From movie to comic, informed by the screenplay
Jacqueline Preu, Jörn Loviscach · 2007
Semi-automated solutions can transform the images of a film into a comic strip. Whereas the conversion of movies [Hwang et al. 2006] and 3D games [Shamir et al. 2006] to comics has been addressed before, we propose novel ways of user interaction and--most prominently--leverage much information from a movie's screenplay. Thanks to standard screenplays' highly structured "studio format," we can employ textual analysis at several stages: