The allurement of character animation and dance performance lie in motion behavior. Character animation and dance performance utilize exaggerative or symbolic motion to describe a situation of the story. In addition, a complete dance drama needs good light, the suitable script, music to cooperate with, and those elements are tantamount to the need of a good character animation. So as regards some angles, characters animation and dance performances are the same or similar in some elements.

However, the roles of a cartoon and dance performance art have different fields. The animation is one in the eighth art, besides those elements were mentioned above, there are ideas of photography and application of the lens, movies, and, the glamour of actors. The dance performance art emphasizes that emblem expression image, focus on the limbs aesthetic feeling and strength, and the whole harmonious stage.

Utilizing modern technology, we can use motion capture to catch the dance movement.

It is not news that combines two different fields of performance art. But how could we reuse the data of motion capture and apply the data to non-biped character? And how could we use the motion to edit to do it? This must be the value of the creation.

Keyword: Character animation, Computer animation, Dance performance, Motion capture, Motion editing