• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.11
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• pp.121-136
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• 2007

Recently, the cases that many works of the korean independent animation advance to the world by steps and some of them win the grand prix in famed global animation film festival are proving the growth potential and competitiveness. In this situation, to guarantee the continuous, and reliable as well, growth and international competitiveness of it, it is needed to ensure the government's systematic supports. Although it is a bit leaned toward the creative animation for a theater, however, or many kinds of supporting system are established and carried out, independent animation is still suffering from the financial pressure. As of now, it is must be considered of the international standing of korean independent animation and is needed to be discussed how the government's supporting systems are proceeding and what they are performing. From this point of view, this paper will study the present condition and international standing of the korean independent animation, and further, will examine and analyze the on-going supporting systems. This, consequently, intends to present the direction of government's system to promote the korean independent animation.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.47
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• pp.125-148
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• 2017

This paper analyzes Korean aesthetic characteristics of Korean independent animation, which is closely related to artistic and social characteristics, by searching Korean independent animation image for the winner of "Indie AniFest", the only independent animation film festival in Korea. And social communication methods. There are three ways in which Korean Independence Animation shows the way of speaking through award-winning works. The first is a method of expressing feelings, impulses, and desires in a formative way, and a direct and sensuous image as in sign language or sound. In the second method of speaking differently with images, in the third method, It makes the voice of the fringe through the real world of the story sound as a story of reality. Animation is a medium that 'originalizes and communicates meaning' as an image, and has implemented and constructed a new way of speaking, which is different from existing social voices. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find a research that approaches animation from the viewpoint of social and political speech through images. Therefore, this paper is necessary for the balanced development of animation. In addition, this study can contribute to re - examining Korean independent animation from an academic point of view and to discover and evaluate fair value from a wider perspective.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.48
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• pp.1-22
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• 2017

Independent short animation was the expression method for young animation creators through creative and progressive representation. Since the birth of animation, independent short animation has become a driving force for qualitative development and diversification of animation. This has brought many works to the world that emphasize experimentation and challenges in the history of animation and in countries that have the rich animation resources such as France, Japan, and Canada, they recognize its importance and supports young creators in order to maintain the value of it. However, Korean animations are evaluated the quality of works by the popularity of the children, moreover, companies that focus on developing and selling products, including toys, rather than animation works themselves and public awareness that accepts them are formed throughout the Korean animation industry. Because of these points, Korean animation creators can not express the creative vision for the future and philosophical awareness of the problem and they are trapped in commercial animation markets. In order to re-leap and expand the Korean animation industry, which has reached the saturation level with infant animation, it is necessary to reestablish the value of independent short animations with challenging and experimental characteristics and requires the creative environment and support system for the diversity of Korean animation industries, including the achieving commercial goals through good planning, story development and technological innovation. For this purpose, this paper analyzes the current state of production, screening, distribution, and government support of independent short animation in Korea, and explores the structural problems and solutions.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.453-456
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• 2001

가상환경에서 애니메이션을 구현하는 방법으로는 여러 가지가 있다. 그러나 그 방법들을 살펴보면 애니메이션 데이터와 아바타 데이터가 서로 분리되지 못하고, 애니메이이션 데이터는 아바타 데이터에 종속되어 있다는 단점이 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 애니메이션 데이터를 아바타 데이터에 독립적으로 기술할 수 있도록 새로운 행위 기술언어를 정의하고 이를 활용할 수 있도록 하는 시스템을 개발, 제시하도록 한다.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.45
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• pp.367-396
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• 2016

As an animation educator at Mahidol University International College, Bangkok, for eight years I have been in a privileged position to be educating a small section of a new generation of Thai animators. Thailand has had little animation experimentation of their own and pre-internet had limited access to such diversity so I have attempted to bring some of the wealth of animation history, in particular British and European, as this is my background, into the classroom. In particular my teaching aim has been to introduce various possibilities to the choices of medium, styles and textual narratives that early (and current) experimental and independent animators have explored. Since the release of the first commercial feature film, Khun Kluay 2006, the Thai animation industry has gone through various highs and lows in the commercial sector, building a skilled workforce, many of whom trained and worked abroad then returned. Now there is strong evidence of an independent animation starting to emerge. In a continuation to my research on Thai Animation this paper will analyze selected independent works in more detail, exploring the themes, style and technology used. Whilst also acknowledging the possible mis- interpretation as that this is coming from the perspective of an outsider whose cultural language and interpretation may transcend the creators' given experiences and add alternative interpretation. The aim will be to contextualize the content, ideas and cultural perspective and bring more Thai works into the gaze of animation studies academics

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.796-800
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• 2009

Currently, there are many software tools that can generate 3D human figure models and animations based on the advancement of computer graphics technology. However, we still have problems in interoperability of human data models in different applications because common data models do not exist. To address this issue, the Web3D Consortium and the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC24 WG6 have developed the H-Anim standard. However, H-Anim does not include human motion data formats although it defines the structure of a human figure. This research is intended to obtain interoperable human animation by defining the data for human motions in H- Anim figures. In this paper, we describe a syntactic method to define motion data for the H-Anim figure and its implementation. In addition, we describe a method of specifying motion parameters necessary for generating animations by using an arbitrary character model data set created by a general graphics tool.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.811-816
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• 2003

VRML은 애니메이션을 구현하기 위한 구문을 기본적으로 제공하고 있으나, 몇 가지 문제점을 가지고 있다. 우선 아바타 데이터와 애니메이션 데이터의 완벽한 분리가 불가능하고 데이터가 종속적이어서, 어느 한 쪽의 수정이 가해질 경우 다른 데이터도 그에 맞춰 수정해 주어야 한다. 이러한 기존 VRML의 단점을 극복하기 위해, 아바타 데이터와 애니메이션 데이터를 XML 기반의 행위기술 언어를 정의하고. 이 언어로 작성된 데이터를 처리하기 위한 애니메이션 시스템의 연구가 필요하다. 이러한 행위기술 언어는 아바타 데이터와 애니메이션 데이터를 서로 독립적으로 분리시킬 수 있어야 하며, 또한 아바타 데이터의 수정이 전제되어도 재활용이 가긍한 애니메이션 데이터를 작성하는 것이 가능해야 한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 아바타 관련 표준화 동향과 VRML로 정의된 휴머노이드 아바타의 문제점을 정의하고. 이를 극복하기 위한 방안으로 휴머노이드 아바타의 외형을 H-Anim 표준에 따르는 계층적 구조로 정의하였다 또한 휴머노이드 아바타의 행위 및 표정을 XML DTD와 DI로 정의하고, XML로 정의된 휴머노이드의 외형/행위/표정을 기존의 VRML 브라우저에서 표현하기 위한 처리 방법 덴 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 끝으로 위와 같이 설계된 결과를 아바타 채팅 시스템의 구현에 적용하여 연구결과의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.5
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• pp.485-489
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• 2001

본 작품은 사실적 표현, 즉 실사에 근거한 분위기의 애니메이션에 관한 관점에서 시작한다. 물론 애니메이션에서는 생략과 과장이 자유로우며 풍자적이고 은유적인 분위기를 연출하는 것이 특징이다. 즉 사실성보다는 허구적이며 과장된 표현으로 왜곡을 가함으로써 관객들에게 극적 효과를 유발한다. 하지만 관객은 사실적이지 않은 허구인 것을 알면서도 자유로운 상상력의 오락적 분위기에 흥미를 갖는다. 아울러 본 작품은 애니메이션의 동인(動因)과 감성과의 관계를 전제로 한 애니메이션의 분석모형 작품이다. 이러한 모델 설계를 통해 대상물의 본질적인 면, 즉 사실성에 근거한 표현정도에 따라 인간의 감성이 달라질 수 있다는 가정 하에 애니메이션에 있어서 프레임 수와 대상물의 단순화 정도에 따라 감성이 어떻게 반응하고 변화하는가를 웹사이트 상에서 조사할 수 있도록 분석모형을 제작하였다. 연구작품을 위해 애니메이션의 동인이라고 할 수 있는 시간, 운동, 공간 중에서 움직임 지각에 영향을 줄 수 있는 타이밍, 즉 속도문제에 대해 프레임 수와 단순화 단계를 애니메이션의 Movement 동인에 대한 조작적 정의에 독립변수로 보았다. 분석모형의 설계는 객관적인 시각에서 대상물의 움직임을 파악할 수 있는 Duration이 짧은 유형의 대상물(말)과 중간정도의 대상물(사람), 그리고 긴 유형의 대상물(거북이)을 표본으로 선정하여 각 대상물마다 4단계의 프레임으로 나누어 좌표상의 Y축에 제작 배열하였다. 한편 단순화 단계는 대상물의 사실성에 선 드로잉에 이르기까지 4단계로 구분${\cdot}$제작하여 X축에 배열하여 각 클립별 감성언어 조사를 인터넷상에서 할 수 있도록 디자인하였다. 한편 각 클립에서 보여지는 표현향식에 대해 느끼는 감성조사는 디자인 관련 감성 형용사 중에서 본 연구에 적합한 감성언어들을 골라 조사 실시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.43-52
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• 1999

In this paper, we present an animation toolkit based on motion mapping technique in a graphics user interface that can represent data structures necessary for generating character motions. The motion mapping means that an animation sequence generated once can be mapped to another object directly according a data structure in the graphics user interface. Users can generate animation sequences interactively using a mouse. These are obtained automatically by modifying motion data structures interactively. Compared with other conventional tools, the toolkit has different features that two hierarchical structures necessary for representing modeling and animation data are managed independently each other, and that animations generated can be applied to any other characters by connecting the two hierarchical structures in the user interface.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.191-193
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• 2017

Stop-motion animation, which is based on the physical object and is shot frame by frame, is an traditional art of animation. As an independent art form, it has formed a unique art language through a century-long development. With the continuous exploration by animators, stop-motion animation has actively combined with digital technology, and has made a great progress in the use of materials and the technique of filming. the introduction of digital technology not only enriched it's artistic expression, but also laid the basis for it's sustainable development in the new era. This study investigates how 3D printer technology affects the production process and industry of stop motion animation.