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13 - Skeleton animation retarget from motion capture data (BVH)

This tutorials shows how to retarget skeletal animation (skeleton).

This feature is very interesting to use animation from motion capture. In fact, in most cases, the motion skeleton and the model skeleton will be significantly different (joint naming, bone hierarchy, ...) which make them incompatible.
The skeleton retarget process convert the motion in a compatible animation for the model.

The skeleton retargeter need as input the model and the motion to retarget, and in addition the mapping between the model and motion joint names.

Preview
CMU motion skeleton

Mia model skeleton

Mia model skeleton (zoom)


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