Forms of Expression for Designing Visual Languages for Animation

• Main Authors: DAVIS, Richard Christopher, Landay, James A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research_all/6; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=sis_research_all
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We present further steps in our research into visual languages for animation. Animation is a rich mode of communication that is currently accessible to few, because animation systems are complex. Some systems try to make animation simple but put severe limits on users’ creative expression. Our field studies are demonstrating that would-be animators need to express animation in a wide variety of ways. We are developing a taxonomy of forms of expression for animation that will help the designers of visual languages for animation to determine which expressive forms to support. Our end goal is to build animation sketching systems that use pen input to make animation universally accessible.