Footskate Cleanup for Motion Capture Editing

By: Lucas Kovar, John Schreiner, and Michael Gleicher
Many motion capture editing operations result in the feet of the character moving when they ought to remain planted. We present a simple, efficient algorithm for removing this footskate.

Video from our 2002 paper “Footskate cleanup for motion capture editing”. This work was published at the Symposium on Computer Animation.

Many motion capture editing operations result in the feet of the character moving when they ought to remain planted. We present a simple, efficient algorithm for removing this footskate.