Character Modelling with Sketches and ODE-Based Shape Creation

Character Modelling with Sketches and ODE-Based Shape Creation

Year:    2023

Author:    Haibin Fu, Ouwen Li, Shaojun Bian, Haibin Fu, Xiaosong Yang, Shaojun Bian, Xiaogang Jin, Xiaosong Yang, Andres Iglesias, Xiaogang Jin, Algirdas Noreika, Andres Iglesias, Lihua You, Algirdas Noreika, Jian Jun Zhang, Lihua You, Jian Jun Zhang

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 16 (2023), Iss. 3 : pp. 720–751

Abstract

Character models have enormous applications in industry. Efficient creation of detailed character models is an important topic. This paper proposes a new and easy-to-use technique to quickly create detailed character models from sketches. The proposed technique consists of two main components: primitive deformer and shape generators. With this technique, 2D silhouette contours of a character model are drawn or extracted from an image or sketch. Then, proper geometric primitives are selected and aligned with the corresponding 2D silhouette contours. After that, a primitive deformer is used to create a base mesh and three shape generators are used to add 3D details to the base mesh. The primitive deformer and three shape generators are developed from ODE-driven deformations. The primitive deformer deforms the aligned geometric primitives to exactly match the 2D silhouette contours in one view plane and obtains a base mesh of a character model consisting of deformed primitives. The shape generators are used to add 3D details to the base mesh by creating local 3D models. The experimental results demonstrate that the new technique can quickly create detailed 3D character models from sketches with few manual operations. The new technique is physics-based and easy to learn and use.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2022-0172

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 16 (2023), Iss. 3 : pp. 720–751

Published online:    2023-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    32

Keywords:    Sketch-based character modelling shape generators ordinary differential equations finite difference solution.

Author Details

Haibin Fu

Ouwen Li

Shaojun Bian

Haibin Fu

Xiaosong Yang

Shaojun Bian

Xiaogang Jin

Xiaosong Yang

Andres Iglesias

Xiaogang Jin

Algirdas Noreika

Andres Iglesias

Lihua You

Algirdas Noreika

Jian Jun Zhang

Lihua You

Jian Jun Zhang