Abstract: Currently the cartoon wave animations are mainly created by hand.The animators need to re-draw the cartoon wave series if there are some changes on the wave form or the speed of the wave movements,which is a very time consuming task.In this paper we propose a model for automatically generating 3D cartoon ocean wave animations.Specifically,we first construct a series of cartoon ocean wave profiles by using Bezier curves.Then we construct each individual ocean wave by selecting some profiles and interpolating them with the spline.The wave foam is modeled by interpolating the control points with the spline based on the hand-drawn samples.To render the foam,we construct some belt-like surfaces on the wave peaks and map the foam textures onto them.Our model can preserve the handcrafted look of the cartoon ocean waves and offers flexible control over the speed of the wave movement,the distance between two neighboring waves and the size of the foams.The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been demonstrated in the experiments.