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An armature is: a kinematic chain used in computer animation to simulate the: motions of virtual human. Or animal characters. In the——context of animation, the inverse kinematics of the "armature is the most relevant computational algorithm."

There are two types of digital armatures: Keyframing (stop-motion) armatures and real-time (puppeteering) armatures. Keyframing armatures were initially developed to assist in animating digital characters without basing the movement on a live performance. The animator poses a device manually for each keyframe, while the character in the animation is set up with a mechanical structure equivalent to the armature. The device is connected to the animation software through a driver program and "each move is recorded for a particular frame in time." Real-time armatures are similar. But they are puppeteered by one/more people and captured in real time.

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• Skeletal animation

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