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Keyframe-based Tracking for Rotoscoping & Animation. Aseem Agarwala 1 , Aaron Hertzmann 2 , Steve Seitz 1 , David Salesin 1,3. 1 University of Washington. 2 University of Toronto. 3 Microsoft Research. Animator Max Fleischer, patent application, 1917. Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, 1959.
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Keyframe-based Tracking for Rotoscoping & Animation Aseem Agarwala1, Aaron Hertzmann2, Steve Seitz1, David Salesin1,3 1University of Washington 2University of Toronto 3Microsoft Research
Waking Life, 2001 Roughly 250 hours of work per minute of animation
Rotoscoping for visual effects Commercial tools such as Commotion, Shake, gFx Pro, etc…
Current state of rotoscoping • Can consume up to 20% of human time required for a special effects shot • Keyframing + linear interpolation • Computer vision tracking techniques rarely used • Not robust • Not designed for artist control
Goal • Dramatically reduce time and effort of rotoscoping Approach • Interactive rotoscoping system • Uses tracking to accelerate when possible • Leaves artist in full control • Help artist to create rotoscoped animation quickly and easily
Visualizing effort Computer- interpolated User- specified
Creating animation Goals • Artist can draw rich appearances • Strokes should follow motion of roto-curves
Conclusion • Rotoscoping is important, but time-consuming and tedious • Rotoscopers rarely use tracking • Our approach combines vision with user interaction • Use tracking to accelerate • Efficiently support user-editing • Thanks to Alex Hsu, Siobhan Quinn, Lorie Loeb, Matt Silverman, David Simons, Industrial Light & Magic, Amira Fahoum, Ben Stewart