AnimatedDrawings is a system for transforming static 2D drawings of humanoid figures into animated characters. It provides a workflow for character rigging, motion mapping, and scene assembly to turn hand-drawn sketches into moving visual sequences.
The project utilizes a motion retargeting framework to map movement data from motion capture files onto custom character skeletons regardless of their physical proportions. It employs a rigging tool that uses pose estimation to automatically predict joint locations and create digital skeletons, which can be manually refined to improve animation accuracy.
The software covers a broad range of animation production capabilities, including pixel-based image warping to simulate fluid movement, skeleton-aware masking for character segmentation, and a scene composer for combining multiple animated figures with static backgrounds into final video files.