VentureBeat sat down with DeepMotion’s CEO, Kevin He, to discuss the company’s pioneering work on motion intelligence, physics simulation and AI. Check out the excerpt below:
Instead of individually animating characters or avatars, the company leverages AI to do some of the heavy lifting. Kevin He said the
Kuba Seidl joined DeepMotion’s 2018 closed alpha, hoping to achieve interesting new mechanical simulation results using our Unity physics SDK. Excited by his creative use of our engine, we asked him to share more about his work with our team.
Kuba only learned Unity in 2017 after some introductory
Tell us a bit about yourself?
Born in San Francisco, in my early career I spent time in the field of arts as a medical illustrator and as an effects animator, but most of my employment was spent as a
At the foundation of intelligent simulation is a physics-based character model. We call this model our Simulation Rig (or SimRig), which, when configured to a character asset, transforms a typical 3D file into a digital, biomechanical body. The SimRig maps physical attributes to the character
Our demos are often designed to show how intelligent simulation can synthesize even the most complex physical skills—from creating digital Basketball players to simulated stunt men. However, our most recent experiment focuses on simulating something more subtle: body language. Specifically, argumentative gesturing in a multi-character scenario.
Each of the