A method, apparatus and computer program for capturing the motion of a first
moving
object in a cartoon and retargeting this motion onto the motion of a second moving
object. In the invention a digitized video of a cartoon having the first moving
object is input and a user is permitted to select from the digitized video a plurality
of key shapes of the first moving object as the first moving moves in the digitized
video. The motion of the first moving object is captured as motion parameter data
by performing a transform of the motion of the first moving object according to
each of the key shapes. Thereafter, the motion of the first moving object is retargeted
to the second moving object by mapping the motion parameter data onto the second
moving object.
