Abstract
The recent development in the field of computer graphics (CG) technology has increased the demand and supply of three dimensional (3D) CG animation. However, it has been still problem that the making 3D CG animation needs a high cost, because many parts of the making process depends on hands-on skilled production. Therefore, a certain computer assisted making system is needed, by which a user not having high skill can generate an objective animation. In this paper, a computer assisted making system is proposed for the so-called exaggeration motion. The exaggeration is not real but effective expression promoting easy understanding for viewer. In the proposed system, some patterns of the so-called basic operations are defined a priori. Each basic operation includes a combination of exaggeration and physical motion. A user can change a level of combination if necessary. Then, an animation is generated by connecting a series of such modified basic operations. Because the proposed system has user-friendly operations and does not needs high skill in generation, the system contributes to increase users and to reduce cost in making.
