5.1.4 Animating Blended Reality characters
Alphabot is animated using traditional keyframed animation as input into a procedural blending subsystem coupled with real-time procedural motion synthesis and performance animation techniques. Animation clips created in industry-standard, 3D animation content creation applications (e.g. Autodesk’s Maya) are exported as FBX files, a platform-independent 3D data interchange format, and fed into a real-time procedural animation blending engine. This method allows for the integration of handcrafted 3D animation clip playback, sequencing and eventtriggered blending.