Animated images are almost magical in their ability to capture our imagination. By telling a compelling story, astounding with special e ects, or mesmerizing with abstract motion, animation can infuse a sequence of inert images with the illusion of motion and life. Creating this illusion, either by hand or with the assistance of computer software, is not easy. Each individual image, or frame, i...

The Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt reveals the stories and struggles women who have gone chiefly uncredited for their contributions to Disney Animation. By adopting a loosely chronological approach, weaves personal creative influence Bianca Majolie, Grace Huntington, Retta Scott, Mary Blair, Sylvia Holland others throughout animation’s timeline from mid-1930s present time.

We show that we can effectively fit complex animation models to noisy image data. Thus, complete head models can be acquired with a cheap and entirely passive sensor. The shape and motion parameters of limbs can be similarly captured and fed to existing animation software to produce synthetic sequences. In this paper, we show that we can effectively fit complex facial and body animation models ...