Esquisse

Esquisse is a web application built with React and Typescript to facilitate the production of Vector Graphics illustrations. Esquisse proposes interaction techniques to ease the manipulation of 3D objects and a custom vector graphics render engine.

Web App

Open Esquisse Web App

Features

• Supported formats: gltf, glb, obj
• Load/Save scenes
• Multiple selection support
• Undo/Redo
• Customize svg rendering
• Embed png/jpg/svg textures on objects
• Control skeletons via Inverse Kinematics
• Control skeletons via Camera with tensor flow (in progress)

References and links

• Esquisse as a Blender Add-on Github repo

Papers

• Antoine Axel, Malacria Sylvain, Marquardt Nicolai and Casiez Géry. Esquisse: Using 3D Models Staging to Facilitate the Creation of Vector-Based Trace Figures, Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2019. https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02293837/document

Objects

• Thanks to Blender for the character models Vincent and Rain