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

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

276

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0253-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1999.779216

Filename

779216