A Study of an Interactive System for 2.5D Animation Generation

Abstract

We propose the system to generate 2.5D animation with an user interface. 2.5D animation is attracting attention as a method of generating 3D-like animation by animating 2D character images. However, it takes a lot of time to edit input data for generating 2.5D animation. In our system, the user inputs some whole body images and then, adjusts joint positions by GUI to generate animation from existing motion data resources. Also we aim to reduce the cost for editing. For example, we apply the template matching to search joint positions, and so on. Our system generates better quality results than results of the previous method of 2.5D animation generation while reducing the costs in 2.5D animation generation through image processing and user interface.