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Turn Real Life Into A Cartoon
Saige writes "Ever wanted to see yourself in a cartoon? Before now, there were means to turn a single image into something cartoon-like, but some folks at Microsoft Research have come up with a method to turn a video into an animated cartoon. It's not up to doing it fully automated, as you have to hand-mark various parts of the video every 10 to 15 frames, but the video of the results is quite impressive."
That's it, good night folks, I've seen it all.
"However, even the 300 frame video of the girl swinging on the money bars only needs a keyframe every 10 or 15 frames."
I just hope they don't make it part of Wordart or something.
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I always knew Microsoft was a Mickey Mouse corporation.
Nothing disturbs me more than blind loyalism towards some unrealistic and over-idealistic notion of one's nationality.
Bill's kid comes home crying. Seems his little schoolchum's dad Steve has a hip movie studio that makes way cool animated features. Why can't you do that, Dad? I want an animation studio! I want it right now! So Daddy Bill picks up the phone and commands that Megacorp also begin work on animation. Unfortunately, Megacorp's work ends up looking a lot like old Clutch Cargo episodes. Bill's kid cries himself to sleep.
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My life is already quite cartoonishly silly. The only way software could make it more so would be to automatically drop an anvil on me as I fell off a cliff like Wylie Coyote.
I'll be most impressed when they have a Cartoon Physics Engine.
I used to work at a place where some sort of technique was applied to turn the work environment into a Dilbert episode.
Not again, thanks! I already found it here.
Regards, Martin