The description of Bunraku puppet's motion in computer based on Labanotation

The authors are researching human and humanoid movement. They discuss the transformation system among the movement score, the movement description in computer and the body movement data which are used to generate computer graphics animation of humanoid movement. The proposed humanoid movement description method can describe not only the movement information which are described by Labanotation but also more detailed movement information. This movement description is called "movement MIDI based on Labanotaton" or "continuous Labanotation", and it exists between the Labanoation (which the choreographer can read but the computer cannot) and the humanoid movement data (which the computer can read but the choreographer cannot). It can be read by both the choreographer and the computer, and it is useful to modify the humanoid movement data in order to modify the CG animation, since the information of Labanotation is not sufficient to generate natural display of CG animation. We report the results of transformation from the humanoid motion captured data into the proposed movement description in computer.