ReCCO: An Interactive App for Sketching Web Comics

Over the last years, casual and amateur artists have been using the emerging Internet technologies to easily produce, share and distribute their web comics. However, easiness and quickness are not enough. These web applications to create comics still show very simple and static interaction methods, restricting users’ experience.
With this paper, we propose a solution for creating web comics which builds upon and extends the traditional principles of creating traditional comics. Our approach combines sketch-based interaction to draw comics with shape and command recognition, computer assisted drawing and retrieval of previous visual elements. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that our approach allows users to create more appealing and richer comics with higher flexibility and efficiency than with existent applications.

Ricardo Lopes, Tiago Cardoso, Nelson Silva, Manuel João da Fonseca
14th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS’09)
San Francisco, USA
09/2009

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