Believable Characters

El-Nasr, Magy Seif; Bishko, Leslie; Zammitto, Veronica; Nixon, Michael; Vasiliakos, Athanasios V.; Wei, Huaxin

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-89024-1_22

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“…Participant 3 was also interesting in seeing the 'weight' of the animated figure and how the weight affected the qualities of movement. While weight has always been a difficult feature to design in animation and believable characters [17], we are researching opportunities to access 'illusions' of weight through representation. By focusing on the dynamics of movement, it does not matter what the still form or shape of the body is, how the limbs relate to each other or what the precise body's 'points in space' are.…”

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Moment by Moment

Carlson

Schiphorst

Cochrane

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition

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While mobile authoring applications are proliferating, choreographic tools that support the generation and transformation of user-created movement 'samples' are less readily available. iDanceForms is a novel mobile choreographic application that generates unique movement choices through a camera stillframing technique to provoke movement catalysts. In keeping with the principles of whole body interaction (and principles of 'defamiliarization'), the design of iDanceForms supports opportunities for surprise, unexpected movement choices and meaning-making. This paper presents data collected from an observational study of choreographers using iDanceForms. In the study we found that choreographers appropriated the intended functionality of iDanceForms to create highly individualized and unexpected movement sequences. They found inspiration in exploring unexpected framing of form and content, which resulted in creative explorations that produced unique movement possibilities provided by the system. Drawing from our observations we discuss possible roles that sensor-enabled mobile devices could play in movement generation through personal meaning-making, creative choreographic strategies and discovery, and in provoking whole body interaction through principles of 'defamiliarization' in the context of HCI.

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Moment by Moment

Carlson

Schiphorst

Cochrane

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition

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“…While animation principles permit to impose a specific style of movement (such as in cartoons) they lack the depth and richness of Labanotation in exposing not only functional aspects of movement but their detailed expression [4]. However, animation principles do not yet form the basis of a theory which can lead to formal models, ease of simulation and computational implementations [9]. Similarly, Labanotation lacks complete computational models, as the representation and analysis of qualia in the notions of Effort and Shape remain very challenging, but the theory is more developed and progress is being made [8,30].…”

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Point-based Medialness for Movement Computing

Leymarie

Aparajeya

MacGillivray

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Movement and Computing

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We introduce the idea of using a perception-based medial point description of a biological form (such as a 2D profile of a moving animal) as a basis for movement computing which delivers computational schemes to automatically annotate movement and be capable of producing meaningful qualitative descriptions. We distinguish interior from exterior shape representation. Interior medialness is used to characterise deformations from straightness, corners and necks, while exterior medialness identifies the main concavities and inlands which are useful to verify parts extent and reason about articulation and movement. We define an interior dominant point as a well localised peak value in medialness representation, while an exterior dominant point is evaluated by identifying a region of concavity sub-tended by a minimum angular support. Furthermore, significant convex points are extracted from the object's form to further characterise the elongation of parts. We propose that our evaluated feature points are sufficiently representative, as a basis for shape characterisation, to address many of the goals of movement computing.

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“…Francisco e Garone (2013) argumentam que um personagem é uma pessoa ou criatura fictícia idealizada em uma obra, e que a área de Character Design deve se preocupar com pelo menos estas características: expressão corporal, apresentação visual, psicológico e indumentária. Frosi e Steffen(2015) citam que os personagens sempre possuem a combinação das dimensões mentais e físicas, e que nos jogos digitais a dimensão física prevalece, uma vez que o jogador pensará pelos personagens na maior parte do tempo. Citando o game designer Jesse Schell, indicam que o processo de criação de um personagem tem de considerar sua função, seu psicológico, expressões faciais, voz e ainda outras características como status e círculo social deste.…”

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Análise Dos Personagens Brasileiros Da Franquia Street Fighter - Identidade E Representação Nos Videogames.

Arrivabene

Cordeiro

Sousa

2019

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No contexto da pós-modernidade, a identidade individual é ativamente construída a partir de relações de afeto e consumo, como por exemplo, o consumo de mídia. Os jogos digitais possibilitam que jogadores expressem-se e sintam-se representados através de seus protagonistas controláveis. Através de uma análise semiótica peirceana de três personagens, o presente trabalho propõe-se a investigar a evolução da representação do Brasil e do brasileiro na franquia japonesa Street Fighter ao longo dos 30 anos da série. Elucida ao final como cada um destes qualifica e simboliza o povo brasileiro a partir de diferentes características nacionais incutidas no imaginário estrangeiro.

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Believable Characters

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Moment by Moment

Point-based Medialness for Movement Computing

Análise Dos Personagens Brasileiros Da Franquia Street Fighter - Identidade E Representação Nos Videogames.

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