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From movie to comic, informed by the screenplay

Published: 05 August 2007 Publication History

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Semi-automated solutions can transform the images of a film into a comic strip. Whereas the conversion of movies [Hwang et al. 2006] and 3D games [Shamir et al. 2006] to comics has been addressed before, we propose novel ways of user interaction and--most prominently--leverage much information from a movie's screenplay. Thanks to standard screenplays' highly structured "studio format," we can employ textual analysis at several stages:
• The line counts of the scenes in the screenplay are used to estimate every scene's temporal placement in the film.
• The scenes' dialogue is extracted from the screenplay and turned into speech balloons placed sequentially.
• Verbal directions such as (whispers) are recognized and mirrored by corresponding type and speech balloon styles.
• If a character's dialogue is interrupted by actions, its different parts are used to form a double-burger style speech balloon.
• Offscreen speech is put into a speech balloon emanating from a panel's side; a voice-over is placed in a rectangle.
• Verbs in action lines such as The VASE crashes onto the floor. are recognized and turned into noise balloons.

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Hwang, W.-I., Lee, P.-J., Chun, B.-K., Ryu, D.-S., and Cho, H.-G. 2006. Cinema comics: Cartoon generation from video stream. In Proc. of GRAPP 2006, 299--304.
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Shamir, A., Rubinstein, M., and Levinboim, T. 2006. Parametric comics creation from 3D interaction. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 26, 3, 53--61.
[3]
Winnemöller, H., Olsen, S. C., and Gooch, B. 2006. Real-time video abstraction. ACM TOG 25, 3, 1221--1226.

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August 2007
197 pages
ISBN:9781450318280
DOI:10.1145/1280720
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