According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method for simulating movement of a living object includes storing a plurality of sets of data, in which each set of data is indicative of an empirical path of a first segment of a first living object, receiving a start point and an end point for a desired movement of a second segment of a second living object, comparing the desired movement of the second segment to the stored sets of data, selecting, based on the comparison, a stored set of data that is representative of the desired movement of the second segment, and simulating the desired movement of the second segment based on the start point, the end point, and the empirical path associated with the selected set of data.