Our most recent SmartBody research in automated retargetting has won the award for Best Paper at the Fifth International Conference on Motion in Games in Rennes, France.
Automated retargeting of several off-the-shelf rigged models.
The paper details how to automatically use models and skeletons in an animation system without the need to manually process them ahead of time. You can download a model from an online source, and use it immediately to move, interact with its virtual world, and perform any behaviors that SmartBody is capable of producing.
“Automating the Transfer of a Generic Set of Behaviors Onto a Virtual Character”
http://www.arishapiro.com/mig12/mig12system.pdf
A video of the results can be seen here:
http://www.arishapiro.com/mig12/RetargetSystem_Final.mp4
Regards,
Ari Shapiro
