With the rapid development of cartoon industry, various studies on two-dimensional (2D)
cartoon have been proposed for different application scenarios, such as quality assessment …

An artist faces two challenges when creating a 2D animated character to mimic a specific
human performance. First, the artist must design and draw a collection of artwork depicting …

We introduce an interactive tool to intuitively make inbetween charts for cutout character
movements (ie, transitioning from one image to another), inspired by cartoon animators' …

The emergence of commercial tools for real-time performance-based 2D animation has
enabled 2D characters to appear on live broadcasts and streaming platforms. A key …

This paper describes a deep learning-based method for long-term video interpolation that
generates intermediate frames between two music performance videos of a person playing …

Two-and-a-half-dimensional (2.5-D) cartoon models are popular methods used for
simulating three-dimensional (3-D) movements, such as out-of-plane rotation, from two …

Animations can come to life when they are synchronized with relevant sounds. Yet,
synchronizing animations to audio requires tedious key-framing or programming, which is …

Disclosed systems and methods predict visemes from an audio sequence. A viseme-
generation application accesses a first set of training data that includes a first audio …

2.5 D cartoon models are methods to simulate three-dimensional (3D)-like movements, such
as out-of-plane rotation, from two-dimensional (2D) shapes in different views. However …

This PhD research is an exegesis accompanying the virtual reality (VR) short film Gala. Gala
is an embodied virtual reality (EVR) film constructed using a hybrid method of film, games …