SketchAnim: Real-time sketch animation transfer from videos

Gaurav Rai, Shreyas Gupta, Ojaswa Sharma

Abstract

Sketches serve as a great medium for visual communication and animating sketches can add dynamism and interactivity. Traditional tools for animating sketches require a unique set of skills to bring hand-drawn characters to life. Artists often refer to some existing videos and try to replicate a similar video motion to the sketch character when attempting to animate it. However, this process is often time-consuming, and an inaccurate replication of motion may make the character's movement look non-fluent or unnatural, especially for those with little to no experience in animation.

How does it work?


Workflow

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Overview of our proposed framework for sketch animation.

Comparison


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We compare our method with FOMM and AnimationDrawing baselines: (FOMM, AnimationDrawing). We can see that our method generates promising results compared to state-of-the-art methods.