Animation of Articulated Figures Controlled by Inverse Kinematics with Style

We present IKCooper, an animation system for representing articulated figures controlled by Inverse Kinematics with style. An example of use is described, in which two articulated humanoid characters achieve completion of a cooperative task. This task consists of transfering, with style, objects from one table to another one. Input data obtained by motion capture are also used to generate characters with more realistic movements. The results show that the imposed cooperative task was successfully accomplished and that, the inclusion of style, albeit using a rather simple approach, contributed to the synthesis of more smooth and convincing movements.