Color Scheme Simulation for Character Groups

Abstract

Most of characters in a comic and an animation constitute a group that is composed of a number of people. The color schemes of characters who belong to the same group should be consistent or well-dispersed. However, it is not easy to keep consistency during manual color setting. In this paper, we propose a color scheme simulation system for character groups. We extracted color information from 26 works of TV animation and stored them in group units. The user first inputs line drawings of characters and specifies the area of hair, face, cloth and so on. Then color setting will be applied to all the characters at once by simply choosing one from stored groups. Our system reduces the cost for repainting and enables quick color setting.