Microsoft's Autocomplete for 2d hand drawn animations Siggraph Asia 2015

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http://www.fastcodesign.com/3052463/microsoft-research-debuts-autocomplete-for-animation-and-its-incredible?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=motionographer

 

https://youtu.be/w0YmWiy6sA4

 

Unveiled at the Siggraph Asia conference, it doesn’t appear that a formal white paper has been released, but there is this illustrative video of the tech. You can watch as someone draws a fish once, then, upon drawing a single line for the next frame, the software suggests a skeleton to trace. It’s responsive, too, shaping its wireframes around your sketches in real time. And it also features a few other neat tricks, like if you begin filling in a pattern, it can sense that and suggest more of the pattern—or if you add color or detail to the first frame of your animation, it can duplicate it across the entire work.