Animation Collage
Abstract
We propose a method to automatically transform mesh animations into animation collages, i.e. moving assemblies
of shape primitives from a database given by an artist. An animation collage is a complete reassembly of the
original animation in a new abstract visual style that imitates the spatio-temporal shape and deformation of the
input. Our algorithm automatically decomposes input animations into plausible approximately rigid segments and
fits to each segment one shape from the database by means of a spatio-temporal matching procedure. The collage is
then animated in compliance with the original’s shape and motion. Apart from proposing solutions to a number of
spatio-temporal alignment problems, this work is an interesting add-on to the graphics artist’s toolbox with many
applications in arts, non-photorealistic rendering, and animated movie productions. We exemplify the beauty of
animation collages by showing results created with our software prototype.
Paper
- C. Theobalt, C. Roessl, E. de Aguiar, H.-P. Seidel, Animation Collage, to appear ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation 2007, San Diego, USA. [PDF]
Video
- Accompanying video in DIVX format [AVI]
