Animatope: A Manga-Styled Animation Expression Toolkit
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2003
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Eurographics Association
Abstract
Manga, a Japanese comic style, is becoming widely accepted within comic readers worldwide. In Manga, mimetic symbols and onomatopoeia symbols are heavily used to express emotions and various movements in a comic frame. In this paper, we present a toolkit named "Animatope", to emulate Manga-style symbols in a non-photorealisitc animation. Animatope transfers the Manga-sytle symbol grammar to 3D animation. We extend Manga symbols to Meta-symbols, or animated symbols, to enrich the emotional expressions and subtle behaviors. Meta-symbols are categorized into several classifications in Animatope Toolkit. Meta-symbols are controlled with basic parameters, shape of emitters, and motion handles.
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@inproceedings{:10.2312/egs.20031070,
booktitle = {Eurographics 2003 - Short Presentations},
editor = {},
title = {{Animatope: A Manga-Styled Animation Expression Toolkit}},
author = {Tohda, Asuka and Hasegawa, Sho and Inakage, Masa},
year = {2003},
publisher = {Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1017-4656},
ISBN = {},
DOI = {/10.2312/egs.20031070}
}