Machine Learning Powered Automation: The Future Of Animation

Walt Disney is synonymous with mainstreaming of animation. He was a visionary beyond his time. His creativity and imagination turned simple 2-D characters based on a mouse and a duck into a multi-billion dollar business conglomerate. However, back then animation used to be an extremely labour intensive exercise and animators/cartoonists had to frame by frame draw the entire film. That is how things used to be until the arrival of the year 1972 when two researchers from the University of Utah, Ed Catmull and Fred Parke created a computer animated short video of Catmull's left hand.