Planning animation cinematography and shot structure to communicate theme and mood

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 22, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-8

  Kennedy, Kevin ^a   Mercer, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cinematography; computer animation; mood; narrative; shot structure; theme

Indexed keywords

AUDIO-VISUAL; CAMERA MOTIONS; CINEMATOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE; COMPUTER ANIMATION; PLANNING SYSTEMS;

CAMERAS; PLANNING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 77953889662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/569005.569006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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