A Workshop on Creativity support for Hand-drawn Art Practices (CHAP2025 Paris)
Connecting France and Japan, animation and comics, and research and practice.

Public seminar:
Inria Paris or Online (Zoom)
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, February 10, 2025

About

This event brings together researchers and artists from Japan and France, two countries where the culturally rich yet distinct practices of anime, animation, manga, and bande dessinée are deeply rooted and actively pursued. Through presentations, lightning talks, and panel discussions, the workshop aims to deepen mutual understanding of hand-drawn artistic practices and explore the potential of building creativity support tools from a Human-Computer Interaction perspective.

This event seeks to deepen understanding of the production workflows of hand-drawn visual arts such as anime and manga, which have evolved to meet the demands of commercial art. It also broadens its scope to address activities such as translation, which are essential for distributing content across cultural boundaries. By gathering experts in industry and academia on these diverse topics, the event aims to serve as a starting point for comprehensive research into artistic practices—an area that has traditionally been challenging to explore within the narrower confines of computer science.

本イベントは、アニメとアニメーション、漫画とバンド=デシネという、共通点の多い、しかし異なる文化活動が共に盛んな日本とフランスの研究者・アーティストによって開催されます。招待講演、ライトニングトーク、パネルセッションを通して、手描きの芸術実践について相互理解を深め、情報技術による創造性支援の可能性、とくにHuman-Computer Interaction研究の観点で創造性支援ツールが果たせる可能性を探求します。

本イベントでは、アニメや漫画などの表現形態が商業芸術としての要請に応えるかたちで育んできた制作ワークフローについての理解を深めるとともに、文化圏を超えてコンテンツを流通させるための、翻訳をはじめとする活動にまで射程を広げて扱います。これにより、これまで狭義のコンピュータ科学では難しかった芸術活動の総体的な研究のきっかけとすることを目指します。

Cet événement vise à rassembler chercheur·euse·s et artistes du Japon et de France, deux pays où les pratiques de l'animation/anime et bande dessinée/manga sont riches, actives et profondément ancrées dans la culture populaire et artistique. A travers des présentations et table rondes, ce workshop a pour but d'approfondir la compréhension mutuelle entre ces pratiques artistiques centrées sur le dessin à la main, et d'explorer la possibilité de construire des outils supportant ces activités créatives d'un point de vue Interaction Humain-Machine.

Cet événement cherche à étendre la connaissance du processus de production des arts visuels dessinés à la main tels que l'anime et le manga, dont l'évolution répond aux contraintes commerciales de leur diffusion. Le sujet du workshop pourra aussi être étendu à des activités connexes telles que la traduction, qui est essentielle pour la distribution de contenu au-delà des frontières linguistique et culturelle. En réunissant des experts issus de milieux industriels et académiques de diverses disciplines, cet événement devrait servir de point de départ pour une recherche exhaustive, centrée sur ces pratiques artistiques — domaine traditionnellement ardu à explorer dans le cadre de l'informatique.

This event is part of the PEPR ICCARE project and Japan-based researchers and practitioners are invited by AIST. Please refer to the list of supporters for more details.

Registration

The public seminar will be held in hybrid format, and registration is required to attend it.
Please note that the number of onsite attendees is limited and seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Schedule

The workshop spans three days, beginning with a public seminar on the first day (Monday), followed by two invitation-only workshops focusing on animation (Tuesday) and comics (Wednesday), respectively.

Public Seminar: Monday, February 10, 2025

Please note that the talk titles are tentative.

1:00 PM
Doors Open
1:30 PM
Welcome and Introduction
1:45 PM
How manga is made ― mixing digital and analog practices
Akira Shinohara (comic artist)
2:05 PM
How anime is made and the tools behind it
Marc Salvati (OLM Digital Inc.)
2:35 PM
Building digital tools to gain unique styles from analog practices
Baku Hashimoto (visual artist)
2:55 PM
Lightning talks
Various researchers and artists
3:30 PM
Coffee Break
3:50 PM
Creating, translating, and delivering cultural content
Benoit Huot (Glénat)
4:10 PM
Understanding manga content for translation
Noji Hiroshi (Mantra Inc.)
4:30 PM
Playful interfaces for creativity support ― coloring 2D drawings
Amal Dev Parakkat (Télécom Paris)
4:50 PM
Panel discussion: CG and HCI, research and practice, France and Japan, collaboration opportunities
5:25 PM
Closing Remarks

Workshops: Tuesday and Wednesday, February 11-12, 2025

The public seminar is followed by two invitation-only workshops focusing on animation (Tuesday) and comics (Wednesday), respectively. If you are interested in participating in the workshops, please feel free to contact the organizer.

Please note that the schedule is subject to change. For the most current information, refer to the Google Docs shared with attendees.

10:00 AM
Doors Open
10:15 AM
Hands-on experience and talks by experts
12:00 PM
Lunch break
1:30 PM
Panel by experts
2:20 PM
Coffee break
2:40 PM
Group discussion
4:00 PM
Reports from group discussion
4:30 PM
Closing Remarks

Venues

Public Seminar

Workshops

Supporters

This event is held as part of the PEPR ICCARE project.

Japan-based researchers and practitioners are invited by AIST.

The public seminar is also supported by ACM SIGCHI Local Chapters including Paris and Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapters, as well as Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris (パリ日本文化会館).