Character animation from 2D pictures and 3D motion data

• Published in: ACM transactions on graphics Vol. 26; no. 1; p. 1
• Main Authors: Hornung, Alexander, Dekkers, Ellen, Kobbelt, Leif
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Association for Computing Machinery 01.01.2007
• Subjects: Computer animation; Movement; Three dimensional imaging

This article presents a new method to animate photos of 2D characters using 3D motion capture data. Given a single image of a person or essentially human-like subject, our method transfers the motion of a 3D skeleton onto the subject's 2D shape in image space, generating the impression of a rea...