SIGGRAPH '22

Rapid design of articulated objects

Joon Hyub Lee

Hanbit Kim

Seok-Hyung Bae

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We are a group of designers and engineers working on software tools that enable professional artists and designers to express what they want in a way that is most natural to them.

Our latest work on โ€œ3D sketchingโ€ bridges the gap between 2D sketching and 3D modeling to let artists and designers rapidly produce animated 3D concepts through interactions that closely resemble sketching on a sheet of paper or grabbing and handling a toy with bare hands.

We believe it will be particularly useful during the early stages of development, where a lot of ideas are thrown around very quickly and frequently, and a little bit of rough 3D forms and 3D movements can go a long way in communicating intentions.

Presented at SIGGRAPH '22 Vancouver, Canada, the top international academic conference in computer graphics where researchers and practitioners gather from all over the world to share their next big ideas and technologies for upcoming films, animations, games, robots, and even the metaverse.

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ My talk @ SIGGRAPH 2022

๐Ÿ“ฆ Get the supplementary material:

[1. FBX sketches]

[2. Follow-up surface modeling]

[3. Technical details]

[4. Full interviews]

[5. Usage patterns]

[6. Time-lapse footages]

๐Ÿ” View the 3D sketch examples:

Below are interactive showcases of a few selected 3D sketches that were created and animated using our system by the authors (unlabeled) or the participants of the user study (labeled P#-X).

โ€ข Orbit around: left click + drag (mouse) or one finger drag (touch).
โ€ข Zoom: scroll anywhere (mouse) or pinch (touch).
โ€ข Pan: right click + drag (mouse) or two fingers drag (touch).

Flying car

Drone

Mini electric vehicle

Dragoon

Osprey

Spot

P1-B Self-driving shuttle (time taken: 1 hr 22 min)

P2-C Autonomous excavator (time taken: 2 hr 52 min)

P3-C Spacecraft (time taken: 2 hr 10 min)

P3-E Skeleton dragon (time taken: 55 min)

P4-D Sword-drone (time taken: 1 hr 8 min)

P4-G Holographic smartwatch (time taken: 23 min)

P5-A Mecha T-Rex (time taken: 59 min)

P5-B Transformer robot (time taken: 1 hr 11 min)

๐Ÿ’ก Abstract:

Designing articulated objects is challenging because, unlike with static objects, it requires complex decisions to be made regarding the form, parts, rig, poses, and motion. We present a novel 3D sketching system for rapidly authoring concepts of articulated objects for the early stages of design, when designers make such decisions. Compared to existing CAD software, which focuses on slowly but elaborately producing models consisting of precise surfaces and volumes, our system focuses on quickly but roughly producing models consisting of key curves through a small set of coherent pen and multi-touch gestures. We found that professional designers could easily learn and use our system and author compelling concepts in a short time, showing that 3D sketching can be extended to designing articulated objects and is generally applicable in film, animation, game, and product design.

๐Ÿ”‘ Keywords:

3D sketching, segmenting, rigging, posing, filming, bimanual interactions, pen, multi-touch

๐Ÿ“ฐ See more from the worldwide coverage (selected):

ๆ‰‹ๆ›ธใใ‚นใ‚ฑใƒƒใƒใงๆใ„ใŸใ‚ญใƒฃใƒฉใ‚„ใƒญใƒœใƒƒใƒˆใฎ้–ข็ฏ€ใ‚’่‡ชๅœจใซๅ‹•ใ‹ใ›ใ‚‹ใƒ‡ใ‚ถใ‚คใƒณใƒ„ใƒผใƒซใ€€้Ÿ“ๅ›ฝใƒใƒผใƒ ใŒ้–‹็™บ (2022, Levtech)

็ฌฆๅทๅŒ–ใ€UIๆ–ฐๆŠ€่ก“ใŒ็™ปๅ ด (2022, ๆ˜ ๅƒๆ–ฐ่ž ็ฌฌ2553ๅท)

๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํŽœ์œผ๋กœ ยด์“ฑ์“ฑยด ๊ทธ๋ ค ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” 3D ํ˜•์ƒ ยด๋š๋”ฑยด ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœโ€‹ (2022, KAIST)

ํŽœ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์“ฑ์“ฑ ์›€์ง์—ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉด..'10๋ถ„ ๋งŒ์— ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” 3D ์Šค์ผ€์นญ' (2022, TJB)

์›€์ง์ด๋Š” 3D ํ˜•์ƒ ์‰ฝ๊ณ  ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ! (2022, KBS๋Œ€์ „)

'8๋ฐฐ ๋น ๋ฅธ 3D ์Šค์ผ€์น˜' ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ (2022, ๋Œ€์ „MBC)

์‚ฐ์—…๋””์ž์ธํ•™๊ณผ, ์„ฑ์‹ฌ๋‹น์— ์ด์€ ๋Œ€์ „ โ€˜ํ•ซํ”Œโ€™ ๋“ฑ๊ทน (2022, KAIST ๊ณต๊ณผ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๋‰ด์Šค๋ ˆํ„ฐ ์ œ2022-1ํ˜ธ)

๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํŽœ์œผ๋กœ ยด์“ฑ์“ฑยด ๊ทธ๋ ค ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” 3D ํ˜•์ƒ ยด๋š๋”ฑยด ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœโ€‹ (2022, KAIST ๊ณต๊ณผ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๋‰ด์Šค๋ ˆํ„ฐ ์ œ2022-2ํ˜ธ)

์›€์ง์ด๋Š” 3D ์Šค์ผ€์นญ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ (2022, ์นด์ด์ŠคํŠธ์‹ ๋ฌธ ์ œ507ํ˜ธ)

๊ฐ€์ƒ ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ํ˜„์‹ค์„ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋‚ธ๋‹ค (2022, KAIST๋น„์ „ 2022 ๊ฒจ์šธ)

๊ตญ๋‚ด ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋ณด๋„ ํ†ตํ•ฉ (2022, 17 presses)

People

Joon Hyub Lee

Ph.D. student

Hanbit Kim

Ph.D. student

Seok-Hyung Bae

Associate professor

Publications

๐Ÿ† SIGGRAPH '22 (Emerging Technologies) - Honorable Mention

Rapid design of articulated objects: an interactive showcase

Joon Hyub Lee, Hanbit Kim, and Seok-Hyung Bae

Awards

๐Ÿ† SIGGRAPH '22 Emerging Technologies Honorable Mention

Rapid Design of Articulated Objects: An Interactive Showcase

Joon Hyub Lee, Hanbit Kim, and Seok-Hyung Bae

Department of Industrial Design, KAIST
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