Animation Post-Processing

Animation Post-processing

post-processing: extras procedure to modify the pose prior to rendering the character

Procedural Animations

Procedural Animations: animation generated at runtime rather than being driven by exported data from Maya.

• usually used in post-processing to generate desired effects, like bush swaying in wind

Inverse Kinematics(IK)

• Forward Kinematics: a regular animation clip that drives the joints
  • input: local joint poses
  • output: global pose, skinning matrix for each joint
• IK
  • input: desired global pose of a single joint, known as end effector
  • output: local poses of joints that will bring the end effector to the desired location
• IK tries to solve an error minimization problem
  • works best when the end effector is close enough to the original target
  • example: two-dimensional config space [${\theta }_1$,${\theta }_1$]
    

Rag Dolls

body out of control, acts in a totally physical way, just like a rag doll

• a rag doll is a collection of physical simulated rigid bodies, each constrained to one another at the joint.