• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.519-523
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• 2011

Today, one of the most important reasons that 3D software becomes a core part of the essential tools in the video contents field like the movies, animation, CF, motion graphic, games and etc. is that they can save budget of contents makings and can produce better effects than conventional methods like miniature, matt painting, extra mobilization and etc. and can save time and have the merit that they are not limited in space. In this paper, I analyzed IK(Inverse kinematics) system characteristics for the efficient education of 3D character animation particularly most used of 3D applications which is now supposed to be nearly necessary elements in game, animation, movie and contents. And by analyzing merits and demerits of each tool on Bone, Character studio and Character Animation Toolkit, systems which are most used practically in the various Inverse kinematics tools, I showed the result of analyses about the fact that educating which of the above three Inverse Kinematics tools is helpful and beneficial for the students for the efficient education in the university where should teach much in the limited time

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.49
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• pp.1-23
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• 2017

3D animation production has had a pivotal position in current animation industry and the necessity of professional management tool for 3D animation production has claimed due to its sophisticated pipeline from advance of technology and global production partnership trend. Shotgun and Ftrack are providing the most appropriate management toolset for 3D animation management among the extant management tools and the efficiency of Shotgun & Ftrack is identified compared with the traditional document oriented management style. The biggest strength of production management using Shotgun is that all of the production staff can directly participate in the communication on the tools therefore they can share the information on Shotgun & Ftrack in real time without constraint of time and location. Moreover, all the process of the production and the history of the discussion on certain production issues are systematically accrue on the tool so that the production history can be easily tracked. Finally, the production management using tools contributes collecting and analysing the production information for the production management team in studios. However, Shotgun & Ftrack has metadata based retrieval method which cost huge amount of effort by human's manual annotation and it also has the limitation of accuracy. In addition, the fact that studios has to have technical professionals first in order to institute the tools into their studios is the actual difficulty of Korean studios when they want to use management tools for their project. Thus, this paper suggests adopting the content-based retrieval system on the tools and tools' expanded technical service for the studios as the solution of the identified issues.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.11-21
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• 2023

There have been many studies to improve the efficiency of the CG production process, but it was not easy to overcome the problem that it was difficult to check the result in the middle of work and it took a lot of time for rendering. However, as the possibility of using Unreal Live Link, which can check the result in real-time, is increasing, expectations for improving the efficiency of the production process are rising. This study analyzed the efficiency of the 3D animation production process using Unreal Live Link. To this end, modeling, rigging, animation, and layout work were done in Maya, and the final output image sequence was rendered in Unreal Engine through Unreal Live Link. And the difference between this production process and the existing production process in which the final output image sequence is rendered in the 3D software itself was compared and analyzed. As a result of the analysis, unlike the traditional 3D animation production process, it was possible to check the final work result in real-time by proceeding with the work through a high-quality viewport screen, and it was found that the efficiency of work was maximized by deriving the final result through real-time screen capture. Recently, the use of game engines in the 3D animation and film industry is gradually increasing, and the efficiency of work is expected to be maximized if Unreal Live Link is used.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.36
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• pp.147-165
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• 2014

Around the turn of 21st century, there has been a major technological shift in the animation industry. With development of reality-based computer graphics, major American animation studios replaced hand-drawn method with the new 3D computer graphics. Traditional animation was known for its simplified shapes such as circles and triangle that makes characters' movements distinctive from non-animated feature films. Computer-generated animation has largely replaced it, but is under continuous criticism that automated movements and reality-like graphics devaluate the aesthetics of animation. Although hand-drawn animation is still produced, 3D computer graphics have taken commercial lead and there has been many changes to acting of animated characters, which calls for detailed investigation. Firstly, the changes in acting of 3D characters can be traced from looking at human-like rigging method that mimics humanistic moving mechanism. Also, if hair and clothing was part of hand-drawn characters' acting, it has now been hidden inside mathematical simulation of 3D graphics, leaving only the body to be used in acting. Secondly, looking at "Stretch and Squash" method, which represents the distinctive movements of animation, through the lens of media, a paradox arises. Hand-drawn animation are produced frame-by-frame, and a subtle change would make animated frames shiver. This slight shivering acts as an aesthetic distinction of animated feature films, but can also require exaggerated movements to hide the shivering. On the contrary, acting of 3D animation make use of calculated movements that may seem exaggerated compared to human acting, but seem much more moderate and static compared to hand-drawn acting. Moreover, 3D computer graphics add the third dimension that allows more intuitive movements - maybe animators no longer need fine drawing skills; what they now need is directing skills to animate characters in 3D space intuitively. On the assumption that technological advancement and change of artistic expressionism are inseparable, this paper compares acting of 3D animation studio Pixar and classical drawing studio Disney to investigate character acting style and movements.

• Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.3_4
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• pp.65-77
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• 2005

비사실적 렌더링 기술의 발전과 더불어 동양의 전통적인 화법인 수묵화에 대한 관심도 증가했다. 최근에는 수묵화 스타일의 애니메이션이 CF를 비롯해 컴퓨터 게임에도 사용되면서 그 영역을 확대하고 있다. 하지만 서양의 화법과는 달리 수묵화 렌더링은 연구가 많이 진행되지 않았다. 따라서 앞으로 많은 연구가 이루어질 것으로 예상되고 있으며 그 응용범위 역시 매우 넓을 것으로 기대하고 있다. 이 글에서는 수묵화 렌더링 기술의 중요한 연구 결과를 설명하고 그 응용 사례를 살펴보기로 한다. 또한 지금까지의 연구 동향 분석을 바탕으로 앞으로의 발전 방향을 제시하려 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.585-588
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• 2003

최근의 영화나 애니메이션에 자주 등장하는 디지털 인간 캐릭터의 제작에서 사실적인 피부 렌더링을 위하여 다양한 공학적, 예술적 접근이 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사실적인 피부렌더링을 위해 subsurface illumination 테크닉을 이용한 쉐이더를 구현하고 아티스트들의 효율적인 제어를 위해 보다 직관적인 인터페이스를 제안하였다. 구현한 쉐이더는 3D 그래픽 응용 프로그램인 Maya의 플러그인 형태로 제작되었으며 기존의 전통적인 쉐이딩 인터페이스와의 조화를 고려하여 제안된 매개변수들을 확장 형태로 제공하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.195-196
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• 2007

우리는 비디오의 모션을 전통적인 애니메이션과 같은 스타일로 변환하는 시스템을 제안한다. 우리의 시스템은 비디오의 물리적인 상황에 맞게 자연스러운 변형을 손쉽게 적용할 수 있는 새로운 비디오의 만화화 방법이다. 선택된 비디오 오브젝트의 운동량, 운동방향, 힘과 같은 물리적인 요인들을 분석하여 물리적으로 타당한 변형을 적용함으로써 자연스러운 효과를 적용한다는 것이 장점이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.91-94
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• 2003

지식정보화시대인 21세기는 문화가치의 중요성이 부각되고 있으며, 전통문화에 첨단기술을 적용(CT: Culture Technology)하여 디지털화하고 이를 대중화, 상품화하는 작업이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구는 조선시대 궁중에서 왕비가 손수 뽕을 따고 누에를 쳐서 양잠을 장려한 궁중의식으로 위민정신과 민본사상이 담겨져 있는 친잠례(親蠶禮)와 친잠의궤(親蠶儀軌)를 동영상과 3D 애니메이션으로 제작하고, 멀티미디어 개발 시스템을 통하여 하이퍼미디어 정보 서비스를 제공한다. 이를 통하여 한국 전통문화의 아름다움을 세계에 알린다.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.20
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• pp.15-29
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• 2010

Art & Culture Education for improving quality of life and cultural empowerment through the enjoyment of culture and the arts has spread as a variety of programs. However, Art & Culture Education in school has problems in the aspect of functional and superficial contents and ways of class. To achieve the ultimate purpose of Art & Culture Education and to take place as a effective education, quantitative growth in addition to qualitative depth should be considered. The purpose of this study is to develop the integrated Art & Culture Education model in elementary school curriculum using short animations of Korea, for improving the quality and vitalization of Art & Culture Education. For the interdisciplinary education short animation can be an effective asthetical teaching material, which transmits the world view, personality, social and historical reflection of the director. (2003) is a modern interpretation of a myth, which is Woncheongang Bonfuri from Cheju, and folkore paintings. This film can be such a stuff for the interdisciplinary class Korean and Ethics that language intellect and reflection intellect can be motivated. Moreover the thoughts and feelings about the film can be formulated in text, toon, painting that students can extend their language intellect and space intellect. communicates typically korean emotion and nature with its rural atmosphere and boy figure. With this film we can deliver a interdisciplinary class of science and art.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.49
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• pp.697-712
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• 2017

In recent years, film and animation for cinematic release have embraced stereoscopic vision and the three-dimensional depth it creates for the viewer. The maturation of consumer-level virtual reality (VR) technology simultaneously spurred a wave of media productions set within 3D space, ranging from computer games to pornographic videos, to Academy Award-nominated animated VR short film Pearl. All of these works rely on stereoscopic fusion through stereopsis, that is, the perception of depth produced by the brain from left and right images with the amount of binocular parallax that corresponds to our eyes. They aim to emulate normal human vision. Within more experimental practices however, a fully rendered 3D space might not always be desirable. In my own abstract animation work, I tend to favour 2D flatness and the relative obfuscation of spatial relations it affords, as this underlines the visual abstraction I am pursuing. Not being able to immediately understand what is in front and what is behind can strengthen the desired effects. In 2015, Jeffrey Shaw challenged me to create a stereoscopic work for Animamix Biennale 2015-16, which he co-curated. This prompted me to question how stereoscopy, rather than hyper-defining space within three dimensions, might itself be used to achieve a confusion of spatial perception. And in turn, how abstract and experimental moving image practices can benefit from stereoscopy to open up new visual and narrative opportunities, if used in ways that break with, or go beyond stereoscopic fusion. Noteworthy works which exemplify a range of non-traditional, expanded approaches to binocular vision will be discussed below, followed by a brief introduction of the stereoscopic animation loop III=III which I created for Animamix Biennale. The techniques employed in these works might serve as a toolkit for artists interested in exploring a more experimental, expanded engagement with stereoscopy.