Our ANR research project “Animation Conductor” is moving forward!
This month, Dada ! Animation welcomed IRISA researchers to the studio for a new milestone meeting as part of the ANR project “Animation Conductor.” The first version of a prototype co-developed by our teams was tested by our animators, alongside developers and researchers Anthony Mirabile and Théo Gerard.
The meeting gave us the opportunity to exchange ideas in preparation for a new technical paper and to identify several promising research directions. A first paper entitled “Expressive Animation Retiming from Impulse-Based Gestures” had already been written as part of the project by Marie Bienvenu from LIX (École Polytechnique). It was presented at MIG 2024 (Motion, Interaction and Games) in Washington, D.C., where it received the award for Best Short Paper.
Supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR) over a period of more than three years, the project aims to study and develop an open-source prototype for 3D animation editing using voice and gesture interaction. Research and development will continue throughout the coming year to further refine the prototype.
