Reliably Conveying Creator Intent with Free-Form Sketch Storyboards

Determine how informal free-form sketch storyboards can reliably convey a creator’s animation intent across the entire dynamic content authoring process, including sketch capture, interpretation, and generation of motion graphics outputs.

Background

The paper investigates using free-form sketch storyboards as inputs for generating motion graphics via vision–LLMs. While such sketches are widely used for early ideation, their inherent ambiguity and informality complicate reliable interpretation across an end-to-end authoring workflow.

This uncertainty motivates the system design and user studies presented in the work, which explore clarification and refinement mechanisms to align AI interpretation with user intent. The quoted sentence frames the foundational unresolved question that the paper seeks to probe.