  This paper presents a novel approach for exploring diverse and expressive
motions that are physically correct and interactive. The approach combining
user participation in with the animation development process using
crowdsourcing to remove the need for data-driven libraries while address
aesthetic limitations. A core challenge for character animation solutions that
do not use pre-recorded data is they are constrained to specific actions or
appear unnatural and out of place (compared to real-life movements). Character
movements are very subjective to human perception (easily identify underlying
unnatural or strange patterns with simple actions, such as walking or
climbing). We present an approach that leverage's crowdsourcing to reduce these
uncanny artifacts within generated character animations. Crowdsourcing
animations is an uncommon practice due to the complexities of having multiple
people working in parallel on a single animation. A web-based solution for
analysis and animation is presented in this paper. It allows users to optimize
and evaluate complicated character animation mechanism conveniently on-line.
The context of this paper introduces a simple animation system, which is
integrated into a web-based solution (JavaScript/HTML5). Since Web browser are
commonly available on computers, the presented application is easy to use on
any platform from any location (easy to maintain and share). Our system
combines the expressive power of web pages for visualising content on-the-fly
with a fully fledged interactive (physics-based) animation solution that
includes a rich set of libraries.
