Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation

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Intelligent Comic Make System Based on Comic Script Creation

Shang-Te Tsai

Department of Economics and Management, Ningde Normal University

Ningde City, Fujian Province Economic Development Zone, Xueyuan Road City, No. 1
Ningde, China
feilongzz@gmail.com

Abstract expression of these modeling design and draw on the paper

(Figure 1).
In the traditional concept, to become a professional
cartoonist, need to accept a long time of painting training and
implementation, and in the screen and the role and script
design, the need to have a certain degree of imagination or
talent, with these related Of the creative ability to create a
fascinating comic works, this is not an easy thing.
In addition to the design of a comic design, in addition to the
sensory visual design of the screen, but also need to constitute
a cartoon story script creation, to be able to design a rich
picture and story plot comic works, so in the professional
comic production In this regard, the design and analysis of this
study will constitute the "design elements" of cartoons, which
are integrated into the "Creative Design Resource Integration
Model (CDRIM)" by classification and grouping. Structure, Figure 1: Comic Design and Creation Proces
and analysis of cartoon design constitute the "composition
elements", and then write the comic script to write the 1.2 Comic Script Creation
definition of the way, after this experiment, the creator can The main purpose of script creation is to write a whole story
directly write the text comic script way to produce a visual development process by writing, and mainly to the main
sub-mirror screen and the role of dialogue Comic design. elements of the picture, rather than as a novel story used to
This study realizes the cartoonist's other comic writing style, describe the whole story of the atmosphere of the narrative
to write the script to produce the comic style of creation, can atmosphere, or Is a deep description of the role of the heart like
reduce the traditional production of cartoon design manpower a deep description. The comic script is the basis of a comic
and capital and time and other costs, is conducive to book creation idea, which is a narrative process that makes up
professional cartoonist cartoon composition of the situation the comic picture. Compared with the film or animation script,
when the creative reference, As well as non-professional the comic script writing style is generally not fixed. For the
creative cartoon design training courses. cartoonist alone conceived creation with the graffiti notes, or
with a group of creative team to create a special file layout
Keywords: Comic design, Comic Script Writing, Design format of the text content of the script choreography.
Elements, Script Creation, Comic Creation Reference. The main purpose of the comic script creation is to record
the main process of the cartoonist plot conceived by the
1.Introduction cartoonist[7], to write the text description or to draw a rough
sketch, and to translate the description of the description into
1.1 Comic Design and Creation the actual content of the cartoon The The design of the comic
In the field of comic design creation, to become a script is a comic book that the cartoonist will imagine in the
professional cartoonist, need to accept a long painting training story of the coherent picture, written in the way of writing as
and practice, cartoonists need to have the basic skills of easy to read the layout of the format, in order to facilitate the
painting and imagination to create stories, and can imagine the comic design team to read and communicate, and the contents
story The cartoonist in the design of the creation of cartoon of the cartoon content of the actual division of visual design
role at the same time, the need to first conceive a basic story and division of labor Creation (Figure 2).
structure of the situation, has been created to create the cartoon
character modeling style, and then again in the imagination of
the cartoonist in the imagination of the picture The story of the
plot development, as well as the role of walking and dialogue
to sub-mirror presentation of the presentation, according to the
order of the story of the order of editing into a story and the
role of the wonderful comic design works[1], to provide
readers to appreciate and follow the story of the mirror
Figure 2: Comic Script Creation Process
Design[6], the story of the development of the plot into the
action between the role of walking and scene distribution, and

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1.3 Creative Design Resource Integration Model design elements classification The And this study will be these
Creative design resource integration model(CDRIM)[5], a design style similar to the group design elements[12] to be
model architecture that provides designers, shares their own integrated to form a complete cartoon design (Table 1).
creative and design resources, or uses other design resources
shared by other designers to add their own designs to form new TABLE 1
designs The new design work is also shared[8] to join the DESIGN ELEMENTS CONTENT CLASSIFICATATION
design resources, by sharing the design resources between
designers to stimulate the creative groups of many creative
ideas[2] to help designers to create design works and share the
design resources[10], and with other Designers exchange
design resources[9], reduce design costs and improve the
speed of creative design purposes (Figure 3).

Figure 3: Creative Design Resource Integration Model

3. Script Make Comic Analyze
2. Comic Design Elements Resource Integration 3.1 Script Format Structure Analysis
This study analyzes the general script creator in the creation
2.1 Design Element Resource Database
of the script, will be the script format is divided into two main
Based on the "CDRIM" model architecture, this study
parts used to control the performance of the play[4], mainly for
provides a design element integration database system
the top of the script format drama theme, scenes, roles, date
platform that provides comic designer groups[11] to share
and time The story of the environment settings, as well as the
design works, and provides cartoon designers with the main
script format below the roles between the dialogue, walking,
comic design, uploading them to the modeling integration
side and emotional expression and other role of the
database, The formation of the main design elements of the
performance sequence (Figure 5).
design, in order to other cartoon designers to upload the shape
of integration, resulting in a new design (Figure 4).

Figure 4: Design Element Resource Database

Figure 5: Script Format Structure Analysis
2.2 Design Elements Content Classification
The design of the comic designer groups, created and
3.2 Design Script Control Symbol
uploaded to the shape of the integrated library of comic
This study analyzes the main content of the general script, in
modeling, to be grouped, and most of the design style is
addition to the story environment settings and the performance
divided into the head, body, object, font, background and other
of the role between the order and other content, the other

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details of the description, it is necessary to rely on the director's

experience and imagination, the original text in the script,
Visualization of the screen, and this experience is the need for
a long time to learn, and the study designed to add a variety of
control symbols[4] in the script, used to directly control the
characters in the script expression and action and other factors
to increase the content of the script Reading, used to improve
the lack of experience such as the director or lack of
imagination, which led to more time to read the script to
understand the lack of content (Table 2).
Figure 7: Script Role Dialogue Make Corresponding Comic
TABLE 2
SCRIPT CONTROL SYMBOL 3.4 Comic Make System Process
The author designs the comic script creation system based
on comic script creation, and provides the comic bookwriter
input script text, let the system compare the script information
in the comic system database and find out the similarity drama,
scene, Dialogue[2], and so on, and then one by one than the
script of the role of dialogue is the first person or second
person or third person, and finally the results of the
information will be passed to the design elements of the
integration of the library comic picture (Figure 8).

3.3 Script Role Interactive Relationships Analysis

This study designs the script structure of the script creator to
analyze the content structure and finds out the interaction
between the characters in the script, such as expression,
dialogue, action and so on, and analyzes the relationship
between the main role and the secondary role And then the
system then specifies whether the comic image produced is a
first person or a second person or a third person (Figure 6).

Figure 6: Script Role Interactive Relationships Analysis

This study design will be the role of the script between the
dialogue is divided into me, you and he and him and other Figure 8: Comic Make System Process
factors, and the system analysis of the role of dialogue between
the role, the corresponding comic modeling, such as between 4. System Demonstration Examples
the two roles Distance, size, location, etc. (Figure 7). In this study, the "animal family Shanghai tourism" comic
script input system experiment, and take turns to CPanda
(Figure 9) and TBear (Figure 10) and GBird (Figure 11) as the
first person role in the dialogue And the experimental results
system will be for each role of different script content, such as
the appearance of the order or distance ratio, the various roles
of the expression and action and location size changes, and
produce the corresponding comic image.

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context of the creation of reference, with the reduction of the

traditional production of cartoon design manpower and capital
as well as time and other costs, as well as non-professional
creative cartoon design training courses.
And because this study is based on the script control symbol
control to produce comic images, and this script creation
method also need to learn and adapt, so the future expect to
improve the problem, such as the use of complete "natural
language" to comic script For the cartoonist or screenwriter
can use their most familiar language grammar for script
creation, and the system to produce the required comic images.
Figure 9: CPanda Dialogue First Person Make Comic
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