Character Animation

Contact Edit: Artist Tools for Intuitive Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions

Arjun Sriram Lakshmipathy, Nicole Feng, Yu Xi Lee, Moshe Mahler, Nancy S. Pollard

Journal SIGGRAPH 2023 Animation & Simulation

Hand-Object Interaction Contact Modeling Inverse Kinematics Geodesic Parameterization Character Animation

Example-based Motion Synthesis via Generative Motion Matching

Weiyu Li, Xuelin Chen, Peizhuo Li, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Baoquan Chen

Journal SIGGRAPH 2023 Animation & Simulation

Motion Synthesis Motion Matching Generative Model Character Animation Patch-Based Synthesis

Generating Activity Snippets by Learning Human-Scene Interactions

Changyang Li, Lap-Fai Yu

Journal SIGGRAPH 2023 Animation & Simulation

Graph Generation Behavior Synthesis Character Animation Human-Scene Interaction Mixed Reality

Learning Physically Simulated Tennis Skills from Broadcast Videos

Haotian Zhang, Ye Yuan, Viktor Makoviychuk, Yunrong Guo, Sanja Fidler, Xue Bin Peng, Kayvon Fatahalian

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH 2023 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Animation Reinforcement Learning Character Animation Motion Capture Video-Based Learning

QuestEnvSim: Environment-Aware Simulated Motion Tracking from Sparse Sensors

Sunmin Lee, Sebastian Starke, Yuting Ye, Jungdam Won, Alexander W. Winkler

Conference SIGGRAPH 2023 Animation & Simulation

Motion Tracking Reinforcement Learning Physics Simulation Character Animation VR

RSMT: Real-time Stylized Motion Transition for Characters

Xiangjun Tang, Linjun Wu, He Wang, Bo Hu, Xu Gong, Yuchen Liao, Songnan Li, Qilong Kou, Xiaogang Jin

Conference SIGGRAPH 2023 Animation & Simulation

Motion Transition Motion Manifold Motion Style Transfer Character Animation Real-Time Rendering

Simulation and Retargeting of Complex Multi-Character Interactions

Yunbo Zhang, Deepak Gopinath, Yuting Ye, Jessica K. Hodgins, Greg Turk, Jungdam Won

Conference SIGGRAPH 2023 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Physics-Based Simulation Reinforcement Learning Motion Retargeting Multi-Character Interaction

Synthesizing Physical Character-Scene Interactions

Mohamed Hassan, Yunrong Guo, Tingwu Wang, Michael J. Black, Sanja Fidler, Xue Bin Peng

Conference SIGGRAPH 2023 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Reinforcement Learning Adversarial Imitation Learning Physics-Based Simulation Human-Scene Interaction

A Neural Network Model for Efficient Musculoskeletal-Driven Skin Deformation

Yushan Han, Yizhou Chen, Carmichael F. Ong, Jingyu Chen, Jennifer L. Hicks, Joseph Teran

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Neural Network Skin Deformation Musculoskeletal Simulation Linear Blend Skinning Soft Tissue Simulation Character Animation Muscle Activation Quasistatic Simulation

Categorical Codebook Matching for Embodied Character Controllers

Sebastian Starke, Paul Starke, Nicky He, Taku Komura, Yuting Ye

Journal SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Motion Synthesis Vector Quantization Codebook Matching Three-Point Tracking Virtual Reality Avatar Embodiment Gumbel-Softmax Motion Matching Autoregressive Control

Dragon's Path: Synthesizing User-Centered Flying Creature Animation Paths for Outdoor Augmented Reality Experiences

Minyoung Kim, Rawan Alghofaili, Changyang Li, Lap-Fai Yu

Conference SIGGRAPH 2024 HCI & XR

Augmented Reality Character Animation Path Synthesis Scene Understanding Few-Shot Learning

Flexible Motion In-betweening with Diffusion Models

Setareh Cohan, Guy Tevet, Daniele Reda, Xue Bin Peng, Michiel van de Panne

Conference SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Motion Synthesis Motion In-Betweening Diffusion Model Keyframe Control Character Animation

Iterative Motion Editing with Natural Language

Purvi Goel, Kuan-Chieh Wang, C. Karen Liu, Kayvon Fatahalian

Conference SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Motion Editing Character Animation Large Language Model Motion Diffusion Natural Language

MoConVQ: Unified Physics-Based Motion Control via Scalable Discrete Representations

Heyuan Yao, Zhenhua Song, Yuyang Zhou, Tenglong Ao, Baoquan Chen, Libin Liu

Journal SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Motion Control VQ-VAE Discrete Motion Representation Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Character Animation Text-to-Motion Large Language Models Residual Vector Quantization

Semantic Gesticulator: Semantics-Aware Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis

Zeyi Zhang, Tenglong Ao, Yuyao Zhang, Qingzhe Gao, Chuan Lin, Baoquan Chen, Libin Liu

Journal SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis Retrieval Augmentation Large Language Model Residual VQ-VAE GPT Motion Generation Semantic Gestures Multimodality Character Animation

Strategy and Skill Learning for Physics-based Table Tennis Animation

Jiashun Wang, Jessica K. Hodgins, Jungdam Won

Conference SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Animation Reinforcement Learning Character Animation Multi-Character Interaction Virtual Reality

SuperPADL: Scaling Language-Directed Physics-Based Control with Progressive Supervised Distillation

Jordan Juravsky, Yunrong Guo, Sanja Fidler, Xue Bin Peng

Conference SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Animation Reinforcement Learning Motion Synthesis Policy Distillation Character Animation

Taming Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Character Control

Rui Chen, Mingyi Shi, Shaoli Huang, Ping Tan, Taku Komura, Xuelin Chen

Conference SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Character Control Character Animation Diffusion Model Autoregressive Model Real-Time Animation

TEDi: Temporally-Entangled Diffusion for Long-Term Motion Synthesis

Zihan Zhang, Richard Liu, Rana Hanocka, Kfir Aberman

Conference SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Motion Synthesis Diffusion Model Character Animation Autoregressive Generation

WalkTheDog: Cross-Morphology Motion Alignment via Phase Manifolds

Peizhuo Li, Sebastian Starke, Yuting Ye, Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Conference SIGGRAPH 2024 Animation & Simulation

Motion Alignment Phase Manifold Vector Quantization Motion Matching Character Animation Motion Retargeting

AMOR: Adaptive Character Control through Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning

Lucas N. Alegre, Agon Serifi, Ruben Grandia, David Müller, Espen Knoop, Moritz Bächer

Conference meta-only SIGGRAPH 2025 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Reinforcement Learning Multi-Objective Optimization Physics-Based Simulation Motion Tracking

AnyTop: Character Animation Diffusion with Any Topology

Inbar Gat, Sigal Raab, Guy Tevet, Yuval Reshef, Amit Haim Bermano, Daniel Cohen-Or

Conference SIGGRAPH 2025 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Motion Synthesis Diffusion Model Skeleton Topology Graph Transformer

Diffuse-CLoC: Guided Diffusion for Physics-based Character Look-ahead Control

Xiaoyu Huang, Takara Truong, Yunbo Zhang, Fangzhou Yu, Jean-Pierre Sleiman, Jessica K. Hodgins, Koushil Sreenath, Farbod Farshidian

Journal SIGGRAPH 2025 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Diffusion Model Physics-Based Control Classifier Guidance Motion Synthesis Look-Ahead Control

Large-Scale Multi-Character Interaction Synthesis

Ziyi Chang, He Wang, George Alex Koulieris, Hubert P. H. Shum

Conference SIGGRAPH 2025 Animation & Simulation

Motion Synthesis Multi-Character Interaction Diffusion Model Reinforcement Learning Character Animation

Motion Control via Metric-Aligning Motion Matching

Naoki Agata, Takeo Igarashi

Conference SIGGRAPH 2025 Animation & Simulation

Motion Control Motion Alignment Optimal Transport Gromov-Wasserstein Motion Matching Character Animation

Multi-Person Interaction Generation from Two-Person Motion Priors

Wenning Xu, Shiyu Fan, Paul Henderson, Edmond S. L. Ho

Conference SIGGRAPH 2025 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Motion Synthesis Diffusion Model Multi-Person Interaction Close Interaction

PLT: Part-Wise Latent Tokens as Adaptable Motion Priors for Physically Simulated Characters

Jinseok Bae, Younghwan Lee, Donggeun Lim, Young Min Kim

Conference meta-only SIGGRAPH 2025 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Character Control Motion Priors Latent Representation Reinforcement Learning Character Animation

SkillMimic-V2: Learning Robust and Generalizable Interaction Skills from Sparse and Noisy Demonstrations

Runyi Yu, Yinhuai Wang, Qihan Zhao, Hok Wai Tsui, Jingbo Wang, Ping Tan, Qifeng Chen

Conference SIGGRAPH 2025 Animation & Simulation

Reinforcement Learning Human-Object Interaction Character Animation Imitation Learning Data Augmentation

ViSA: Physics-based Virtual Stunt Actors for Ballistic Stunts

Minseok Kim, Wonjeong Seo, Sung-Hee Lee, Jungdam Won

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH 2025 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Simulation Character Animation Ballistic Motion Stunt Simulation Motion Control

ACT: A Unified Framework for Rigging and Animating Characters with Arbitrary Topologies

Pengyu Long, Weirui Wang, Qingcheng Zhao, Xiaoyang Guo, Xiaoyu Pan, Qixuan Zhang, Jiaqing Zhou, Tianlei Hu, Wei Yang, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Character Rigging Character Animation Arbitrary Topology Auto-Rigging Skinning

AMOR: Airborne Motion Reconstruction via Homotopy-Aware Trajectory Optimization

Chanha Kim, Jungdam Won

Conference meta-only SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Motion Reconstruction Trajectory Optimization Physics-Based Animation Character Animation Homotopy

ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation

Kaifeng Zhao, Mathis Petrovich, Haotian Zhang, Tingwu Wang, Siyu Tang, Davis Rempe

Journal SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Human Motion Generation Diffusion Model Autoregressive Model Real-Time Rendering Character Animation

Deep Motion Warping via Phase-Conditioned Diffusion Autoencoder

Bowen Zheng, Linjun Wu, Xinwei Jiang, Yujin Chai, Zijiao Zeng, He Wang, Xiaogang Jin

Conference meta-only SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Motion Warping Diffusion Model Character Animation Motion Phase Autoencoder

MOCHI: Motion Enhancement of Collaborative Human-object Interactions

Jiye Lee, Yonghun Choi, Jungdam Won

Journal SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Human-Object Interaction Motion Capture Diffusion Model Motion Prior Grasp Synthesis Character Animation

MotionBricks: Scalable Real-Time Motions with Modular Latent Generative Model and Smart Primitives

Tingwu Wang, Olivier Dionne, Michael de Ruyter, David Minor, Davis Rempe, Kaifeng Zhao, Mathis Petrovich, Ye Yuan, Chenran Li, Zhengyi Luo, Brian Robison, Xavier Blackwell, Bernardo Antoniazzi, Xue Bin Peng, Yuke Zhu, Simon Yuen

Journal SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Motion Synthesis Character Animation Generative Model Motion In-Betweening Humanoid Robot Real-Time

MUSIC: Learning Muscle-Driven Dexterous Hand Control

Pei Xu, Yufei Ye, Shuchun Sun, Yu Ding, Elizabeth Schumann, C. Karen Liu

Journal SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Control Muscle-Driven Simulation Dexterous Manipulation Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Character Animation VAE

ReActor: Reinforcement Learning for Physics-Aware Motion Retargeting

David Müller, Agon Serifi, Sammy Christen, Ruben Grandia, Espen Knoop, Moritz Bächer

Journal SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Motion Retargeting Reinforcement Learning Bilevel Optimization Character Animation Physics-Based Simulation Humanoid Robot

Skinned Motion Retargeting with Spatially Adaptive Interaction Guidance

Soojin Choi, Seokhyeon Hong, Chaelin Kim, Junghyun Nam, Junhyuk Jeon, Junyong Noh

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Motion Retargeting Character Animation Self-Contact Graph Neural Network Skinned Character

SMP: Reusable Score-Matching Motion Priors for Physics-Based Character Control

Yuxuan Mu, Ziyu Zhang, Yi Shi, Dun Yang, Minami Matsumoto, Kotaro Imamura, Guy Tevet, Chuan Guo, Michael Taylor, Chang Shu, Pengcheng Xi, Xue Bin Peng

Journal SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Character Control Reinforcement Learning Diffusion Model Score Distillation Sampling Motion Prior Character Animation

STyMo: Fast and Controllable Few-Shot Motion Style Transfer

Jose Luis Ponton, Alexander W. Winkler, Ladislav Kavan, Yuting Ye, Petr Kadlecek

Journal SIGGRAPH 2026 Animation & Simulation

Motion Style Transfer Character Animation Few-Shot Learning Transformer Motion Synthesis

ACE: Adversarial Correspondence Embedding for Cross Morphology Motion Retargeting from Human to Nonhuman Characters

Tianyu Li, Jungdam Won, Alexander Clegg, Jeonghwan Kim, Akshara Rai, Sehoon Ha

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Animation & Simulation

Motion Retargeting Adversarial Learning GAN Character Animation Latent Embedding

Discovering Fatigued Movements for Virtual Character Animation

Noshaba Cheema, Rui Xu, Nam Hee Kim, Perttu Hämäläinen, Vladislav Golyanik, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt, Philipp Slusallek

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Animation Reinforcement Learning Adversarial Imitation Learning Fatigue Modeling Biomechanics Character Animation

DROP: Dynamics Responses from Human Motion Prior and Projective Dynamics

Yifeng Jiang, Jungdam Won, Yuting Ye, C. Karen Liu

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Animation Motion Prior Projective Dynamics Character Animation Generative Model Human Motion Synthesis

MOCHA: Real-Time Motion Characterization via Context Matching

Deok-Kyeong Jang, Yuting Ye, Jungdam Won, Sung-Hee Lee

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Animation & Simulation

Motion Style Transfer Character Animation Motion Matching Transformer Variational Autoencoder Real-Time Rendering

Neural Categorical Priors for Physics-Based Character Control

Qingxu Zhu, He Zhang, Mengting Lan, Lei Han

Journal SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Animation & Simulation

Physics-Based Character Control Reinforcement Learning VQ-VAE Motion Prior Character Animation Multi-Agent

Neural Motion Graph

Hongyu Tao, Shuaiying Hou, Changqing Zou, Hujun Bao, Weiwei Xu

Conference meta-only SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Animation & Simulation

Motion Synthesis Character Animation Neural Network Motion Graph

Object Motion Guided Human Motion Synthesis

Jiaman Li, Jiajun Wu, C. Karen Liu

Journal SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Animation & Simulation

Human-Object Interaction Diffusion Model Motion Synthesis Character Animation Contact Modeling

SAME: Skeleton-Agnostic Motion Embedding for Character Animation

Sunmin Lee, Taeho Kang, Jungnam Park, Jehee Lee, Jungdam Won

Conference meta-only SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Motion Retargeting Motion Embedding Skeleton-Agnostic

SFLSH: Shape-Dependent Soft-Flesh Avatars

Pablo Ramón, Cristian Romero, Javier Tapia, Miguel A. Otaduy

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Animation & Simulation

Soft Tissue Simulation Finite Element Method SMPL Character Animation Parameter Interpolation

Body Gesture Generation for Multimodal Conversational Agents

Sunwoo Kim, Minwook Chang, Yoonhee Kim, Jehee Lee

Conference meta-only SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Animation & Simulation

Gesture Generation Conversational Agents Multimodal Character Animation

Decoupling Contact for Fine-Grained Motion Style Transfer

Xiangjun Tang, Linjun Wu, He Wang, Yiqian Wu, Bo Hu, Songnan Li, Xu Gong, Yuchen Liao, Qilong Kou, Xiaogang Jin

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Animation & Simulation

Motion Style Transfer Character Animation Contact Control Motion Manifold Transformer

ELMO: Enhanced Real-time LiDAR Motion Capture through Upsampling

Deok-Kyeong Jang, Dongseok Yang, Deok-Yun Jang, Byeoli Choi, Sung-Hee Lee, Donghoon Shin

Journal SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Animation & Simulation

Motion Capture LiDAR Point Cloud Motion Upsampling Transformer Character Animation

Geometry-Aware Retargeting for Two-Skinned Characters Interaction

Inseo Jang, Soojin Choi, Seokhyeon Hong, Chaelin Kim, Junyong Noh

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Animation & Simulation

Motion Retargeting Character Animation Skinned Characters Interaction Geometry-Aware

Multi-Resolution Real-Time Deep Pose-Space Deformation

Mianlun Zheng, Jernej Barbic

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Animation & Simulation

Pose Space Deformation Skinning Neural Network Multi Resolution Real-Time Deformation Character Animation

PDP: Physics-Based Character Animation via Diffusion Policy

Takara Everest Truong, Michael Piseno, Zhaoming Xie, C. Karen Liu

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Reinforcement Learning Diffusion Model Behavior Cloning Motion Tracking

RoMo: A Robust Solver for Full-body Unlabeled Optical Motion Capture

Xiaoyu Pan, Bowen Zheng, Xinwei Jiang, Zijiao Zeng, Qilong Kou, He Wang, Xiaogang Jin

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Animation & Simulation

Motion Capture Character Animation Marker Labeling Inverse Kinematics Point Cloud

Synchronize Dual Hands for Physics-Based Dexterous Guitar Playing

Pei Xu, Ruocheng Wang

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Animation & Simulation

Physical Simulation Dexterous Hand Control Reinforcement Learning Multi Agent Collaboration Character Animation Motion Synthesis

CFC: Simulating Character-Fluid Coupling using a Two-Level World Model

Zhiyang Dou, Chen Peng, Xinyu Lu, Xiaohan Ye, Lixing Fang, Yuan Liu, Wenping Wang, Chuang Gan, Lingjie Liu, Taku Komura

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Fluid Coupling World Model Reinforcement Learning Physics Based Simulation

Control Operators for Interactive Character Animation

Ruiyu Gou, Daniel Holden

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Interactive Control Neural Controllers Motion Matching Flow Matching

Environment-aware Motion Matching

Jose Luis Ponton, Sheldon Andrews, Carlos Andujar, Nuria Pelechano

Journal SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Motion Matching Crowd Animation Collision Avoidance Real-Time Animation

FreeMusco: Motion-Free Learning of Latent Control for Morphology-Adaptive Locomotion in Musculoskeletal Characters

Minkwan Kim, Yoonsang Lee

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Motion-Free Learning Musculoskeletal Simulation Reinforcement Learning Character Animation Locomotion Control Latent Space

From Rigging to Waving: 3D-Guided Diffusion for Natural Animation of Hand-Drawn Characters

Jie Zhou, Linzi Qu, Miu-Ling Lam, Hongbo Fu

Journal SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Video Diffusion Model Secondary Motion Skeletal Animation Hand-Drawn Character Non-Photorealistic Rendering

Generating Detailed Character Motion from Blocking Poses

Purvi Goel, Guy Tevet, C. Karen Liu, Kayvon Fatahalian

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Motion Synthesis Diffusion Model Character Animation Keyframe Animation Motion Inbetweening

Learning to Ball: Composing Policies for Long-Horizon Basketball Moves

Pei Xu, Zhen Wu, Ruocheng Wang, Vishnu Sarukkai, Kayvon Fatahalian, Ioannis Karamouzas, Victor Zordan, C. Karen Liu

Journal SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Character Animation Physics-Based Control Reinforcement Learning Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Policy Composition Motion Synthesis Adversarial Imitation Learning Basketball

Motion2Motion: Cross-topology Motion Transfer with Sparse Correspondence

Ling-Hao Chen, Yuhong Zhang, Zixin Yin, Zhiyang Dou, Xin Chen, Jingbo Wang, Taku Komura, Lei Zhang

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Motion Transfer Cross-Topology Motion Matching Skeleton Retargeting Training-Free Character Animation

SMF: Template-free and Rig-free Animation Transfer using Kinetic Codes

Sanjeev Muralikrishnan, Niladri Shekhar Dutt, Niloy J. Mitra

Journal SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Animation Transfer Motion Retargeting Self Supervised Learning Neural Jacobian Fields Motion Latent Space Character Animation

StableMotion: Training Motion Cleanup Models with Unpaired Corrupted Data

Yuxuan Mu, Hung Yu Ling, Yi Shi, Ismael Baira Ojeda, Pengcheng Xi, Chang Shu, Fabio Zinno, Xue Bin Peng

Conference SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Motion Capture Motion Cleanup Diffusion Model Motion Synthesis Character Animation

Ultrafast and Controllable Online Motion Retargeting for Game Scenarios

Tianze Guo, Zhedong Chen, Yi Jiang, Linjun Wu, Xilei Wei, Lang Xu, Yeshuang Lin, He Wang, Xiaogang Jin

Journal meta-only SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Animation & Simulation

Motion Retargeting Online Retargeting Character Animation Game Scenarios Real Time Controllable Animation