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The cartoon animation filter

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Steven M. Drucker,

Maneesh Agrawala,

Michael F. CohenAuthors Info & Claims

SIGGRAPH '06: ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers

Pages 1169 - 1173

https://doi.org/10.1145/1179352.1142010

Published: 01 July 2006 Publication History

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We present the "Cartoon Animation Filter", a simple filter that takes an arbitrary input motion signal and modulates it in such a way that the output motion is more "alive" or "animated". The filter adds a smoothed, inverted, and (sometimes) time shifted version of the second derivative (the acceleration) of the signal back into the original signal. Almost all parameters of the filter are automated. The user only needs to set the desired strength of the filter. The beauty of the animation filter lies in its simplicity and generality. We apply the filter to motions ranging from hand drawn trajectories, to simple animations within PowerPoint presentations, to motion captured DOF curves, to video segmentation results. Experimental results show that the filtered motion exhibits anticipation, follow-through, exaggeration and squash-and-stretch effects which are not present in the original input motion data.

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Index Terms

The cartoon animation filter
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
    2. Shape modeling
      1. Parametric curve and surface models
      2. Volumetric models
  2. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques
      1. Simulation by animation
2. Theory of computation
  1. Randomness, geometry and discrete structures

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