The aMotion toolkit: painting with affective motion textures

摘要: Visual artists and designers frequently use carefully crafted motion textures -- patterns of ambient throughout a scene to imbue the atmosphere with affect. The design such visual cues is an elusive topic that has been studied by painters, theatre directors, scenic designers, lighting filmmakers, producers, for years. Recent research shows have capacity be both perceptually efficient powerfully evocative, but adding them scenes requires careful manipulation "by hand": no tools currently exist facilitate this integration. In paper we describe development aMotion toolkit: palette composable "brushes" image video based on our affective research. We discuss insights from on-going qualitative study professional effects into how capabilities can enhance their current practice