I saw this interesting video that autocomplete hand-drawn animations and thought this may interest the engineers of the Harmony software to include in their upgrading.
Not sure if or how you may go about it but this is amazing with regards the ease and predictablity. It is almost like the morphing tool but in steroids. LOL.
Fantastic time saver when working on tedious jobs. This should be implemented in Storyboard Pro as well.
See link and info below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0YmWiy6sA4
This prototype system is mainly designed for novice users, with goals like reducing manual labor and maintaining smoothness across frames while preserving the natural drawing practice.
See the project page at http://www.liyiwei.org/papers/workflo…, and another earlier work about autocomplete (single-frame) painting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7MEA…
Abstract:
Hand-drawn animation is a major art form and communication medium, but can be challenging to produce. We present a system to help people create frame-by-frame animations through manual sketches. We design our interface to be minimalistic: it contains only a canvas and a few controls. When users draw on the canvas, our system silently analyzes all past sketches and predicts what might be drawn in the future across spatial locations and temporal frames. The interface also offers suggestions to beautify existing drawings. Our system can reduce manual workload and improve output quality without compromising natural drawing flow and control: users can accept, ignore, or modify such predictions visualized on the canvas by simple gestures. Our key idea is to extend the local similarity method in [Xing et al. 2014], which handles only low-level spatial repetitions such as hatches within a single frame, to a global similarity that can capture high-level structures across multiple frames such as dynamic objects. We evaluate our system through a preliminary user study and confirm that it can enhance both users’ objective performance and subjective satisfaction.
Autocomplete Painting Repetitions
See Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7MEAw46Ojo
Regards…
Don Evelyn