2017/12/18 by Ignacio Garcia‐Dorado, Pascal Getreuer, Garcia-Dorado, Ignacio +9
Arts and Humanities · Engineering · Health Professions · #Comics and Graphic Narratives #Digital Storytelling and Education #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Graphics (cs.GR) #Human Motion and Animation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1712.06654
openalex publication_date 2017/12/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present a system to convert any set of images (e.g., a video clip or a photo album) into a storyboard. We aim to create multiple pleasing graphic representations of the content at interactive rates, so the user can explore and find the storyboard (images, layout, and stylization) that best suits their needs and taste. The main challenges of this work are: selecting the content images, placing them into panels, and applying a stylization. For the latter, we propose an interactive design tool to create new stylizations using a wide range of filter blocks. This approach unleashes the creativity by allowing the user to tune, modify, and intuitively design new sequences of filters. In parallel to this manual design, we propose a novel procedural approach that automatically assembles sequences of filters for innovative results. We aim to keep the algorithm complexity as low as possible such that it can run interactively on a mobile device. Our results include examples of styles designed using both our interactive and procedural tools, as well as their final composition into interesting and appealing storyboards.