💃 Animation Department

All character animation demos in one place: VRM avatars, BVH motion capture playback, salsa dancing, and hand-gesture controlled animation — built with Three.js and tuned for Meta Quest headsets.

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What's on stage

Scenes animate VRM models with BVH motion data (largely from the CMU Salsa collection) and respond to hand gestures: open your hand to start or resume, close it to pause. They also open on desktop browsers with orbit controls.

VRM avatars BVH motion capture Salsa (CMU) Gesture control

VRM & dance basics

Single-character animation and dance playback.

Dance

Start the dance by opening your hand.

VRM model animation

Start the animation by opening your hand.

VRM model dance

Start the dance by opening your hand.

Salsa

Bars, lessons, and parties powered by the CMU Salsa BVH collection.

Salsa bar (fast)

Start the dance by opening your hand.

Salsa bar (slow)

2 VRM models animated with the complete Salsa BVH collection, originally from CMU.

Salsa lesson

Follow the leader’s hand and shoe moves. Open your hand to resume, close to pause. Camera: Thumb+Ring = orbit camera; Thumb+Pinky = orbit origin.

Salsa party

Victorian Greenhouse. 8 VRM models animated with the Salsa BVH collection (CMU).

Salsa party 2

“Ehemalige Kleeblatt Tankstelle Hannover”. 6 VRM models animated with Salsa BVH (CMU).

Salsa party 3

“Ehemalige Kleeblatt Tankstelle Hannover”. Three.js VR hand models + 2 VRM models (Salsa BVH). JS implementation.

Salsa party 4

“Ehemalige Kleeblatt Tankstelle Hannover”. 8 VRM models (Salsa BVH). Control animation with hand gestures.

BVH motion capture tests

Raw rigged-character BVH playback experiments.

BVH test

Drunk walking 10‑minute rigged pirate.

BVH test 2

Jack Sparrow drunk walking on a tilting plane.

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