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We demonstrate the potential of our method on various complex rigid body animations which are created with an expressive hand-drawn look using notably less manual interventions as compared to traditional techniques. To achieve these goals, we combine parametric deformation synthesis that generalizes and reuses hand-drawn exemplars, with non-parametric techniques that enhance the hand-drawn appearance of the synthesized sequence. The stylization process may also be performed in an off-line batch process from a small set of drawn sequences. Starting with an existing target animation (e.g., produced by a physical simulation engine) an artist interactively draws over a sparse set of frames, and the desired appearance and motion stylization is automatically propagated to the rest of the sequence. Our approach can handle multiple rigid objects following complex physically-simulated trajectories with collisions, while retaining a unique artistic style directly specified by the user. We present a novel approach to facilitate the creation of stylized 2D rigid body animations. Video summary and supplementary results at GitHub link:

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Extensive human judgement experiments show that our results are preferred over several competing methods, including those that only support offline (non-live) processing. We also describe a data augmentation procedure that allows us to achieve good results with a very small amount of hand-animated training data (13-20 minutes). Our contributions include specific design decisions for our feature definition and LSTM configuration that provide a small but useful amount of lookahead to produce accurate lip sync. Our system takes streaming audio as input and produces viseme sequences with less than 200ms of latency (including processing time). In this work, we present a deep learning based interactive system that automatically generates live lip sync for layered 2D characters using a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) model. A key requirement for live animation is fast and accurate lip sync that allows characters to respond naturally to other actors or the audience through the voice of a human performer. The emergence of commercial tools for real-time performance-based 2D animation has enabled 2D characters to appear on live broadcasts and streaming platforms. From the user evaluations, we confirm that our algorithms is able to successfully generate more natural audio-mouth synchronizations in limited-style lip-synched animations than previous algorithms. We visually evaluate our results both absolutely and relatively by comparing them with those of previous works. In addition, users can implement our system as a plug-in of a standard tool for creating animations (Adobe After Effects) and can easily arrange character lip motion to suit their own style. Because our approach follows the standard workflow employed in cartoon animation production, our system can successfully assist animators.

Our system can be applied for creating not only the original animations but also dubbed ones independently of languages. In this paper, we propose a method that automatically creates high-quality limited-style lip-synched animations using audio tracks.

This is essential because viewers are very sensitive to audio-lip discrepancies. Furthermore, proper synchronization between the voice-actor’s voice and the character’s mouth and lip motion requires well-experienced animators. However, producing high quality animations using this limited style is time-consuming and costly for animators. Owing to its expressive style, it has been enjoyed around the world. Special thanks to Nate Otto for the fantastic artwork.Limited animation is one of the traditional techniques for producing cartoon animations.

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So, if you have Character Animator (shows up when you update Adobe After Effects) Download the Happy Camper puppet for yourself!īecause the software is still in public preview there are still a few bugs and workarounds you may need to overcome to get the puppet to work properly, so if you need any help feel free to get at me on Twitter and if you make any fun videos using Happy Camper, show us! The puppet comes with all the mouth-shapes you would need to have a nice lip sync, it blinks when you blink, looks surprised when you open your mouth really wide and has mousetrack points on each hand and foot. The software, which is still in public preview, comes with a bunch of ready-made puppets to play with, but I figured our own Happy Camper needed a proper treatment. It’s a pretty wild program that uses your webcam to track facial movements, your computer’s microphone to do lip sync, mouse inputs for extra animations, a fair amount of physics to make things dangle and sway, applies those to a puppet, and spits it all out into After Effects. I’ve been messing around with Adobe’s new Character Animator software recently.