[其它] A Sketch-based Interface to Script Comics Reading

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1 Introduction

The advent of smartphones and the emergence of tablet personal

computers have led to modify the contents delivery device. Touchscreen

devices and their end-user accessibility (user interface,

add/remove applications, system upgrade) emphasize their popularity

and are largely used to display media information contents (text,

audio, still images, . . . ) and multimedia (video games, . . . ). Even

if the screen resolutions are smaller than those of image acquisition

systems, the user can have a global view of the image or the text

and focus easily on a detail through the tactile user interface (zoom

in/out). Remark that the book reading is structured and linear (from

left to right and top to bottom for occidental reading for example),

while the image viewing is non-linear and often structured (viewer

can both focus on particular detail or have a global view and its

viewing is almost unpredictible). For these cases, the scenarization

of the book reading or image viewing is very simple (respectively

one main predictible displacement or a free manipulation).

Some media, like comics are non-linear structures and can be hard

to read sometimes (box sizes, overlapping, text, successive word

balloons. . . ). Comics reading on smartphones or tablet devices remains

a problem because a global view of a comics page does not

provide any suitable sufficient resolution. Moreover comics reading

is non-linear and so there is not such predictible displacements.

For these reasons the scenarization of the comics reading should be

created to let the viewer concentrate upon the story and never suffer

from any searches of successive story’s elements that radically

modify its perception.

At the moment the scenarization is realized, in the best case, manually

in the industry through image manipulation tools, produces

very limited results and is very expensive (i.e even if these tools

permit to crop, resize an image. . . , they are not dedicated to create

script reading).

As comics is a graphic media, we think that the scenarization process

should be realized interactively by the comics creator or at least

by a graphist or a designer. Sketch-based interface, as a powerfull

way to express something, seems to be the most suitable solution

to provide any scenarizations of the comics reading. As shown by

Gross[Gross ], kinds of systems exist and can be classified in terms

of descriptiveness and generality. As CrossY[Apitz and Guimbretiere

] we want to provide a system in which pen based interaction

is used to point, edit or interact with. Igarashi et al.[Igarashi

et al. ] mentioned that one of key direction consists in to reinvent

applications to leverage pen input’s intrinsic capability for rapid,

direct, modeless 2D expression.

We propose a sketch-based tool to script comics reading for different

devices with their own screen size and resolution. Our tool is

able to create global view, to extract images and boxes, to produce

various transitions between images (fades, movements, accumulations,

. . . ), to display each image on the device screen with a displacement

in the image. . . Moreover, we provide a viewer for each

target device able to read the produced script and allowing user interactions.

Note that more than a comics reading scenarization, it

can be used to script any non-linear structured media.