A Balanced Approach To Character Motion

The project presented in this paper explores the possibility of designing and implementing a physics-based real-time animation engine capable of generating realistically looking motion for articulated human characters with at least 16 degrees of freedom, based on the FreeWill+ framework and its skeleton model. Some new animation controllers are developed to map the real physical quantities into the FreeWill+ model of the world and to simulate the dynamics aspects of the human motion. At the current stage of research the solution allows estimating physically valid balance of a virtual character. In case of loosing its balance the character may initiate some reflexive behaviour.