Title :
The design of expressive cartoons for the Web-Tinky
Author :
Paradiso, Aldo ; Nack, Frank ; Fries, Georg ; Schuhmacher, Karlheinz
Author_Institution :
German Nat. Res. Center for Inf. Technol. Inst., Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract :
Tinky is a design environment which allows the generation, modification and animation of 3D cartoon-faces, where the face model is not based on a set of independent parameters that control specific abstract muscle emulations but is directed by a set of objects representing the elements of the face. In order to provide an easy to use authoring system producing standardised expressions and animations of Web oriented cartoons, we adopt an object oriented approach for cartoon design and combine it with the authoring qualities of VRML and the standardised set of facial and body animation parameters defined by MPEG-4 SNHC
Keywords :
authoring systems; computer animation; information resources; object-oriented methods; user interfaces; virtual reality languages; 3D cartoon faces; MPEG-4 SNHC; Tinky; VRML; authoring system; body animation; computer animation; design environment; expressive cartoon design; facial animation; object oriented approach; virtual reality; Authoring systems; Electronic mail; Facial animation; Humans; Information technology; MPEG 4 Standard; Muscles; Object oriented modeling; Speech; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Florence
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0253-9
DOI :
10.1109/MMCS.1999.779216
