Computer Assisted Animation
Computerized Cel painting
- Digitize the line drawing, color it using seed fill
- Eliminates cel painters (low rung on totem pole)
- Widely used in production (little hand painting any more)
- e.g. Lion King
Cartoon Inbetweening
- Automatically interpolate between two drawings to produce inbetweens (a la morphing)
- Hard to get right
- inbetweens often don’t look natural
- what are the parameters to interpolate? Not clear...
- not used very often