Towards Storytelling Animations: Joint Synthesis of Human and Camera Motions

摘要

To tell a story effectively, a 3D animation often necessitates carefully planned behaviors of both characters and the camera in the 3D scene, where the camera placement and movement determine how the characters are displayed on screen. Thus, creating storytelling animations can be challenging. While significant progress has been made in the fields of character motion synthesis and virtual cinematography, previous methods focus on either character motion generation or camera motion generation, falling short of handling the two tasks simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion-based generative model to jointly synthesize character and camera motions in 3D space for creating storytelling 3D animations. Our model treats individual characters and the camera in a 3D scene as independent, equally important entities, and explicitly models pairwise interactions among them in the generation process. By being trained on a mixture dataset of real and synthetic character-camera motion data, our model is capable of generating high-quality multi-character motions coupled with compelling camera motions. We show that our model outperforms existing specialized approaches on the human motion generation and camera motion tasks.