New tool streamlines the creation of moving pictures

Much better examples are found in the authors' supplemental materials [0], showing the input to the program (the raw image annotated with circles and an arrow) and the results. I particularly liked the Calvin & Hobbes animation [1], which shows a couple different types of movement that this algorithm can do.

[0] https://pixl.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Willett_2018_AMI/supp/ind...

[1] https://pixl.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Willett_2018_AMI/supp/dat...

However, as far as I can tell, the shown inputs for the Calvin & Hobbes image are incomplete; I think it must've had multiple different object extraction steps, as seen in [2] to separately animate the rotating arrows, falling rain, and rising evaporation.

[2] https://pixl.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Willett_2018_AMI/supp/dat...

Can we download the tool anywhere?

Just watched the video, but is it correct to assume the inputs to this are:

- Manually specifying layers in the image by depth.

- Manually specifying all the objects you'd want to animate.

- Providing an animation direction and type.

Then it generates an animation?