Character Animation from 2D Pictures & 3D Motion Data

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 realistic movement.

It presents robust solutions to reconstruct a projective camera model & a 3D model pose which matches best to the given 2D image. Depending on the reconstructed view, a 2D shape template is selected which enables the proper handling of occlusions.

After fitting the template to the character in the input image, it is deformed as-rigid-as-possible by taking the projected 3D motion data into account.

Unlike previous work this method thereby correctly handles projective shape distortion. It works for images from arbitrary views and requires only a small amount of user interaction.

It presents animations of a diverse set of human (and non-human) characters with different types of motions such as walking, jumping, or dancing.

http://www.rwth-graphics.de/publications

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• alexander
• hornung
• ellen
• dekkers
• leif
• kobbelt
• 2d
• 3d
• graphics
• art
• animation

[camelloops]

creepy...

[LowenStrosst]

pretty scary

[LeftGodz]

what the fu.......

[Facu4815]

0:10 he got a boner

[pianOracle]

Thumbs Up if you're never touching a statue again after watching this.

[emilykatelake]

how do i get this software??

[Thebeachbeachygal]

Haha!!! Cleveerrr!!

[IanLeoTV]

How do they get the background?????

[Wondercat707]

that's just scary.

[iancorporated]

Wow!