Accepted for publication for CHI 2012 (ACM Digital Library)

Use your body as a puppetry controller giving life to a virtual silhouette through acting.


We present a solution that allows real-time interactive control of virtual shadow puppets for performance animation based on body motion.
The interaction with the virtual silhouette with this method is somehow similar to the hand shadow performance, where the performer models his hands to create the illusion of a shape, is like mixing the performance of an actor with the manipulation of a puppeteer.

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