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Autocomplete animation
One of the challenges animators face when they’re getting started is maintaining consistency in the objects they draw across numerous frames. It’s also time-consuming and labor-intensive to repeatedly draw and re-draw frames with the same objects to create a sense of motion. A team of researchers at the University of Hong Kong have come up with a clever system that learns what you’re trying to animate and suggests lines and strokes for the next frame. So, if you want to depict a swimming fish, you only need to draw the creature once and start the next frame with a single…

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