and measure responses. A matrix of computerized characters was presented on a computer screen. Participants were asked to identify whether there were more red or more blue characters present. Correct responses were occasionally rewarded with an on-screen animated cartoon,

pixel. The basic idea, however, is the same: on-screen rendering is done by giving colour values to the pixels in the raster. For example, suppose you want to draw a circle: If the pixels are very small then what you see looks like a circle, but if you magnify to a level where you can see individual

User interfaces are often based on static presentations, a model ill suited for conveying change. Consequently, events on the screen frequently startle and confuse users. Cartoon animation, in contrast, is exceedingly successful at engaging its audience; even the most bizarre events are easily

different kinds of animation ranging from video-realistic image warps to 3D cartoon characters.

We present the ”Cartoon Animation Filter”, a simple filter that takes an arbitrary input motion signal and modulates it in such a way that the output motion is more ”alive ” or ”animated”. The filter adds a smoothed, inverted, and (sometimes) time shifted version of the second derivative (the

Traditional hand animation is in many cases superior to simulated motion for conveying information about character and events. Much of this superiority comes from an animator's ability to abstract motion and play to human perceptual effects. However, experienced animators are difficult to come

Abstract—We present a system for vectorizing 2D raster format cartoon animations. The output animations are visually flicker free, smaller in file size, and easy to edit. We identify decorative lines separately from colored regions. We use an accurate and semantically meaningful image decomposition

We describe a technique for generating cartoon style animations of smoke. Our method takes the output of a physically-based simulator and uses it to drive particles that are rendered using a variant of the depth differences technique (originally used for rendering trees). Specific issues we address

We present the "Cartoon Animation Filter", a simple filter that takes an arbitrary input motion signal and modulates it in such a way that the output motion is more "alive" or "animated". The filter adds a smoothed, inverted, and (sometimes) time shifted version

In this paper, we present a technique we call "cartoon capture and retargeting" which we use to track the motion from traditionally animated cartoons and retarget it onto 3-D models, 2-D drawings, and photographs. By using animation as the source, we can produce new animations