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How the HandsOn tool was used to make an example animation |
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As a demonstration, HandsOn was used to make an animation of hands signing a poem.
The poem chosen was "who knows if the moon's a balloon" by e.e.cummings. Because of time limitations, only the first stanza of the poem was used:
who knows if the moon's
a balloon coming out of a keen city
in the sky -- filled with pretty people?
This was translated into British Sign Language by Cazz O'Neill. The translation can be broken down into a series of seperate sign gestures or glosses.
Gloss translation (note that English words and phrases are used to stand for the equivalent gestures):
How-many people believe moon like
balloon-rising look-down keen city
based sky full pretty people
Each gloss was coded up in HandsOn Gesture Notation (HGN).
HGN coding for the first few glosses:
"how-many"
ha[m];
sh[0,0];
ori[i,3,i,3];
loc[0,0,0,1,0,0,1];
hsh[41,1,1];
line[r,1,-0.1,-1.5];
time[0,-2];
~"people(part1)"
ha[1];
sh[4];
ori[iu,-1];
loc[0,2,0];
hsh[5, 1, 1];
line[d,1,-2,0];
~"people(part2)"
ha[1];
sh[3];
ori[r,2];
loc[];
line[d,1,-2,0];
~"believe"
ha[2];
sh[3,46];
ori[r,0,u,-1];
loc[0,1,0,0,0,-2,0];
hsh[47,1,0];
hit[40,2,d,0];
~
This code was fed into HandsOn as a text file. HandsOn parsed the code and generated key-framed animation of hands peforming the sign language. The key-frames were imported into Maya and rendered.
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