Character skinning is one of the most important tasks in 3D animations, games design and visual effects in film production. With the development of 3D animations, a good way of skinning becomes an important role. With the increasing requirements of skinning, many new methods and techniques have emerged. The most core part is real-time shape deformations, to make the skin of characters to act more realistic, no informal deformation should happen. This paper introduces skinning technique in 4 categories: geometric methods, physical methods, example based approaches, energy based methods. A brief discussion and comparison of these methods are provided in the end.

Jinning Zhang. Survey of Skinning Method in 3D Character Animation. Academic Journal of Computing & Information Science (2023), Vol. 6, Issue 9: 110-114. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJCIS.2023.060916.

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