Microsoft Lets You Autocomplete Your Animations Now

Animation has been a traditionally labor-intensive method of filmmaking, but Microsoft Research hopes to change all of that with its latest development. Created in conjunction with the University of Hong Kong and University of Tokyo, the unimaginatively named “Autocomplete Hand-Drawn Animations” program involves an algorithm that takes into account an initial drawing and suggests a skeleton beginning from the first stroke of the second drawing for the artist to trace. The software also allows for the artist to duplicate a shading pattern across the entire animation. Check out the future of hand animation in the video demonstration above.