A sketch-based system for hand-drawn anime-style hair animations

Tweaking of control parameters

Abstract

Hair animation in Japanese hand-drawn animation plays an important role in expressing dynamism and creating impressive scenes. However, it requires many parameters to be set for this kind of motion in 3DCG and makes it a difficult to achieve the ideal motion entirely by hand. We propose a support system for hand-drawn anime-style hair animations. This system takes as input sketches to illustrate how to shake and control parameters to adjust the motion, which improves the efficiency while maintaining expression.