Mix and match animated 3D models

What is it about?

Creating animated 3D models using parts of high quality existing 3D assets. The approach is quite intuitive, automated and simple to be used allowing to create, by composition, in a few minutes 3D characters that would have required at least 4 hours of work of a highly skilled professional artist.

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Why is it important?

The reuse of existing high quality 3D assets is an important tool for creating at competitive costs new animated characters for the entertainment industry. With the proposed approach an user can for example create an animated centaur with just a few clicks on the skeletons of a horse and a human. Starting form this very simple input our approach create a high quality 3D model with a correct skeleton, proper skinning weights, and a set of animations generated by completing the ones of the input models.