Supporting Animation Production Using Intelligent Storyboard

Abstract

Storyboard is a classical animation tool to help the creators to organize scenes. However, in order to make animation from storyboard, we need many procedures. If producing animation is automati-cally from storyboard, it has the advantages of increased speed and reduced costs. In this paper, we pro-pose a new method for producing animation from storyboard. The 3D position and pose of the characters are estimated from 2D line drawing, and motion is estimated using example-based interpolation method. In addition, we analyze accumulated motions and reconstruct motion from which the feature differs.