Designing characters that are both realistic and consistent across different poses, expressions, and contexts can feel like an uphill battle, even for seasoned AI creators. To help make this task ...

The first step to designing a character is to understand its purpose in the application or scene. For example, if this character is to be created for a first-person training program, you may only need ...

Character models are possibly the most important aspect of a graphical MMO. After all, the avatars that we create and play through are us in many ways, so they need to look and feel like extensions of ...

Yesterday at GDC, Activision Blizzard director of graphics research and development Javier van der Pahlen and researcher Jorge Jimenez presented the research they and their colleagues Etienne Danvoye, ...