Stop frame animation system using reference drawings to position

Details Stop frame animation system using reference drawings to position Stop frame animation system using reference drawings to position

1991-09-23

1995-05-30

Razavi, Michael T.

Television

Stereoscopic

Picture signal generator

348207, H04N 5225

Patent

active

054206227

ABSTRACT:
A stop-frame animation apparatus and method includes making a series of drawings representing the desired poses for the a three-dimensional object to be animated. The drawings are sequentially viewed by a first television camera which relays the image of the drawings onto a television monitor. The monitor simultaneously displays an image of the three-dimensional object to be animated from a second television camera. A semi-transparent mirror is used to divert a portion of the light from the three-dimensional object that is directed toward a motion picture camera to the second television camera. The two television cameras are synchronized by a common sync generator so that the two videos are properly mixed and the corresponding two images are superimposed in a proper spatial relationship. One then uses the mixing of the two images displayed simultaneously on the single monitor to position the object so that it conforms to the drawing seen on the television monitor. The object is then photographed in its posed position on a stop frame basis by the motion picture camera.

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