1. Physically based character animation Eli Marable

2. What is it? Attempting to make character walk on uneven surfaces Challenge: making feet line up with the ground Image credit: Rune Skovbo Johansen: "Dynamic Walking With Semi-Procedural Animation" (GDC 2009)"Dynamic Walking With Semi-Procedural Animation"

3. How to do this? Inverse Kinematics – A method for finding joint orientations from a given endpoint Image credit: Hugo Elias: "Inverse Kinematics - Improved Methods" (2004)"Inverse Kinematics - Improved Methods"

4. What has been done so far? OpenGL environment Support for generating heightmaps Creating skeletons from bones and joints Vector and Quaternion math

5. What still needs to be done? Fix bugs in skeleton code Write the IK solver Add animation