“Speedlines: depicting motion in motionless pictures”

  • ©Maic Masuch, Stefan Schlechtweg, and Ronny Schulz

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    Production & Animation

Title:

    Speedlines: depicting motion in motionless pictures

Session/Category Title:   Motion Hacks


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Abstract:


    Adapting traditional illustrative techniques from comics to develop an alternative method of depicting movement of objects in computergenerated images using speedlines, arrows, and contour repetitions.

References:


    1. M. Potmesil, I. Chakravarty. Modeling Motion Blur in Computer Generated Images, In SIGGRAPH 83, pp. 389-399.
    2. S. McCloud. Understanding Comics – The Invisible Art, Harper Collins, New York, 1993.
    3. F.Thomas, O. Johnston.The Illusion of Life: Disney animation, Hyperion, 1981.
    4. T. Strothotte et al. Computational Visualization: Graphics, Abstraction, and Interactivity, Springer, 1998.


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