The purpose of our research is to discover the creation process of users who do not already have high degrees of animation skills, and to provide a compatible authoring system that augments their process. It is very important that authoring systems have knowledge about a user's creation process. However, it is difficult to acquire this knowledge since it can vary depending on a user's preferred creation style. This paper proposes a new user model that considers both creation style and process, and explores an easy-to-use authoring interface design. We classify users with similar creation styles into clusters using a movie scenario structure of scenes and shots including events in the scenario text created by the users. Finally, an authoring interface based on the proposed user model is presented, and future research topics that must be addressed in order to achieve easy-to-use authoring are assessed.
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