Real Time Skin Deformation with Bones Blending

Skeletal animation with vertex blending is a popular method to model believable 3D characters. Its main advantage is its speed that allows real-time deformation even on low-level hardware. However it has some drawbacks as well: for some movements it produces non-natural postures like twisting elbows. We present a new method called bones blending that can be used as an alternative to vertex blending. Bones blending has a power to overcome the artifacts of vertex blending. Keywords Skeletal animation, digital skin, character modeling.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: WSCG
• Authors: Ladislav Kavan, Jiri Zara
• Keywords: Believable 3D Characters, Skeletal Animation, Vertex Blending, WSCG 2003