Patent Document ID: 5519826
Application ID: 08236634
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for developing stop motion animation sequences for an object positioned on a surface comprising: a lighting system including at least one beauty light and at least one back light, wherein said beauty light illuminates said object to produce a beauty image of said object and wherein said back light illuminates said object to produce a silhouette image of said object; an image capture system which receives said beauty and said silhouette images and electronically captures said beauty and silhouette images respectively as a beauty shot and a matte shot, said beauty shot comprising an image of said object against a first background wherein said image occupies a first position in said beauty shot, and said matte shot comprising an image of said silhouette of said object against a second background wherein said silhouette occupies a first position in said matte shot an defines a first region of said matte shot; and a graphics processing system which receives said beauty shot and said matte shot from said image capture system, and combines at least a portion of said matte shot with at least a portion of said beauty shot in a predetermined relationship, so as to produce a final beauty shot comprising a uniform background and a portion of said beauty shot wherein said final beauty shot is configured to be one of a plurality of final beauty shots that comprise a stop motion animation sequence.