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New Trends in the Direction of Synthetic Actors

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This paper surveys the techniques involved in research related to synthetic actors. Research in this area may be arbitrarily split into two levels: 1) the geometric and physical level consisting of the animation and modeling of the human structure itself, and 2) the environment-dependent level consisting of the animation of the actor in his/her environment. These levels are not independent and research in a third level should allow the animator to specify the behaviour in terms of events, goals and constraints. This third level corresponds to task-level and behavioural animation.

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Magnenat-Thalmann, N. (1990). New Trends in the Direction of Synthetic Actors. In: Chua, TS., Kunii, T.L. (eds) CG International ’90. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68123-6_2

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