Animation

The GTI has always been involved in projects involving character animations. SAUCE, PRESENT, SIGNON are some of them. The development of our work in the field ended up in the development of two applications explained below, and a new course called Computer Animation taught in engineering degrees here in the UPF.

Animics (Application)

Animics is a web application with multiple functionalities but one goal: to generate and edit virtual characters animations easily.

Some of its functionalities are:

- Conversion from video to animation using Computer Vision solutions.

- Edition of keyframe animations.

- Edition of behaviour-based animations. Using our own system based on BML (Behaviour Markup Language) and extended to support sign language behaviours in SiGML.

- Support of GLB/BVH animations.

Animcis is also connected to our following application, Performs. It allows the user to display the animation created in a custmizable scene.

You can also visit the GitHub repositoty!

Performs (Application)

Performs is designed to visualize and synthesize humanoid animations for customized avatars. It supports two types of animations: keyframe animations (glTF, BVH) and script animations (SiGML, BML). The second mode integrates a variety of BML (Behavior Markup Language) instructions for Manual Features (MF) and Non-Manual Features (NMF) to create cohesive animations, performed in real-time.

You can also visit the GitHub repositoty!

Ray Tracing

Work in progress.