Profile
Currently, I'm working as
- Freelance programmer (3d interactive graphics and 2d image effects)
- Part-time researcher in Igarashi CREST, at The University of Tokyo
E-mail: nakajima (at) ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
CV: pdf
Research Interest
Computer science as a creative way to express what is in your brain.
Especially for illustration and animation.
Projects
- "Offline Painted Media for Digital Animation Authoring"
- "Interactive Normal Map Generation for Adding Shading Effects to Cartoon Images"
- Master thesis, The University of Tokyo, Grad. School of IS&T, Dept. of Computer Science, March 2012
- "An Easy-to-Use Software to Add Shading Effects on 2D Illustrations"
- Selected as the Exploratory IT Human Resources Project, IPA, December 2010 (link)
- Certified as a super creator, December 2011 (link)
- Project Results (Japanese)
- "A User Interface for Designing Artistic Rendering Effects by Using a Lit Sphere"
- Bachelor thesis, The University of Tokyo, Dept. of Information Science, March 2010
Publications
International Conference
- Makoto Nakajima, Daisuke Sakamoto, and Takeo Igarashi. "Offline Painted Media for Digital Animation Authoring," in Proc. CHI '14, pp. 321-330, 2014.
Domestic Journal
- Makoto Nakajima, Daisuke Sakamoto and Takeo Igarashi. “アナログ画材を用いたアニメーションの作成を支援するシステム," IPSJ Journal, 56-4, 2015.
Domestic Conference
- Makoto Nakajima and Takeo Igarashi. "アナログ画材を利用したアニメーションの生成を支援するシステム," VC/GCAD Symposium 2013.
- Makoto Nakajima, Kenshi Takayama, and Takeo Igarashi. "Surface Normal Estimation as Developable Surface from Contour Lines of Garments," VC/GCAD Symposium 2011. [pdf (Japanese)]
Assignments
Webpages created for university class' assignments.
- Computer Graphics (2011 Winter, Prof.Nishita)
- Media Informatics (2011 Winter, Prof.Igarashi)
- Advanced CG (2010 Winter, Prof.Durikovic)
- Computer Graphics (2009 Summer, Prof.Nishita)