• Title/Summary/Keyword: Animation Interface

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A Two Layered Approach for Animation Sketching

  • Sohn, Ei-Sung;Jeon, Jae-Woong;Park, Tae-Jin;Sohn, Won-Sung;Lim, Soon-Bum;Choy, Yoon-Chul
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.1736-1744
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we present an animation sketching system using a two layered approach. Animation sketching is a popular technique to create informal animations but it is often suffered by the low-quality output due to a trade-off between convenience and complexity. Our aim is to support sketching practical animation scenes easily and fast while not complicating the simple sketching interface. The key idea is to combine two conceptual stop motion layers, a whiteboard and cutout animation layer, in a seamless interface. As a background, the whiteboard animation layer handles stroke-oriented objects, while the cutout animation layer takes charge of transform-oriented objects. We found that this approach enables users to express more complicated animation fast while still maintaining a concise sketching interface. We demonstrate the usability and flexibility through resulting animations from user experiments.

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Web Embedded Animation Interface using Cutouts (웹 문서 내장형 컷아웃 애니메이션 인터페이스)

  • Sohn, Ei-Sung;Choy, Yoon-Chul
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.1101-1105
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    • 2010
  • We present a sketch-based animation interface that allows novice users to create informative 2D web animation quickly, In this paper, we uses cutouts as a main animated primitive to allow users to quickly create 'cutouts on whiteboard' style animations. Users can freely draw and write, and at the same time they can easily manipulate animated cutouts to create impressive animations, We demonstrate that our system is capable of creating more impressive animations more quickly than sketch-only animation approaches.

Data-driven Facial Animation Using Sketch Interface (스케치 인터페이스를 이용한 데이터 기반 얼굴 애니메이션)

  • Ju, Eun-Jung;Ahn, Soh-Min;Lee, Je-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.11-18
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    • 2007
  • Creating stylistic facial animation is one of the most important problems in character animation. Traditionally facial animation is created manually by animators of captured using motion capture systems. But this process is very difficult and labor-intensive. In this work, we present an intuitive, easy-to-use, sketch-based user interface system that facilitates the process of creating facial animation and key-frame interpolation method using facial capture data. The user of our system is allowed to create expressive speech facial animation easily and rapidly.

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Development of HMI Which Took in a Animation Object (애니메이션 객체를 도입한 HMI의 개발)

  • Kim, Min-Seok;Kim, Han-Sung;Hong, Jung-Gi
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.10b
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    • pp.463-465
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    • 2005
  • Our society experiences a big change recently for ten years. The public of multimedia by development of a PC and Internet diffusion is it. this situation was applied in the field of industry. HMI of an industrial field experienced a big change these days. it comes out in new general ideas one after another, for example Interface of an Internet base, the animated graphic object, etc.. A study of a book is contents about animation function development of Human Interface Station(HIS) which is HMI of existing DCS system.

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A Character Animation Tool Based on Motion Mapping (모션 매핑 기반의 캐릭터 애니메이션 개발 도구)

  • Lee, Minguen;Lee, Myeong Won
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.43-52
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, we present an animation toolkit based on motion mapping technique in a graphics user interface that can represent data structures necessary for generating character motions. The motion mapping means that an animation sequence generated once can be mapped to another object directly according a data structure in the graphics user interface. Users can generate animation sequences interactively using a mouse. These are obtained automatically by modifying motion data structures interactively. Compared with other conventional tools, the toolkit has different features that two hierarchical structures necessary for representing modeling and animation data are managed independently each other, and that animations generated can be applied to any other characters by connecting the two hierarchical structures in the user interface.

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Animation and Machines: designing expressive robot-human interactions (애니메이션과 기계: 감정 표현 로봇과 인간과의 상호작용 연구)

  • Schlittler, Joao Paulo Amaral
    • Cartoon and Animation Studies
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    • s.49
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    • pp.677-696
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    • 2017
  • Cartoons and consequently animation are an effective way of visualizing futuristic scenarios. Here we look at how animation is becoming ubiquitous and an integral part of this future today: the cybernetic and mediated society that we are being transformed into. Animation therefore becomes a form of speech between humans and this networked reality, either as an interface or as representation that gives temporal form to objects. Animation or specifically animated films usually are associated with character based short and feature films, fiction or nonfiction. However animation is not constricted to traditional cinematic formats and language, the same way that design and communication have become treated as separate fields, however according to $Vil{\acute{e}}m$ Flusser they aren't. The same premise can be applied to animation in a networked culture: Animation has become an intrinsic to design processes and products - as in motion graphics, interface design and three-dimensional visualization. Video-games, virtual reality, map based apps and social networks constitute layers of an expanded universe that embodies our network based culture. They are products of design and media disciplines that are increasingly relying on animation as a universal language suited to multi-cultural interactions carried in digital ambients. In this sense animation becomes a discourse, the same way as Roland Barthes describes myth as a type of speech. With the objective of exploring the role of animation as a design tool, the proposed research intends to develop transmedia creative visual strategies using animation both as narrative and as an user interface.

Animation Techniques with Direction Control in Pull-down Menu for Improving Web User Interface (웹 사용자 인터페이스 향상을 위한 풀다운메뉴에서 방향제어가 가능한 애니메이션 기법)

  • Cho, Han-Soo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.525-536
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    • 2016
  • As obtaining information via the Internet has increased recently, the importance of web-based user interface more than ever is being emphasized. The purpose of this study is to improve the sliding structures of submenu in pull-down menu for improving web user interface. Animation techniques applied to the submenu of the pull-down menus that are being used at many web sites have very monotonous sliding structures. In order to solve these problems, a new sliding algorithm based on enlarging/reducing and moving animation techniques with direction control in pull-down menu is proposed. As a result, the proposed method can not only improve visual effects significantly but be also easily applied to the implementation of the web-based user interface in comparison with the previous pull-down menus. Finally, experiments on application of the proposed sliding algorithm to responsive image slider show that the proposed method can achieve good results. Further studies taking into account performance are needed to implement web-based interactive contents using the proposed method.

Development of a storyboard simulation system for an animator (효율적인 애니메이션 제작을 위한 스토리보드 시뮬레이터 설계 및 구현)

  • Yoo, Kil-Sang;Cho, Ok-Hue;Lee, Won-Hyung
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.02a
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    • pp.711-714
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    • 2009
  • Currently digital contents such as games, animation and video art are produced and distributed actively. And moreover by the development of related industries, a variety genre of media is in the process of planning and production. However general-purpose tools such as MAYA and Soft Image do not provide the artists in terms of a variety of unique functions. Thus in this study, we analyzed and developed interface technologies that can help effectively in terms of animation scenario writing, storyboard simulation, rendering and pre-production of story board, interface technology for preview. By our designed simulate planning, people who not professional in the field of animation, can produce and preview animation easily.

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