Sumit Pandey NMD 09

LUNCH BOX/ LIGHT BOX REDESIGNwith Harish the animator

EXISTING WORKSPACE STUDY

EXISTING DESIGN

Top Left: Existing interface Top: Lunchbox Screen Bottom Left: Lightbox

DRURYS MATRIX (BASED ON USER STUDY)

ANTHROPOMETRIC ANALYSIS

01//SCENARIO HARISH Meet Harish. Harish is our friendly neighborhood undergrad student who has some experience with basic animation on a Lightbox. He wants to learn more about animation as a part time activity but hates the scanning part of his workflow.

01//SCENARIO HARISH His existing workflow (in a traditional light-box based environment) is: Draw Flip and check movement Scan Check movement in software Make corrections by Inserting/Deleting frames

01//SCENARIO HARISH He is looking for a change in the workflow without having to spend too much time in learning new softwares and going through huge operating manuals. Enter the Lunchbox.

01//SCENARIO HARISH Harishs New Workflow:

PROPOSED DESIGN & WORKSPACE

PROPOSED DESIGNDIMENTIONS

55cm 32 cm

23cm 8cm 41cm

02//SCENARIO HARISHCAMERA POWER

Focus

Zoom

Light Select

Light Main

x

YES

NO

Harish sets up his workspace and turns on main power, and the lights, subsequently selecting if he wants top, bottom or both lights to be on. He then sets up the camera zoom and focus. (All these tasks have been grouped together according to the sequence of use commonly found during user study. These are one time tasks and hence have been located at the top right corner.)

00002

x2

03//SCENARIO HARISHCAFocus

LIVE IN/ CAPTURE VIEW OUT

Harish then continues to set up his paper and other stationary that he needs and finally draws his first frame. He hits capture to capture the frame in the embedded lunchbox present inside his light-box. The screen changes to 00002 and indicates that it is automatically capturing x2 (repeating every frame twice).

The feedback for the frame he just captured is shown on screen for 2 seconds giving him a visual confirmation of the frame that was captured.

00020

x2CAFocus

LIVE IN/ CAPTURE VIEW OUT

Harish continues drawing and capturing new frames.

Static View

00020

x2

04//SCENARIO HARISH CAFocus

LIVE IN/ CAPTURE VIEW OUT

Once he is done with the take, he decides to review the frames he shot. He presses Live View to switch to editing mode from the live feed being shown on his monitor.

05//SCENARIO HARISH

XFRAME MULTIPLY

YES

NO

x2

On pressing Live View, the editing panel on the right side of the lunch box lights up and gets activated. He presses the play/pause button to play the movie clip he just shot. He can manually scrub through the take using the scroll wheel present on the side. He can change the frame multiply and delete frames by pressing X.

Playing

25fps

[0000000020]

Paused

00015XFRAME MULTIPLY

06//SCENARIO HARISH

YES

NO

x2

He pauses the movie since he sees a jitter at frame 15.

Delete this frame?

07//SCENARIO HARISH

XFRAME MULTIPLY

YES

NO

x2

He decides to delete the frame. A confirmation appears on the light-box screen and the monitor in front of him.

Paused

00015XFRAME MULTIPLY

08//SCENARIO HARISH

YES

NO

x2

Frame Inserted

00016

09//SCENARIO HARISHx2LIVE IN/ CAPTURE VIEW OUT CAFocus

He redraws the frame and inserts it in the take by simply pressing capture while frame 00015 was selected.

Paused

00015LIVE IN/ CAPTURE VIEW OUT

10//SCENARIO HARISHCAFocus

Long press

He decides to overwrite another frame. For that he just has to go back to frame 00015 and press capture for a longer time.

Overwrite frame? 00015LIVE IN/ CAPTURE VIEW OUT

11//SCENARIO HARISHCAFocus

Long press

He will be given with an option to overwrite the frame. On pressing YES from the edit panel, he can choose to overwrite the frame.

Paused

00015XFRAME MULTIPLY

12//SCENARIO HARISH

YES

NO

x2

XFRAME MULTIPLY

YES

NO

x2

Playing

25fps

[0000000020]

Finally he sets the In-Out (first frame and last frame) of the movie by pressing the In/Out button when the first and last frames are selected respectively.