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Automatic expressive deformations for stylizing motion

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GRAPHITE '06: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia

Pages 57 - 63

https://doi.org/10.1145/1174429.1174438

Published: 29 November 2006 Publication History

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3D computer animation often struggles to compete with the flexibility and expressiveness commonly found in traditional animation, particularly when rendered non-photorealistically. We present an animation tool that takes skeleton-driven 3D computer animations and generates expressive deformations to the character geometry. The technique is based upon the cartooning and animation concepts of 'lines of action' and 'lines of motion' and automatically infuses computer animations with some of the expressiveness displayed by traditional animation. Motion and pose-based expressive deformations are generated from the motion data and the character geometry is warped along each limb's individual line of motion. The effect of this subtle, yet significant, warping is twofold: geometric inter-frame consistency is increased which helps create visually smoother animated sequences, and the warped geometry provides a novel solution to the problem of implied motion in non-photorealistic still images.

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Index Terms

Automatic expressive deformations for stylizing motion
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
    2. Shape modeling
2. Theory of computation
  1. Randomness, geometry and discrete structures
    1. Computational geometry

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GRAPHITE '06: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia

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ISBN:1595935649

DOI:10.1145/1174429

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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
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Norhaida Mohd Suaib
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

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