Microsoft developed a technology that can autocomplete animation by predicting the next movement of hand-drawn illustrations

With collaborative research by Microsoft · The University of Tokyo · Hong Kong University, a technique was developed to predict the movement of the illustration drawn next from one hand-drawn illustration and to auto-complete the animation.

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First of all, one fish was drawn on the screen.


The fish changes to red ... ...


When I pull the center line of the fish's body to the next position, the fish body was automatically drawn according to the line.


Furthermore, as you increase the number of lines ...


The shape of the duplicated fish changes according to the increased line.


In addition to predicting the "next movement" of the drawing in real time, the system notes that the actually drawn line is not reflected as it is but it is to make improvements.


Therefore, the drawer can simply indicate the shape of the fish and OK.


When you trace the fish over the red line with a cursor and the outline is confirmed ... ...


Next time the system will automatically show the next movement.


If you correct this crisply OK. Changing the line drawing position will automatically fix the position where the fish will be drawn.


Repeat this process several times to grasp the shape of the fish and the position where it was drawn, the system generates natural and smooth fish movements, and animation can easily be done without drawing dozens or hundreds of pictures You can make it.


Furthermore, when you draw scales on fish ... ...


The system automatically recognizes that "The right half of the fish will be drawn with scales" just by drawing a few pieces and will automatically draw the scale.


As a result, time-consuming tasks can be completed in a moment.


Once I drew one illustration ... ...


After that, animation is completed by moving and adjusting the first illustration.


So you can also move stick figures and ornamental plants cheerfully like this.


Although it is also possible to manually deform using dedicated software, it takes time and labor. By using the technology of autocomplete developed by Microsoft this time, animation can be efficiently created while leaving hand-drawn goodness.