Camerawork for comics generated from visitors' experiences in a virtual museum

Authors:
Ruck Thawonmas;Kohei Kato
Affiliations:
Intelligent Computer Entertainment Laboratory, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan;Intelligent Computer Entertainment Laboratory, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
Venue:
ICEC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Entertainment Computing
Year:
2011

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Abstract

We present a camerawork module for representing events in a virtual museum with a comic style. The module uses four basic camera shots, i.e., internal, external, apex, and group, to compose a shot sequence of two main events happening in a museum, i.e., move and stay. This module is fully implemented in a comic generation system we have been developing for summarizing user experiences in Second Life. Visual comparison, with a baseline camerawork, confirms the effectiveness of the proposed camerawork module.