Title
Dragimation: direct manipulation keyframe timing for performance-based animation
Abstract
Getting the timing and dynamics right is key to creating believable and interesting animations. However, using traditional keyframe animation techniques, timing is a tedious and abstract process. In this paper we present Dragimation, a novel technique for interactive performative timing of keyframe animations. It is inspired by direct manipulation techniques for video navigation that leverage the natural sense of timing all of us possess. We conducted a user study with 27 participants including professional animators as well as novices, in which we compared our approach to two other interactive timing techniques, timeline scrubbing and sketch-based timing. Dragimation is comparable regarding objective error measurements to the sketch-based approach and significantly better than scrubbing and is the overall preferred technique by our test users.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
Graphics Interface 2012
novel technique,traditional keyframe animation technique,direct manipulation technique,overall preferred technique,performance-based animation,keyframe animation,sketch-based timing,direct manipulation keyframe timing,interactive performative timing,timeline scrubbing,interactive timing technique,sketch-based approach
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer science,Video navigation,Timeline,Human–computer interaction,Animation,Multimedia,Animation techniques,Abstract process,Sketch
Conference
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.62
21
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Walther-Franks1689.91
Marc Herrlich210223.59
Thorsten Karrer338626.19
Moritz Wittenhagen41116.81
Roland Schröder-Kroll5152.38
Rainer Malaka649392.68
Jan Borchers71659154.20