Serious Time #51 A Reason to Color?

Hello, and have you ever had an issue with not feeling the need to color? Me too, but don't fret because Disney has an answer to this problem as usual! Behold the Disney Research App! An application that allows you to not scratch out your eyes while coloring! Let me explain, this app can actually track where you color and transforms the drawing into a fully colored 3-D model. It does this through a tablets camera, this is more commonly known as augmented reality. The 3-D model isn't static though, it moves as if it has actually come to life. Disney's goal with the product is to enhance creative play. One of the issues brought up by a developer was determining how to actually apply the color. Since they were faced with the conflict of not being able to use mirrored coloring they had to use a method called continuous coloring to avoid seams between visible and occluded areas. To fix this issue they created a lookup map which matches pixels in the occluded parts with corresponding pixels in the portion visible to the user. Since they have first started testing this new product they have received promising results on the user's experience and the technical as well.


This article was interesting to say the least. It's cool that people are creating something like this but if you don't know this already I hate to color, I can't stand it. To me it is just monotonous and overall boring. I have this opinion because I like when a drawing makes one particular piece of the art stand out using a color, this is usually what I will do when I color. It's not just my personal preference that makes me not like this product it's the fact that it doesn't do anything that crazy and it doesn't seem like that big of a deal. That being said this product seems just really idiotic to me, useless and a waste of money, but hey that's just my opinion. Despite what I think this article was very well put together and was easy to understand. This pertained more to the animation side of digital media. Overall okay article.