Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 1(1), Article 13. (ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on
Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2018).
Authors: Tomohiko Mukai
Abstract: While 3D animation packages provide a wide variety of animation rigs for creating expressive skin animation, most interactive systems employ linear blend skinning for hard realtime computation. We propose a method for converting an arbitrary skeleton-driven deformer into a linear blend skinning-based helper bone rig. Our system builds the target rig by applying an example-based skinning technique that uses a minimal training dataset obtained from the source model by two-pass sampling of the skin deformation. The first uniform sampling analyzes the relationship between the rotation of each joint and the deformation of skin vertices. The second sampling composes a minimum training dataset by selecting important pose samples using novel geometrical measures. We also propose a skinning decomposition with similarity transformation algorithm for accurately approximating the non-rigid skin deformation behavior by helper bone transformations. Our experimental results demonstrate the proposed automated rig conversion into non-rigid helper bones from several skeleton-driven deformers, including Delta Mush deformers, corrective blendshapes, and virtual-muscle systems.
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15K16110, 15H02704. We would like to thank PlatinumGames Inc. for providing useful suggestions and the arm assets.
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