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Everything about Inbetweening
Animation technique that creates intermediate frames
Inbetweening, also known as tweening, is a process in animation that involves creating intermediate frames, called inbetweens, between two keyframes. The intended result is to create the illusion of movement by smoothly transitioning one image into another. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: InbetweeningA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Thin-Plate Spline-based Interpolation for Animation Line InbetweeningInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Inbetweeners yearbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Inbetweening for computer animation utilizing moving point constraintsCited 76 times
- Go sideways: Computer animationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Key frameA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Synonym of tweening.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Inbetweening for computer animation utilizing moving point constraints
BetweenIT: An Interactive Tool for Tight Inbetweening
Deep Sparse-to-Dense Inbetweening for Multi-View Light Fields
Deep Sketch-Guided Cartoon Video Inbetweening
Context-Aware Computer Aided Inbetweening
DiLight: Digital light table – Inbetweening for 2D animations using guidelines
Stroke‐Based Drawing and Inbetweening with Boundary Strokes
Skeleton-Driven Inbetweening of Bitmap Character Drawings
🆕 Influential since 2022
Thin-Plate Spline-based Interpolation for Animation Line Inbetweening
Precise Motion Inbetweening via Bidirectional Autoregressive Diffusion Models
Inbetweening with occlusions for non-linear rough 2D animation
MultiCOIN: Multi‐Modal COntrollable INbetweening
Automatic Inbetweening for Stroke‐Based Painterly Animation
📚 Books worth reading
The Inbetweeners yearbookDamon Beesley · 2011
The Inbetweeners Script BookIain Morris · 2012
Inside The Inbetweeners An Unofficial GuideCharlotte Wilson · 2011
The Inbetweeners AzAlly Molloy · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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