Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Non-photorealistic animation and rendering

Welcome to NPAR 2002, the second meeting of the International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, held June 3-5, 2002 in Annecy, France in conjunction with the Annecy International Animation Festival. This symposium brings together a community of computer scientists, animators, and visual artists who share an interest in using computers to create expressive, artistic imagery.The first symposium, NPAR 2000, was a great success. Practitioners and researchers gathered from all over the world to discuss cutting-edge work in stylized depiction, to explore this confluence of technology and art, and to define and shape the field. This year we hope to continue this process and identify the newest challenges and opportunities in non-photorealism.One would expect see a broadening in any healthy new field. Indeed, in these proceedings we are pleased to include technical papers that not only describe impressive new solutions to known problems but also address new problems. The 18 papers printed here were chosen from among 40 submissions, each of which was distributed for review by two or more program committee members as well as a number of auxiliary reviewers, depending on the topic and difficulty of review.