Category: Thesis

Continue to revise the paper which talks more clearly about the characters and technology part

This week I finished compiling the references
There were some very interesting articles that I thought I could quote in my article

During this week I have largely defined the structure of my thesis
and the title of a sub-section

This week’s paper
The advice given by my teacher is that it is important to establish a question that can be answered by a viable finding that is supported by appropriate sources.
So I may need to identify some specific questions to tell, similar to how important are personality and story? Why are these two aspects important to characterisation and what is the potential impact of automatic expression generation technology on the development of character design? How might they provide more creativity and create more depth to characters? And so on and so forth with questions like
So I need to refine my thesis further

This week, according to the thesis topic I want to describe, I searched for references in UAL Library and Google Scholar.

I am mainly looking for articles on 3D character design, and how to more accurately express the character characteristics I want to reflect when creating characters. Therefore, I am still looking for helpful evidence and references for my thesis

Reference

1.Lasseter, J. (1987, August). Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation. In Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (pp. 35-44).

2.Sloan, R. J. (2015). Virtual Character Design. Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press.

3.Ryu, C. S., & Hur, C. W. (2011). A 3D Game Character Design Using MAYA. In Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference (pp. 300-303). The Korea Institute of Information and Commucation Engineering.

4.Kuntjara, H., & Almanfaluthi, B. (2017). Character design in games analysis of character design theory. Journal of Games, Game Art, and Gamification, 2(2).

5.Crossley, K. (2014). Character design from the ground up. Ilex Press.

6.Bancroft, T. (2016). Creating characters with personality. Watson-Guptill.

7.Li, L., Zhu, W., & Hu, H. (2021). Multivisual animation character 3D model design method based on VR technology. Complexity, 2021, 1-12.

8.Power, P. (2009). Animated expressions: Expressive style in 3D computer graphic narrative animation. Animation, 4(2), 107-129.

9.Alexander, O., Rogers, M., Lambeth, W., Chiang, M., & Debevec, P. (2009). The digital emily project: photoreal facial modeling and animation. In Acm siggraph 2009 courses (pp. 1-15).

10.Totten, C. (2012). Game character creation with blender and unity. John Wiley & Sons.

11.Maraffi, C. (2003). Maya character creation: modeling and animation controls. New Riders.

This week I’ve identified a few things, and I’d like to start with the following: 3D character design is a very complex job,

1. Pay attention to the appearance of the character: in particular, the character’s facial expression, body composition and clothing;

2. Focus on the action of the role: design the action to interpret the character of the role, so that the role has more personality;

3. Focus on the background of the character: When designing the background of the character, we should consider the history, career, family background and other information of the character, so as to provide rich content for the character;

4. Consider the function of the character: According to the theme of the game and the function of the character, you can design a more reasonable character;

5. Focus on the performance of the role: the performance of the role should be close to the character of the role, and pay attention to the fluidity of the movement, so that the performance is more realistic.

The theme I want to study is the character part in 3D animation production. Since I am in charge of the character production part this time, I have a lot of new understandings. In the character production, the audience understands the role and the Angle observed by the producer is different, so I want to discuss this point about the character characteristics through the paper

So I found some papers and books that I could refer to by searching.

1.Baran, I., & Popović, J. (2007). Automatic rigging and animation of 3d characters. ACM Transactions on graphics (TOG), 26(3), 72-es.

2.Roberts, S. (2012). Character animation fundamentals: developing skills for 2D and 3D character animation. Routledge.

3.Lasseter, J. (1987, August). Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation. In Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (pp. 35-44).

Through the topic selection of last semester, I noticed the problems that happened last time. The topic of the thesis last semester was too broad for me to grasp the topic well, so I will focus on the topic selection and scope of the thesis this time, so that I can better grasp the paper this time

Therefore, I began to think about whether I could focus my thesis on animation characters. Because I was in charge of 3D characters through the cooperation project of the school, I wanted to improve my thesis by starting with the design of characters and the suitable characteristics

Because the shaping of a character is not only the result of production, but also can clearly show the character’s personality traits and so on through the character’s body parts and some decorations