KR20050078100A - Methods for manufacturing moving cartoon and recording medium thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, a cartoon production method includes: scanning a print cartoon for each page to obtain an original image; Cutting the image for each cut from the obtained original image and storing the original image for each cut in separate layers; Cutting and acquiring a moving image of the cut-out original image from the original image of each cut separated from the original image in different layers; And selecting a background image from the obtained moving images, making a motion by superimposing the moving images according to the movement order of the object, and changing the moving image file into a moving image file.

Description

Method for manufacturing moving picture cartoon and recording medium containing program according to the method {Methods for manufacturing moving cartoon and recording medium}

The present invention relates to a method for producing a moving picture cartoon from a print cartoon, and more particularly, a method for producing a moving picture cartoon from a print cartoon in which a still image is drawn using an animation editing program mounted on a computer, and this method. It relates to a recording medium containing a program according to.

General video cartoon production techniques can be divided into paper animation and cell animation. The paper animation method is the oldest of the animation production techniques. The artist directly draws the movement of the object over time on each piece of paper, and photographs each piece of paper on which the object is drawn one frame. To say how to make a film.

In addition, the cell animation method is a method that is widely used in recent years, a method of making a video by the operator by taking a picture of the background, the object and other screens on the cell film, and by combining the drawn cell film by one frame.

On the other hand, in order to produce a published cartoon as an animation, paper animation techniques or cell animation techniques have been used so far.

However, according to the conventional video cartoon production method, the following problem (s) occurs.

In other words, the paper animation production method has a problem that the work efficiency is reduced because the operator must draw a picture directly on all paper. In general, a 30-minute animated film takes over a year or more. In addition, there is a problem that a lot of manpower should be put in order to produce one animation movie.

In addition, the cell animation production method is more efficient than the paper animation production method because it can be produced with fewer pictures than the paper animation production method. However, the movement of the background or the object must be drawn manually whenever the movement occurs. do. For example, in the case of sports cartoons, there are many movements of objects and wallpapers in the stadium. In general, the movement of an object is delicately expressed, but a simple description is often performed for a background image that changes every moment. Under normal conditions, the camera angle changes continuously due to the nature of the sporting event, and not only the object but also the background is dynamically changed. To do this, the producer must draw a picture of the constantly changing background, so the animation film is produced within the same time. This requires a lot of workers. Therefore, a lot of manpower should be put into making one animation by the cell animation production method, and an expensive cell film should be used, thus increasing the production cost and increasing the economic burden on the producer.

In addition, in producing an animation, there are many cases of additional background screen movements in addition to the movement of the subject of the subject, and since the wallpaper must be drawn by the producer, work efficiency is reduced.

On the other hand, with the rapid development of information and communication technology, portable telephones have also evolved with the development of technology, and have been developed to focus on additional services such as wireless Internet, electronic diary, and games, away from the conventional simple call function. An example is the june service provided by SK Telecom. The EV-DO service, which has almost the same transmission speed as the general wired Internet, has become more and more interested in mobile contents, and one of them is mobile animation.

Most of the animation is by the traditional method described above, and in other ways, a cartoon-printed publication (hereinafter referred to as "print cartoon") is scanned with a scanner to obtain an image, and the different working tools (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, I even edited it with a flashlight to create an animation. However, working with different work tools makes it difficult to purchase work tools and also requires different work tools for each work step in the animation, which limits the files that can be read between programs. I had this delayed problem.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and to provide a video cartoon production method that can easily perform a mobile animation production work in one program.

In order to achieve the above object, a video cartoon production method provided by the present invention includes: obtaining an original image by scanning a print cartoon for each page; Cutting the image for each cut from the obtained original image and storing the original image for each cut in separate layers; Cutting and acquiring a moving image of the cut-out original image from the original image of each cut separated from the original image in different layers; And selecting a background image from the obtained moving images, making a motion by superimposing the moving images according to the movement order of the object, and changing the moving image file into a moving image file.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of an animation production apparatus according to the present invention. The moving picture cartoon production apparatus disclosed in FIG. 1 includes a program in which an animation production method of the present invention described below is embedded in a conventional computer.

Referring to FIG. 1, the functional configuration of the video cartoon production apparatus disclosed in the present specification will be described with reference to an arithmetic processing unit 12, with a focus on an arithmetic unit 11 controlling the operation of each unit according to a calculation order defined by a program; A moving picture processing unit 13; Image correction unit 14; Scanner 15; Program memory 16; And the storage unit 17 are connected to each other.

The scanner 15 scans an image drawn on a print cartoon, obtains an original image (see FIG. 3A), and applies the original image to the original processing unit 12 through the calculating unit 11.

The original processing unit 12 divides the original image acquired by the scanner 15 for each cut and stores the original image for each cut in the storage unit 17 as an original image for each cut (see FIG. 3B).

The moving image processing unit 13 cuts out the moving image that needs to be moved from the original image for each cut included in the storage unit 17 and stores it as a separate layer (see FIG. 3C), and creates a moving image by overlapping the moving image in a time sequence. .

The image corrector 14 edits the image as if it were to color or delete the image. Accordingly, it is possible to correct the original image or the moving image.

The program memory 16 stores a program referenced by the operation unit for controlling the movement of each unit, and includes an animation production program that performs an animation production function described later.

On the other hand, the animation production program mounted on the production apparatus is stored in a recording medium such as a CD ROM and distributed to the producer and installed in the production apparatus, or downloaded and installed in real time in the form of a file through the Internet.

4A illustrates an interface of an animation editing program used by a producer, the interface comprising: an edit window 41 in which editing tools (eg, move, select, eraser, brush, pen, etc.) are provided in a button shape; And a property window 42 showing properties of the editing tool selected in the editing window. And, a layer window (43) showing the layers of each image worked; This is composed of a small window in the same way as the interface of the Photoshop program is provided on the right side of the screen, the left side of the temporary moving image selected from the original image for each layer The layer image window 45 to be stored is provided. The interface consists of a screen window 46 showing the activated image. In addition, when the selection tool of the editing tools provided in the editing window 41 is activated, additional editing tools are output in the property window. The property window containing the editing tools added to FIG. 4B is illustrated.

The producer produces an animation from the print cartoon using various functions provided by the animation production program through the above-described interface, and the production apparatus of the present invention modifies the image according to the edit contents of the image obtained from the interface. .

Hereinafter, a process of producing a video cartoon of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5.

First, at the request of the producer, the control unit 11 controls the scanner 15 to scan the original of the print cartoon for each page (S101). At this time, even if the size of the screen image is changed, the size and resolution of the image are properly adjusted so as to prevent the image from being broken. The original image obtained through such a scanning process is shown in FIG. 3A, and the original image is stored in the storage unit 17.

Thereafter, the original processing unit 12 retrieves the original image of FIG. 3A from the storage unit 17 and outputs the original image to the screen window 46. That is, the original image as shown in FIG. 3A is output to the screen window 46. The original processing unit 12 cuts the original image for each cut, obtains the original image for each cut illustrated in FIG. 3B, and stores the original image for each cut in the storage unit 17 (S102).

Next, only objects that require movement of the cut are extracted from the original image for each cut, which will be described in detail (S103).

When the selection tool of the editing tools of the editing window is activated, additional selection tools are displayed in the property window as shown in FIG. 4B. Then, the free selection of the selection tool added to Figure 4b is activated to prepare the producer to extract the desired object from the original image. Accordingly, a moving image obtained by moving the object in the original image is obtained, which is temporarily stored and displayed through the layer image window 45. 5 illustrates a moving image of an object extracted from an original image.

Next, the original processing unit 12 activates the magic wand among the editing tools of the attribute window 42 to select and delete images other than the objects required for moving pictures. The fairy tale image thus obtained is the 'layer 1' image of FIG. 3C.

Then, optionally, the original processing unit 12 corrects the image according to the edit contents input from the various editing tools provided by the image correction unit 14, or performs a correction operation to make the size constant (S014). . Preferably the size is found to be 176 * 128 (pixels), which is the size for mobile. The moving image obtained through this work is the moving image of each layer shown in Fig. 3C. The moving image illustrated in FIG. 3C is obtained based on the fifth cut original image of FIG. 3B.

In more detail, a process of modifying an image is performed. In the state of activating a selected moving image image among the moving image images shown through the layer image window 45 of the interface and displaying it on the screen window, the image correction unit 14 displays (41) According to the editing tool selected in the property window, the object-specified color is selected by using the eyedropper for each object, and the color is modified using the bucket. In addition, the hierarchical processing is performed according to the edited contents input from the editing tool of the editing window, and a color chart is displayed to select a suitable color by giving a contrast chart where contrast is applied. Here, the contrast is as set in the original painting and assimilation work. If necessary, color processing may be performed with the color and brightness gradients removed. This is to reduce the size of the image and to reduce the time and capacity for buffering the image.

By completing this process, one moving image is created, and the moving image displayed on the layer image window 45 is stored. The moving image in which the modification operation of the image is completed is recorded in the storage unit 17 in a different layer from the original image.

In this way, a moving image is obtained for each cut. Then, the moving image processing unit 13 loads and outputs the moving image stored in the storage unit 17 and gives a moving image (S105). This will be described in detail with the moving image of each layer illustrated in FIG. 3C.

With the moving image selected by the storage unit 17, the moving image processing unit 13 selects a background image from the moving image images as shown in FIG. 3C, and based on the moving image, a plurality of moving image images having movements are arranged according to the movement order. It overlaps with the background to complete the movement.

For example, in case of moving the text box, the text box image having the 'layer 1' and 'layer 2' of FIG. 3C is overlaid in time order with the background image of the 'layer 4' to complete the movement of the text box. .

When the movement for each cut is completed, the video is converted into a video file (eg, * .mov) and stored in the storage unit 17 to complete the animation production process (S106 and S107).

As described above, although the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto and is intended by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalents of the claims to be described.

According to the present invention, it is possible to produce a video cartoon by using a single production tool without the need to use a variety of production tools from the print comic simply by solving the above problems. Therefore, it is possible to increase the work efficiency, lower the production cost of animation and shorten the production time. In addition, expensive production tools do not need to be used, which lowers the cost of producing animation.

The following drawings attached to this specification are illustrative of preferred embodiments of the present invention, and together with the detailed description of the invention to serve to further understand the technical spirit of the present invention, the present invention is a matter described in such drawings It should not be construed as limited to

1 is a schematic block diagram of a video cartoon production apparatus according to the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of producing a moving picture cartoon from a print cartoon according to the invention.

3a is an original image of a print cartoon,

3b is an original image for each cut obtained from the original image;

3C shows a moving picture for each layer obtained from an original image.

Figure 4a is an example of the interface of the video cartoon production program to be used by the producer,

4B illustrates an editing tool displayed in the property window.

5 illustrates an image of an object requiring moving pictures.

* Brief description of the major symbols in the drawings *

11: control unit 12: original processing unit 13: fairy tale correction unit

14: Image Correction 15: Scanner 16: Program Memory

17: storage

Claims (4)

How to create animated cartoons using print cartoons, Scanning the print cartoon for each page to obtain an original image; Cutting the image for each cut from the obtained original image and storing the original image for each cut in separate layers; Cutting and acquiring a moving image of the cut-out original image from the original image of each cut separated from the original image in different layers; And, Selecting a background image from the obtained moving image, making a movement by superimposing the moving image according to the movement order of the object, and converting the moving image into a moving image file; The method of claim 1, The moving image is a cartoon cartoon production method, characterized in that obtained from the original image in the size of 176 * 128 (pixels). A process of scanning an original print page for each page to obtain an original image; and, A process of cutting an image for each cut from the original image obtained above and separating and storing the original image for each cut into different layers; and A process of cutting out the original image for each cut from the original image of each cut separated from the original image of each cut by the original image of each cut in the original image for each cut; And, And selecting a background image from among the obtained moving images, superimposing the moving images according to the movement order of the object, and converting the moving image into a moving image file. The method of claim 3, And the moving image is obtained from an original image having a size of 176 * 128 (pixels).