Title :
Growing on the inside: Soulful characters for video games
Author :
Bidarra, Rafael ; Schaap, Robert ; Goossens, Kim
Author_Institution :
Comput. Graphics Group, Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands
Abstract :
Procedural generation techniques effectively help to reduce the huge content production costs in current video games. In a similar way, we propose to combine a rich internal state model with procedural facial expression generation as a flexible and natural step to solve the proverbial lack of expressiveness in game characters.
Keywords :
computer games; cost reduction; emotion recognition; face recognition; content production cost; game character; internal state model; procedural facial expression generation; procedural generation technique; video game; Computational intelligence; Conferences; Drugs; Facial animation; Games; Mood;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), 2010 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Dublin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6295-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6296-4
DOI :
10.1109/ITW.2010.5593335
