Making User's Sketch into a Motion Picture for Visual Storytelling on the Web

Abstract

This paper introduces a cheap engineering solution of authoring and presenting user's own story in the form of animation on the world wide web. Most of existing story-making tools allow users to choose characters from a given database because model building task is time-consuming and requires some level of expertise. Comparatively, we suggest an easy 'threedimensionalizing' method by incorporating user's own 2D sketches of characters, scenes and text to the story and by making them finally be presented in the form of 3D-like animation semi-automatically on the web. © Springer-Verlag 2004.