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Cartoon Character Rendering based on Shading Capture of Concept Drawing

원화의 음영 캡쳐 기반 카툰 캐릭터 렌더링

  • Received : 2011.03.10
  • Accepted : 2011.06.15
  • Published : 2011.08.31
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Abstract

Traditional rendering of cartoon character cannot revive the feeling of concept drawings properly. In this paper, we propose capture technology to get toon shading model from the concept drawings and with this technique, we provide a new novel system to render 3D cartoon character. Benefits of this system is to cartoonize the 3D character according to saliency to emphasize the form of 3D character and further support the sketch-based user interface for artists to edit shading by post-production. For this, we generate texture automatically by RGB color sorting algorithm to analyze color distribution and rates of selected region. In the cartoon rendering process, we use saliency as a measure to determine visual importance of each area of 3d mesh and we provide a novel cartoon rendering algorithm based on the saliency of 3D mesh. For the fine adjustments of shading style, we propose a user interface that allow the artists to freely add and delete shading to a 3D model. Finally, this paper shows the usefulness of the proposed system through user evaluation.

3차원 캐릭터 모델의 만화적 표현을 위하여 일반적으로 사용되고 있는 기존의 카툰렌더링 방법들은 아티스트가 직접 그린 원화의 표현을 그대로 살리는데 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 원화로부터 만화적인 음영모델을 캡쳐하는 기술을 제안하고 이를 이용하여 3차원 캐릭터 모델을 효과적으로 카툰 렌더링하는 새로운 시스템을 제공한다. 이 시스템의 특징은 음영을 캡쳐한 후에 캐릭터 모델의 만화적 특성을 부각시키기 위하여 음영을 이용하여 형태를 강조하는 알고리즘을 포함하며 아티스트가 포스트 프러덕션으로 음영을 편집할 수 있는 스케치 기반 인터페이스를 지원하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 선택된 영역의 색상 분포와 비율을 분석하는 RGB 색상 정렬 알고리즘을 이용하여 카툰 텍스처를 자동으로 생성하는 방법론을 제시한다. 또한 캐릭터의 형태적 특성을 강조하기 위하여 세일리언시 기반 카툰 렌더링 알고리즘을 제안하며, 음영을 지역적으로 편집하는 스케치 인터페이스를 제공한다. 마지막으로 사용자 평가를 통하여 제안하는 시스템의 유용성을 입증한다.

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