• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 2024

With the rapid development of 3D animation, MetaHuman is widely used in film production, game development and VR production as a virtual human creation platform.In the animation production of virtual humans, motion capture is usually used.Since different motion capture solutions use different skeletons for motion recording, when the skeleton level of recorded animation data is different from that of MetaHuman, the animation data recorded by motion capture cannot be directly used on MetaHuman. This requires Reorient the skeletons of both.This study explores an efficient skeleton reorientation method that can maintain the accuracy of animation data by reducing the number of bone chains.In the experiment, three skeleton structures, Rokoko, Mixamo and Xsens were used for efficient redirection experiments, to compare and analyze the adaptability of different skeleton structures to the MetaHuman skeleton, and to explore which skeleton structure has the highest compatibility with the MetaHuman skeleton.This research provides an efficient skeleton reorientation idea for the production team of 3D animated video content, which can significantly reduce time costs and improve work efficiency.

• Journal of Science of Art and Design
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• v.11
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• pp.37-49
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• 2007

TV animation has come a long way to this date since popular animation programs were aired on TV, such as 'Run Little Tiger', 'Run Honey', 'Hurry-Scurry Yeongsimi', beginning with 'Wandering Magpie' on KBS in 1978. However, problematic production process has resulted in the degradation of quality. Consequently, the dwindling viewing rate forced animation advertisers to leave, and the animation production shrank. Under those unfavorable circumstances, the government started to heed messages transmitted from animation producers and went ahead with the 'animation broadcasting quota' in a bid to help revitalize Korean animation industry. This study aimed to identify problems and set the direction for the animation industry by analyzing its fundamental and structural problems.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.26
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• pp.57-78
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• 2012

This article deals with the change of disney feature-length drawn animation since using digital technology. The spread of digital technology in the territory of traditional animation brought a massive transformation. Analogue production system for disney drawn animation was gradually replaced by digital production system and in the process, the overall quality of disney drawn animation was improved, although drawn animation industry had declined considerably due to the success of 3D computer animation. Currently, disney drawn animations not only just adopt digital technology but also use it for expressing the distinctive sensibility of the drawn animation.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.33
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• pp.173-202
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• 2013

This research focuses on the part of animation production pipeline. Among the four stages in the process (development, pre-production, main production, and post-production), this research explores theoretical features of the development stage. As the development stage is not well-known and theorized in Korea, this research provides roles and values of the development stage. The development stages is very important because two works have to be proceeded in this stage. First, the story idea for making animation should be decided. Ideas have to be developed into definite synopsis. And, the bible to pitch for investors are prepared on the basis of the story. Secondly, the basic production plan has to be initiated. This production plan includes the financial budget, the production schedule, and the production team. These three elements are so crucial that the producer (or executive producer) should take into consideration from the early stage of production.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.155-160
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• 2022

In recent years, Unreal Engine has been increasingly included in the animation process produced in the studio. In this case, there will be more than one of main software, and it is very important to accurately transfer data between the software and Unreal Engine. In animation data, not only the animation data of the character but also the animation data of objects interacting with the character must be individually produced and transferred. Most of the objects that interact with the character have a condition of constraints with the part of character. In this paper, I tried to stipulate the production process for extracting animation data of constrained objects, and to analyze why users experience difficulties due to the complexity of the regulations in the process of executing them. And based on the flowchart prescribed for user convenience, I created a program using a Python script to prove the user's convenience. Finally, by comparing the results generated according to the manual flowchart with the results generated through the script command, it was found that the data were consistent.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.160-169
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• 2007

Main problem in the domestic motion capture type production is that motion data are used even in the case when the human sensibility is needed. In other words it fails to give human images to the work, and production method only use motion capture data unconditionally and impetuously. Even though motion capture is effective and are various and applicable to various areas, it would cause enormous lose of capital and manual labor if these problems are not solved. In the present study, we compare motion capture with key animation production and analyze the merits and short comings of them. Also, we analyze them through the actual production and present the efficient method of key animation production when the expensive motion capturing devices are not available.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.399-406
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• 2016

Drawn-on-film animation technique is one that neither is actively used nor receives attention in any video content area. This paper means to strengthen animation genre's future direction and aesthetic aspect by seeking to newly discover previous experimental techniques through this paper. Taking into account the details of paper, it was intended to systematize and introduce results and experiential information obtained by researcher from applying drawn-on-film animation techniques in actual educational arena and utilizing these in learning and newly created techniques and the like through this. Production processes were comparatively demonstrated after suggesting an alternative digital production system in this process. And ultimately, a study and proposal was made so as to be helpful in developing the techniques of animation genre.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.256-266
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• 2010

This study is to suggest the solutions about the problems of maximum requirements of animation broadcasting. About 10 experts of broadcasting, animation production, animation related professor and researcher and government take part in this study and discuss problems and their solutions of maximum requirements of animation broadcasting from January to march in 2009. This policy introduced 4 years ago had the positive effects such as the increase of animation production and the number of animation production company, but also the negative effects such as continuous decrease of rating in terrestrial broadcasting and transferring to low rating time slot of animation, downward equalization of animation and changing to minimum securement method. This study suggested the solutions as follows; first the enlargement of this policy to cable and satellite broadcasting, second introducing incentive policy in prime time, third the subsidy of media oriented investment. Finally this study stressed that this solutions should not be compulsory order but voluntary system.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.40
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• pp.139-155
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• 2015

Animation is completed in accordance with the original planning of visual direction in the process of post-production. Especially, a variety of visualization skills to meet the planning idea are directed in editing and compositing processes such as rendering and shading in the production of 3D animation. Therefore, the studies how to implement these visual effects have been conducted since the emergence of the animation. The rendering method which appears in the recent animations so often is the effect of 2D animation style although it is applied by 3D technique. 3D animation can be classified as two types including photo realistic and non-photo realistic renderings. The former is to render the images realistically while the latter is to highlight the formative effect with analogue style free from the realism of the photographs. Visual effect of 2D animation is non-realistic, that is, non-photo realistic rendering. The animations produced by this method have the depth of 3D animation expression in terms of space and animating, and can direct the viewer-friendly analogue style visuals, which are widely used as a post-production effect. Hence in this study, we selected a short animation, 'Paperman,' one of Disney's animations, produced by cartoon rendering method which belongs to the class of non-photo rendering technique in 3D graphics, as our subject. We analyzed their techniques and visual effects of the scenes expressed by cartoon rendering method so as to understand whether they meet the original direction idea with the composition work. In addition, we expect further developments of post-production methods, exceeding the limit of graphic expression in alignment with the trend that has become more various in the types and genres of non-photo rendering.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.52-59
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• 2013

Recently, the importance of the efficient production pipeline design has been increased for 3D animation, which becomes more delicate. In this paper, we propose 3D animation character development pipeline using 3D printing technology. We introduce 3D printing procedure into each step of the classical 3D animation and character development pipeline to incorporate the feed-back from the designer immediately. Specially, during the production step, we can find the design errors and minimize the period of production by using 3D printing of approximate shape of designed character. Using proposed method, eight DreaMegg characters were developed and their quality was very high with respect to 3D virtual graphics and real product. Using our method, high-quality 3D animation character can be developed with the minimized time and cost for development by reflecting the feed-back into production line from designers and researchers immediately.