Animation made easy
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 10:34 pm
And now, totally off-topic.... If the guy downstairs doesn't finally learn to play more than the first two bars of Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water" I'm calling the police!!NewScientist.com wrote:DRAWINGS sketched on the screen of a Tablet PC can be animated in seconds thanks to new software. All it takes is the flourish of a stylus.
The software, called K-Sketch, allows a relatively unskilled user to sketch out a scene on the PC's screen, select the parts they want to animate, and then simply drag these objects over the display to make them sweep, loop or spin in whatever way they want. The computer records these movements so that it can play them back as an animation.
K-Sketch was created by Richard Davis at the University of California, Berkeley, and James Landay at the University of Washington, Seattle, and was demonstrated at the User Interface Software and Technology conference in Seattle last week.
