H-Anim

1. Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) WG Meeting

• Regular Meetings: 1st Wednesday of month at 5pm, PDT or PST for 1 hour
• Next Meeting: March 6 (Wednesday), 2013, at 5pm, PST
• Agenda and Minutes

2. New work items and working draft

• New Work Item Proposal nwip_HAnim120912

• Working Draft for the H-Anim motion definition (in preparation) H-Anim Motion Definition

3. Previous work

• Web3D members-only H-Anim wiki
• Accommodating Diverse Models (also linked there for members: Proposed amendment to H-Anim Specification)
• Proposed amendment to H-Anim Specification
• H-Anim http://www.web3d.org/realtime-3d/h-anim
• ISO 19774 H-Anim Specification http://www.web3d.org/files/specifications/19774/V1.0/
• X3D Humanoid animation (H-Anim) component http://www.web3d.org/files/specifications/19775-1/V3.2/Part01/components/hanim.html
• H-Anim examples http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/HumanoidAnimation/
• Player support - shows five full implementations and three partial implementations http://www.web3d.org/x3d/wiki/index.php/Player_support_for_X3D_components
• Tool support - shows five full implementations and two partial implementations http://www.web3d.org/x3d/wiki/index.php/Tool_support_for_X3D_components
• X3D Tool-tips includes multilingual synopses of H-Anim nodes and fields http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#Tooltips
• Previous incomplete works: H-Anim: Accommodating Diverse Models, on the member wiki:
  • http://www.web3d.org/membership/login/memberwiki/index.php/Accommodating_Diverse_Models
  • http://www.igraphics.com/Standards/ISO_IEC_19774_WAM1_2009_01_12/index.html
• H-Anim mailing list and archives (for subscribers):
  • http://web3d.org/mailman/listinfo/h-anim_web3d.org/
  • http://web3d.org/mailman/private/h-anim_web3d.org/

4. Resources

• H-Anim Executive Summary for more Working Group information
• H-Anim working group
• Humanoid Animation V1.0 Specification (.zip)
• H-Anim Examples in the X3D Basic Examples Archive
• H-Anim examples archive:

H-Anim Behavior Prototypes

Prototypes for HAnimBehavior node, which collects OrientationInterpolators for aggregate animation of an H-Anim humanoid model, and

HAnimBodyBehaviorChooser, which selects one body and enables/disables multiple aggregate behaviors.

• http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/HumanoidAnimation/
• http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/HumanoidAnimation/Web3D2007BlendedBehaviorsChangeableBodies.pdf
• http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/HumanoidAnimation/ApaydinThesis.pdf

5. Standards Development

• Specification
• Conformance
• Examples

6. H-Anim WG Charter

• March 2012: H-Anim Working Group Draft Charter materials by Web3D Korean Chapter

7. WG Members

• William Glascoe
• Joe D. Williams
• Keith Victor
• David Bruner
• Anita Havele
• Richard F. Puk
• Don Brutzman
• Kwan-Hee Yoo
• Myeong Won Lee

Current Work

Joe and Don are working on

• Confirming first the status of all current work relative to the approved H-Anim Specification
  • updating web3d.org
  • X3D examples for H-Anim
  • X3D tooltips
  • X3D Player Support for H-Anim
  • X3D Authoring Tool Support for H-Anim including X3D-Edit
  • X3D Validator

• Re-opening all the important on H-Anim skinning
  • Definitions, example test scenes, X3D-Edit support
  • Proposing an improved H-Anim component for X3D v3.4
  • Editing a corresponding update to H-Anim ISO 19774 Specification

The larger group is also working on

• interoperable, swappable behaviors
• motion capture
• facial animation