Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Developing Personality in Digital Character Design using Motion Capture, Wearable and Live Coding Technologies, applied to IMAGINE (Interactive Media, Animation, Games, Interactive Networked Environments) Narrative Worlds

Is it possible to provide a new design framework to practitioners, adaptable to digital characters as a currency over different digital media? We tackle this question in a Research Project titled IMAGINE MOCAP funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) and undertaken by Researchers from the University of the Aegean, the Ionian University and the University of the Peloponnese.

IMAGINE stands for Interactive Media, Animation, Games, Interactive Networked Environments, four digital platforms providing room for experimentation in image, interaction, and sound design. We’ve experimented with Motion Capture, Wearables and Live Coding technologies to render personality in digital characters.

In the proposed panel IMAGINE Character Personality Design, we are willing to share with the Digital Creative community the findings from our research in designing  the personality of digital characters in transmedia worlds.

IMAGINE Character Personality Design- Panel topics