This presentation is a walk through of Shadow Artist, an Intel RealSense based app to create hand shadow animation movies.

1. Using Right Shadow Puppet Panel
Move Right hand over Shadow
Puppet Panel on Right

2. Shadow Puppet Selection
Close Right Hand to Select
the puppet into Preview
Pane

3. Preview Selected Puppet’s Animation
Keep Left Hand Open
and bring it over
preview Pane to see
puppet animation

4. Selecting a Puppet for Movie
Close left hand over
preview pane to select
the puppet in the
scene.

5. Moving the Puppet in Scene
Use either Right or Left
hand, keep hand open
and take it over the
puppet to move the
puppet. You can also
use touch input.

6. Use two hands to control two puppets

7. Working with Menus
Hover your left hand
over left menu panel to
highlight a menu

8. Selecting a Menu
Close your left hand
over highlighted menu
to select Menu.

9. Applying Pre-Animation through
menus
Once a menu is
selected and is green,
whichever puppet you
move first will have the
animation applied to
that puppet.

10. Live Shadow
Bring your hand closer
to camera to render
live shadow

11. Working With Media Center
Go to media center, use any of hands to hover over videos and close the hand to
select. Close your hand outside video window to close the video.

12. Salient Features of Gesture Control
• Use Left Hand for controlling
left panel items and right
hand for right item panels.
• Just two gestures: Hand
Open, Fist close. No
confusion.
• For control, hands are to be
kept at a distance from
camera, giving larger space in
3D for control.
• Use touch for puppet control

13. Movie Recording Features
• Record your animation as movies. Make short
stories and teach your kids the morals and social
responsibilities.
• Bring your hand closer to camera for live shadow.
• Both Live and augmented shadow puppets can be
used simultaneously.
• Supports voice recording.
• All the movies are saved in In-App gallery. You can
play movies within the app itself.

14. Pre-Animation and Menus
• Perform some cool animation on shadow
puppets with menus.
• Flip the direction of the puppet
• Move the puppet automatically in pre
recorded path
• Remove puppet at any time
• Automatically animate/ stop animating the
puppets.

15. Have fun with ShadowArtist