Key Poses Simulation for the Robot Animation

Abstract

Designing a pose of a character is important because a pose expresses an emotion and a personality. It is particularly important in robot animation. In this paper, we propose a simulation system for designing poses of robot characters. We collected 678 examples of robot characters from product packages and classified them into 10 typical types by camera position and direction of arms and legs. The user can simulate a pose by simply choosing from collected poses.