Character Animation using Finger Recognition

- Virtual Hand Puppet “ Tomte ”

Abstract

Tomte is a body sensory style VR application, which captures the player's hand motion as an input, to control the virtual character, in the theme of “ Puppet Play ”. Tomte can be played in real-time, controlling the virtual charactor in many ways. The system renders the character animation which is controlled by the player's hand motion captured with the USB camera. This application realized a novel method for character animation that enables to play it intuitively, and also no need to wear any device. Tomte proved the possibility of controlling the computer without a device, and also application of the gesture recognition.