Motion Matching Resources

Speeches

• Nucl.ai 2015 - Motion Matching - The Road to Next Gen Animation (Michael Buttner)

• AIIDE 2016 - Motion Matching for Realistic Animation in “For Honor” (Simon Clavet)

• GDC 2016 - Motion Matching and The Road to Next-Gen Animation (Simon Clavet) (PPT)

• GDC 2016 - Motion Matching, The Future of Games Animation... Today (Kristjan Zadziuk) ('Dance Card' Breakdown)

• Youtube 2018 - The Last of Us 2 - E3 Demo - Animation Analysis (Dan Lowe)

• GDC 2018 - Character Control with Neural Networks and Machine Learning (Daniel Holden) (PPT)

• CAPCOM RE:2019 - 技術が⽣み出すゲームアニメーション 〜プロシージャルアニメーション／モーションマッチング〜 (橋本 直樹)

• GDC 2020 - Machine Learning Summit: Ragdoll Motion Matching (Simon Clavet)

• Unreal Circle 2021 - 《黑神话：悟空》的Motion Matching (招文勇)

• GDC 2021 - Motion Matching in 'The Last of Us Part II' (Michal Mach, Maksym Zhuravlov) (Test Map)

• GDC 2021 - Take 'CONTROL' of Animation (Ilkka Kuusela, Ville Ruusutie)

• SIGGRAPH 2021 - The Right Foot in the Wrong Place - Character Locomotion in Half-Life:ALYX (Joe van den Heuvel, James Cunliffe, Eddie Parker) (Paper)

Articles

• 2016 - Motion-Matching in Ubisoft's For Hornor

• 2018 - Realtime Animation Tips & Tricks (Joakim Hagdahl)

• 2020 - Learned Motion Matching (Ubisoft La Forge)

• 知乎 2018 - 近年来，游戏行业有哪些提高制作效率的新技术？ - RYAN槐宏武的回答

• 知乎 2018 - Motion Matching 的介绍 (JAY JMS)

• 知乎 2020 - Motion Matching 技术介绍和实现 (网易游戏雷火事业群)

• 知乎 2020 - 从美术角度了解 MotionMatching （启动篇）

• 知乎 2020 - 从美术角度了解 MotionMatching（后悔篇T^T）

• 知乎 2020 - 从美术角度了解 MotionMatching（终篇）

• 知乎 2021 - 【UE4】给Animation加一点料（一）- Motion Matching篇 (徐凯鸣)

Assets

• Ubisoft La Forge Animation Dataset ("LAFAN1")

Unreal Plugins

• Pose Search

• Motion Matching System

• Motion Symphony 

• UE4_MotionMatching- (Hethger)

Unity Speeches

• Unite Berlin 2018 - The Future of Character Animation in Unity High Quality Motion Synthesis

• I3D'19 Keynote: "Machine Learning for Motion Synthesis and Character Control" (Michael Buttner)

Unity Plugins

• Kinematica (Source Code)

• Motion Matching for Unity (Animation Uprising)

• Bringing Characters to Life with Computer Brains in Unity