A new interface paradigm for motion capture based animation(10)

Abstract. This paper proposes a new user interface paradigm for motion capture based animation systems, providing intuitive and efficient ways to visualize the main motion capture concepts and operations. A prototype system was built, implementing the prop

Figure9:Visualrepresentationofajoint

curve.

Figure10:JointCurvesWindow.

TheMotionWindow

Finally,wedecidedtocreateaninterfaceobjectthatactsasaconnectionbe-tweenmotionandactordescriptions.TheMotionWindow(Figure11)isac-cessedviaadouble-clickinamotionbar,andallowstheselection(orgrouping)ofspeci cjointsoftheactor.

TheMotionWindowiscomposedofseveralbars,eachonerepresentinganactorjoint(detailinFigure11).Visually,itlookslikeazoominthemotionbar.Thisrepresentationisintentional,sincethemotionisformedbythecurvesthatareattachedtoactor’sjoints.

TheMotionWindowwillproofitsutilitywhenusedinconjunctionwithmotionoperations,allowingtheapplicationofanoperationtoaspeci csetofjointsoftheactor.