Our project allows users to create an animated film. They have the choices of a variety of backgrounds and characters.
They also create the dialogue between the characters. We use these preferences and turn it into a visual animation.
We found several animations at the Animation Factory website
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The first step is to enter the title , your name, and the number of scenes you wish to create. You are then redirected to the next page where you start creating your first scene. For this page, you select the # of characters you wish to be in that scene (up to 5), the background for the scene, the specific characters themselves, and the dialogue between the characters. When you finish each scene, you are either create your next scene, or have finished creating your movie. |
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biohazardman.ppm |
shopping_girl.ppm |
business_lady.ppm |
cowboy.ppm |
cub_scout.ppm |
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lifeguard.ppm |
male_lawyer.ppm |
moviestar.ppm |
officer.ppm |
pirate.ppm |
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hula_girl.ppm |
guitarist.ppm |
martial_arts_guy.ppm |
young_woman.ppm |
robber.ppm |
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rockstar.ppm |
roller_girl.ppm |
man_exorcist.ppm |
sailor.ppm |
surfer.ppm |
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We had to learn a lot for this project. For the webpage that retrieved all of the users' preferences, we learned HTML for the page, and used Perl and cgi-scripts to save, interpret, and output these preferences into usable data for our graphics program, in the form of script files. We wrote a C++ program that used OpenGL to use this data and accordingly output a graphic window for each scene. The scenes are then linked together into one animated gif. |
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Unfortunately, due to security issues with the Princeton Office of Information
and Technology, we cannot set up a server that links the webpage directly to the program.
However, we can still demonstrate the graphics by creating the appropriate script files separately.
