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Since the arrival of computer-generated animated movies, it's easy to forget Mobile animation. Until the dawn of CGI movies with releases like "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life," the vast majority of animated films and shows were cell animated. This is the process in which every individual frame in the piece is drawn by hand. It is still, historically, the most popular of all forms of animation. The process itself is as intriguing as the work it produced
The earliest Mobile-animated films date to the early 1900s. One of the first was by J. Stuart Blackton, with a piece called "Humorous phases of funny faces." His process was to draw funny faces on a blackboard, film one, erase it, draw another, and film that. While not quite the same, it can be considered an early form of cell animation.
Walt Disney, one of the most famous animators in the world, started making films with his brother Roy in the 1920s. As the medium gained exposure, ensuing decades featured the release of popular titles including "Fantasia," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Dumbo."
In 1995, Pixar and Disney Studios released "Toy Story," which was the first fully computer-generated animated film. After its massive success, the industry moved away from hand-drawn cell animation and into the realm of computer animation. Animation houses dedicated to traditional animation have dwindled in number.Remember the end of Michael Jackson's 1991 music video "Black or White" in which a series of different faces morph into one other? Now you can create the same effect at home with your own digital photo collection.
New software pulls all the photos of a specific person from a collection of tagged photos, analyses them for similarity of expression and head position, and links them in an animated movie. The final product can turn a smile into a frown or show how a person has aged over time.
"We can easily summarise a person's life in photos," says Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington who led the study. One example shows a girl growing from birth to age 20 in 2 minutes.
For traditional morphing used in Jackson's music video, each photo needs to be carefully marked to ensure a smooth conversion. A mouth pixel on the first photo must remain a mouth pixel in the second. And the computer creates the moving transitions from one photo to the next.
This new software uses existing photos to transition between the two images. It chooses each photo in the animated sequence based on its similarity to the previous image, while moving incrementally toward the person's head position and facial expression in the final photo. With collection of several hundred or thousand images, there are to be plenty of shots that capture a range of expressions.
Kemelmacher-Shlizerman will present this work in a paper at SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques), a conference in Vancouver, Canada, next week.
A version of this software is now available in Picasa, a photo-hosting site run by Google, as a feature called Face Movie. This application is simplified to speed playback and doesn't display the photos chronologically.
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Since the arrival of computer-generated animated movies, it's easy to forget Mobile animation. Until the dawn of CGI movies with releases like "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life," the vast majority of animated films and shows were cell animated. This is the process in which every individual frame in the piece is drawn by hand. It is still, historically, the most popular of all forms of animation. The process itself is as intriguing as the work it produced
The earliest Mobile-animated films date to the early 1900s. One of the first was by J. Stuart Blackton, with a piece called "Humorous phases of funny faces." His process was to draw funny faces on a blackboard, film one, erase it, draw another, and film that. While not quite the same, it can be considered an early form of cell animation.
Walt Disney, one of the most famous animators in the world, started making films with his brother Roy in the 1920s. As the medium gained exposure, ensuing decades featured the release of popular titles including "Fantasia," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Dumbo."
In 1995, Pixar and Disney Studios released "Toy Story," which was the first fully computer-generated animated film. After its massive success, the industry moved away from hand-drawn cell animation and into the realm of computer animation. Animation houses dedicated to traditional animation have dwindled in number.Remember the end of Michael Jackson's 1991 music video "Black or White" in which a series of different faces morph into one other? Now you can create the same effect at home with your own digital photo collection.
New software pulls all the photos of a specific person from a collection of tagged photos, analyses them for similarity of expression and head position, and links them in an animated movie. The final product can turn a smile into a frown or show how a person has aged over time.
"We can easily summarise a person's life in photos," says Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington who led the study. One example shows a girl growing from birth to age 20 in 2 minutes.
For traditional morphing used in Jackson's music video, each photo needs to be carefully marked to ensure a smooth conversion. A mouth pixel on the first photo must remain a mouth pixel in the second. And the computer creates the moving transitions from one photo to the next.
This new software uses existing photos to transition between the two images. It chooses each photo in the animated sequence based on its similarity to the previous image, while moving incrementally toward the person's head position and facial expression in the final photo. With collection of several hundred or thousand images, there are to be plenty of shots that capture a range of expressions.
Kemelmacher-Shlizerman will present this work in a paper at SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques), a conference in Vancouver, Canada, next week.
A version of this software is now available in Picasa, a photo-hosting site run by Google, as a feature called Face Movie. This application is simplified to speed playback and doesn't display the photos chronologically.
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