Links to resources concerning character animation

Links concerning character animation and motion capture

History of Computer Graphics, an excellent column
Computer Animation course at University of Wisconsin taught by M. Gleicher
Computer Animation course at Georia Institute of Technology
Computer Animation Information Page, links to a lot of animation resources, by Rick Parent
Rotating Objects Using Quaternions, Gamasutra tutorial (conversions between matrices, quaternions and Euler angles, SLERP, and corresponding efficient procedures in C)
Orientation & Quaternions, Various representations of orientation and more modern view on quaternions
Character Animation, SIGGRAPH educational materials
Human Walking from animator's point of view, with nice expressive pictures /local copy/
Artificial Life in Computer Graphics, a lot of top research animations
Advanced Character Physics, resource guide on Gamasutra
Motion Capture - Hot Links, a lot of motion capture links (hardware, research groups, resources, software, …)
MoCap Info, links to MC full papers online
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Materials from SIGGRAPH 2001 and 2002, available online
An Annotatated Bibliography for Motion Capture and Computer Animation, local copy saved from online SIGGRAPH '01 Course #51

The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio State University and motion capture research there
Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Ohio State University, computer animation research and its chief Rick Parent
MIRALab, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
Virtual Reality Lab, Daniel Thalmann
Michael Gleicher, motion capture, editing, retargeting, motion library
James F. O'Brien, various animation research
Zoran Popović, motion synthesis and body modeling research at SIGGRAPH level
Humanoid Animation Working Group, working group of W3C
CGG CTU, Vladimír Štěpán - Humanoid Animation

Motion Capture Viewer and Motion Blender, simple programs for viewing BVH files
Pin.8: Motion Capture Analysis and Reconstruction System, a new GPL licenced program for optical motion capture data post-processing (using IDF file format)
Mosey: Motion Capture Playback and Cleanup, a simple program with sources in C++ with OpenGL for basic processing of raw MC data and interactive marker identification
Cal3D, a free character animation library with sources in C++
Maya Personal Learning Edition, edition for free download
Motek Stockmoves, a free web-based library of various human movements (in BVH format)
Free BVH Files, needs free registration
Help3D.com, free motion capture data, textures, 3D models, fonts,… Excelent site!
3D Games Resources, 3d models, textures, sounds
Some motion capture data at Ohio State University

Update: 20. 10. 2005