Research Project Outline
The project aims to renew a current Japanese animation production workflow by developing fundamental technologies necessary to realize automatic and efficient creation of various futuristic expressions. The fundamental technologies to be developed in the project are Directable-shader to manipulate creator's sense, Toon-simulator to create non-photo-realistic natural phenomenon effectively, Behave-sync to generate character motion synchronous with scenario or voice, and Reusable- corpus to recycle garbage contents. These technologies will be integrated into a new animation authoring tool, and used for realization of new Japanese animation and its evaluation.