A Scrapbook for Character's Facial Expression based on a Cut Analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a scrapbook to support drawing of facial expressions. Facial expressions of cartoon characters are composed of the combination of eyebrows, eyes, mouth and other expression components such as tears and sweat. We have collected 763 pieces from existing cartoon animations and classified them into 6 eyebrow patterns, 9 eye patterns and 8 mouth patterns by their shape. Our experiment results show that the users can increase the variation of facial expressions by using our scrapbook.