a rig throughout interpolation. CharacterMixer also enables interpolation during motion for such characters, a novel feature. Interpolation is an important shape editing operation, but prior methods have limitations when applied to rigged characters: they either ignore the rig (making interpolated characters no longer posable) or use a fixed rig and mesh topology. To handle different mesh topologies, CharacterMixer uses a signed distance field (SDF) representation of character shapes, with one SDF per bone. To handle different skeleton topologies, it computes a hierarchical correspondence between source and target character skeletons and interpolates the SDFs of corresponding bones. This correspondence also allows the creation of a single "unified skeleton" for posing and animating interpolated characters. We show that CharacterMixer produces qualitatively better interpolation results than two state‐of‐the‐art methods while preserving a rig throughout interpolation. Project page: https://seanxzhan.github.io/projects/CharacterMixer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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