DRAWINGS sketched on the screen of a Tablet PC can be animated in seconds thanks to new software. All it takes is the flourish of a stylus.
The software, called K-Sketch, allows a relatively unskilled user to sketch out a scene on the PC’s screen, select the parts they want to animate, and then simply drag these objects over the display to make them sweep, loop or spin in whatever way they want. The computer records these movements so that it can play them back as an animation.
K-Sketch was created by Richard Davis at the University of California, Berkeley,…
