title: A video-based system for hand-driven stop-motion animation.
abstract: Stop-motion is a well-established animation technique but is often laborious and requires craft skills. A new video-based system can animate the vast majority of everyday objects in stop-motion style, more flexibly and intuitively. Animators can perform and capture motions continuously instead of breaking them into increments and shooting one still picture per increment. More important, the system permits direct hand manipulation without resorting to rigs, achieving more natural object control for beginners. The system's key component is two-phase keyframe-based capturing and processing, assisted by computer vision techniques. With this system, even amateurs can generate high-quality stop-motion animations.
authors.forename: Xiaoguang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Hongbo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Hanlin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Ligang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jue
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D009038:Motion; D014741:Video Recording / Q000379:methods*