WEBVTT 00:03.002 --> 00:10.143 Flatting is a stage in digital comic colorization for filling regions with base constant colors before adding further effects. 00:10.143 --> 00:14.280 This stage is important for making high-quality color comics. 00:15.048 --> 00:20.754 However, this stage is also very time-consuming, labor-intensive, and not where artists feel creative. 00:20.754 --> 00:28.495 Flatting is tedious because converting a line drawing to an industry-standard level of flatting cannot be easily done using basic tools 00:28.495 --> 00:32.632 such as the fill bucket, brush, lasso, or magic wand. 00:35.835 --> 00:43.443 Artists must manually fix inaccurate region boundaries and dirty bucketing results caused by anti-aliased line drawings. 00:46.746 --> 00:52.886 We proposed FlatMagic, an AI-driven comic flatting tool integrated into Adobe Photoshop. 00:52.886 --> 00:59.959 Our pre-trained neural network generates high-quality flatting regions that can be filled with simple bucket interactions 01:02.595 --> 01:08.435 For example, here are the un-colored regions suggested by FlatMagic. 01:08.435 --> 01:13.273 Users only need to click to colorize regions with the bucket fill tool. 01:13.273 --> 01:17.710 In some cases, FlatMagic's suggested regions may be imperfect. 01:17.710 --> 01:22.215 FlatMagic anticipates this by also providing finer-grained regions. 01:22.215 --> 01:26.052 With a few more clicks, artists can choose the right colors. 01:27.587 --> 01:34.594 If the finer regions still aren't right, artists can tweak the region boundary with a drawing interaction and then fill it. 01:40.033 --> 01:46.840 The video shows how FlatMagic can significantly accelerate users’ flatting while still keeps the high quality. 01:46.840 --> 01:55.782 Through the two rounds of studies, we found using FlatMagic significantly reduced a professionals' effort by nearly 30%, compared to their current best practice 01:55.782 --> 02:00.086 For more details, please check out our paper. Thanks for watching the video.