Template based procedural rigging of quadrupeds with custom manipulators

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

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Main Authors: Bhatti, Zeeshan, Shah, Asadullah, Waqas, Ahmad, Malik, Hafiz Abid Mahmood
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Language:English
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Published: 2013
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author Bhatti, Zeeshan
Shah, Asadullah
Waqas, Ahmad
Malik, Hafiz Abid Mahmood
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Waqas, Ahmad
Malik, Hafiz Abid Mahmood
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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 the animators. These controls consists of simple joints, handles, or even separate characters selection windows. This research paper present an automated rigging system for quadruped characters with customs control 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 widget 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 procedural generated character control rig is created and attached with the underlying skeleton joints. The functionality and feasibility of the rig was analyzed from various sources and 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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spelling iium-370322021-01-18T04:51:18Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37032/ Template based procedural rigging of quadrupeds with custom manipulators Bhatti, Zeeshan Shah, Asadullah Waqas, Ahmad Malik, Hafiz Abid Mahmood 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 the animators. These controls consists of simple joints, handles, or even separate characters selection windows. This research paper present an automated rigging system for quadruped characters with customs control 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 widget 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 procedural generated character control rig is created and attached with the underlying skeleton joints. The functionality and feasibility of the rig was analyzed from various sources and 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. 2013 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37032/1/template-based-proc-modeling2014.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37032/4/37032_Character%20Rigging_scopus.pdf Bhatti, Zeeshan and Shah, Asadullah and Waqas, Ahmad and Malik, Hafiz Abid Mahmood (2013) Template based procedural rigging of quadrupeds with custom manipulators. In: 2103 International Conference of Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies (ACSAT), 23-24 Dec. 2013, Kuching, Sarawak. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6836587&tag=1
spellingShingle T10.5 Communication of technical information
Bhatti, Zeeshan
Shah, Asadullah
Waqas, Ahmad
Malik, Hafiz Abid Mahmood
Template based procedural rigging of quadrupeds with custom manipulators
title Template based procedural rigging of quadrupeds with custom manipulators
title_full Template based procedural rigging of quadrupeds with custom manipulators
title_fullStr Template based procedural rigging of quadrupeds with custom manipulators
title_full_unstemmed Template based procedural rigging of quadrupeds with custom manipulators
title_short Template based procedural rigging of quadrupeds with custom manipulators
title_sort template based procedural rigging of quadrupeds with custom manipulators
topic T10.5 Communication of technical information
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/37032/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37032/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37032/1/template-based-proc-modeling2014.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37032/4/37032_Character%20Rigging_scopus.pdf