Computer animation of human walking: a survey

This paper surveys the set of techniques developed in computer graphics for animating human walking. First we focus on the evolution from purely kinematic ‘knowledge-based’ methods to approaches that incorporate dynamic constraints or use dynamic simulations to generate motion. Then we review the recent advances in motion editing that enable the control of complex animations by interactively blending and tuning synthetic or captured motions. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.