Exploring The Potential of VR Interfaces in Animation: A Comprehensive Review

Creating computer animation takes a lot of work and time, it is true to say that animation takes a labor-intensive business. Virtual reality (VR) is then playing quite attractive role in the field of animation where they are looking for an innate and methodical option to today’s rich user interfaces. Earlier work in the field of the animation shows maximum interaction potential of VR-based interfaces. This also expresses the increased spatial awareness resulting from the high immersion flexibility it provides in virtual environments. Existing virtual reality interfaces offer heterogeneous subsets of traditional tools and their functionalities. VR interfaces provide the atmosphere of a real environment to animators. These interfaces make animators feel the environment they are trying to create. Researchers are trying to present more functionalities on the existing animation tools to make them less complex and time taking. This review describes briefly the animation tools, VR-based interfaces, and related work on VR interfaces and areas explored on VR-based interfaces for 3-D animation.