From A-Pose to AR-Pose: Animating Characters in Mobile AR

What is it about?

We present AR-Pose, a mobile AR app to generate keyframe-based animations of rigged humanoid characters. The smartphone’s positional and rotational degrees of freedom are used for two purposes:(i) as a 3D cursor to interact with inverse kinematic (IK) controllers placed on or near the character’s joints; and (ii) as a virtual camera that enables users to freely move around the character. Through the touch screen, users can activate/deactivate actions such as selecting an IK controller or pressing animation control buttons placed in a hovering 3D panel. By systematically re-positioning and saving the positions of the IK controllers, different poses can be achieved and, therefore, used to generate a 3D animation.

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Photo by UNIBOA on Unsplash

Photo by UNIBOA on Unsplash

Why is it important?

AR-Pose is a novel concept for animating characters using Augmented Reality.