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SmartBody is a character animation platform that provides the following capabilities in real time:

• Locomotion (walk, jog, run, turn, strafe, jump, etc.)
• Steering - avoiding obstacles and moving objects
• Object manipulation - reach, grasp, touch , point at and pick up objects
• Lip Syncing - characters can speak with simultaneous lip-sync using text-to-speech or prerecorded audio
• Gazing - robust gazing behavior that incorporates various parts of the body
• Nonverbal behavior - gesturing, head nodding and shaking, eye saccades

SmartBody is written in C++ and can be incorporated into most game and simulation engines. We currently have interfaces for the following engines:

• Unity
• Ogre
• Unreal
• Panda3D
• GameBryo

SmartBody is developed at the University of Southern California.

Full body IK

Locomotion

Crowds, locomotion and steering

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Project Admins:

• Eddie Fast
• Ari Shapiro