Journal of Information Technology & Software Engineering
Open Access

Aesthetics of artist created vs. evolutionary-generated character animations

Global Summit and Expo on Multimedia & Applications

August 10-11, 2015 Birmingham, UK

Benjamin Ken Wright

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Inform Tech Soft Engg

Abstract :

While the field of procedural content generation is growing, there has been some-what less work on developing procedural
methods to animate these models. We present a physically-based technique for generating procedural animations for
creating adaptive biped motions using evolutionary algorithms and Fourier series. Training fitness functions to create motions
that meet artistic demands (style) that are able to automatically adapt to changing situations (e.g., character physical attributes,
such as mass and size, and changing terrain). We evaluate our animations using a variety of situations to demonstrate the future
real-world viability of our technique.