August 2018

SIGGRAPH 2015-2018

—graphic artist in Halifax, Canada.

This article is third in a series, following SIGGRAPH 2013: Art-direction and SIGGRAPH 2014: Parallization. A thread through those articles was an introduction to the stylization of painterly characters for animation. In 2013, Pierre Bénard presented Stylizing Animation by Example, which offered a practical solution for maintaining the stylistic continuity of animated, painterly characters. In 2014, Disney Research came forward with Authoring and Animating Painterly Characters, which presented research and development of paint-over tools for painterly character animation with smooth, controllable results. And so here are some of the latest technical papers on non-photorealistic rendering and some of the ways that this painterly stylization for animation has rippled into the motion picture industry.

Stylization for Animation

Article in review.