Motion Planning and Animation Variety Using Dance Motion Clips

Our goal is to create dancing crowds in cyber worlds and to use this feature to support creative endeavors such as pre-visualization of choreography and actual stage performances. In this paper we present a method of motion planning using dance motion clips. We describe a trial algorithm of collision avoidance using a grid map. We also present methods to create variety in animation for dance choreographies. As a result, we confirmed that most collisions could be avoided by the motion planning method. However, the need for some improvements in creating a conceptual dancing crowd was found.