Environment-aware Motion Matching
Jose Luis Ponton, Sheldon Andrews, Carlos Andujar, Nuria Pelechano

TL;DR
This paper introduces Environment-aware Motion Matching, a real-time system that enables full-body characters to adapt dynamically to environments and crowds, improving naturalism and consistency in animation.
Contribution
It presents a novel approach that integrates environment awareness into motion matching, allowing natural full-body animation in complex, dynamic scenes.
Findings
Effective collision-aware motion matching in real-time
Natural adaptation of pose and trajectory in crowded scenes
Improved realism over traditional methods
Abstract
Interactive applications demand believable characters that respond naturally to dynamic environments. Traditional character animation techniques often struggle to handle arbitrary situations, leading to a growing trend of dynamically selecting motion-captured animations based on predefined features. While Motion Matching has proven effective for locomotion by aligning to target trajectories, animating environment interactions and crowd behaviors remains challenging due to the need to consider surrounding elements. Existing approaches often involve manual setup or lack the naturalism of motion capture. Furthermore, in crowd animation, body animation is frequently treated as a separate process from trajectory planning, leading to inconsistencies between body pose and root motion. To address these limitations, we present Environment-aware Motion Matching, a novel real-time system for…
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