Character Animation Research Articles

Dogs and the Politics of Il|legal Border-Crossing: Suad Amiry’s Sharon and My Mother-in-Law and Marios Piperides’s Smuggling Hendrix

ABSTRACT This article merges border and animal studies through a comparative study of Suad Amiry’s memoir Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (2005, Palestine) and Marios Piperides’s film Smuggling Hendrix (2018, Cyprus). Engaging with the concepts of border aesthetics, border logic, and border law, the article draws attention to the function of animal characters (dogs) and illustrates their becoming platforms of anti-border politics. Both narratives explore the difference between human and animal experiences of borders and border-crossing, and through the fictionalized adventures of Nura and Jimi render borders simultaneously penetrable and comical. Their ability to legally or illegally cross the same borders their human owners are confronted with equips authors with ample opportunity for sharp political critique, largely invested in exposing the absurdity borders generate. Assigning these dogs with different legal statuses (Nura has a passport and crosses the border legally while Jimi crosses underground), Amiry and Piperides scrutinize the association between illegal border-crossing and resistance, demonstrating how it is only the contestation of border law which alone undermines border logic. The article thus exposes the complex tension between the political gain produced by the politicization of these animals vis-à-vis their becoming border-crossers, and the implications of this gesture for animals.

Buku dongeng Sunda sebagai literatur budaya pada buku Roesdi djeung Misnem

Sunda dialect is a local dialect from West Java Province that has to preserve. One of the learning materials can be conveyed through storytelling. Roesdi djeung Misnem book is a classic Sunda book that contains Sunda tales. Pabukon Ngadongeng Community Book Corner provides service for this book to material storytelling. This research aims to know the Sunda storytelling book as cultural literature to children in Roesdi djeung Misnem book at Pabukon Ngadongeng Community Book Corner through analysis of story meaning, kind of storytelling, characterization reader, and storytelling as a learning language. The research method used a qualitative approach through a narrative literature review. Roesdi djeung Misnem book has 19 tales with 13 themes from the meaning story: prudence, working together, smartness, gratitude, stinginess, loving, self-measurement, arrogance, brave, trust, honesty, good attitude, and glorifying parents. This kind of storytelling consists of tales with animal and human characters. Animal tales total seven tales, and human figures tales total 12 tales. In characterization reader, Roesdi djeung Misnem book can be read to children over nine. Sunda tales in this book can train to learn the Sunda language. So, librarians or Managers of Community Book Corner can design Sunda dialect learning materials through storytelling as an activity for local dialect revitalization.

TUTORIAL PEMBELAJARAN DALAM MEMBUAT PERBEDAAN GAYA GAMBAR KARAKTER KARTUN DAN ANIME

Cartoons are television shows in the form of moving images that were discovered in 1883, as the times progressed, cartoons evolved not only in the entertainment world but also in the world of marketing, this attracted illustrators to create something unique to attract people's attention, from the storyline to the characters. Characters are important extras in film production, especially in animation to clarify the information that will be conveyed in the film. The more characters that are created, the more drawing styles are produced, even every artist has their own drawing style. For this reason, the world of drawing is starting to learn techniques on how to draw, to create something unique but proportional, one of which is drawing designs character. This article discusses the steps in creating and making cartoon and anime characters.

Deep Learning-Based Cost-Effective and Responsive Robot for Autism Treatment

Recent studies state that, for a person with autism spectrum disorder, learning and improvement is often seen in environments where technological tools are involved. A robot is an excellent tool to be used in therapy and teaching. It can transform teaching methods, not just in the classrooms but also in the in-house clinical practices. With the rapid advancement in deep learning techniques, robots became more capable of handling human behaviour. In this paper, we present a cost-efficient, socially designed robot called ‘Tinku’, developed to assist in teaching special needs children. ‘Tinku’ is low cost but is full of features and has the ability to produce human-like expressions. Its design is inspired by the widely accepted animated character ‘WALL-E’. Its capabilities include offline speech processing and computer vision—we used light object detection models, such as Yolo v3-tiny and single shot detector (SSD)—for obstacle avoidance, non-verbal communication, expressing emotions in an anthropomorphic way, etc. It uses an onboard deep learning technique to localize the objects in the scene and uses the information for semantic perception. We have developed several lessons for training using these features. A sample lesson about brushing is discussed to show the robot’s capabilities. Tinku is cute, and loaded with lots of features, and the management of all the processes is mind-blowing. It is developed in the supervision of clinical experts and its condition for application is taken care of. A small survey on the appearance is also discussed. More importantly, it is tested on small children for the acceptance of the technology and compatibility in terms of voice interaction. It helps autistic kids using state-of-the-art deep learning models. Autism Spectral disorders are being increasingly identified today’s world. The studies show that children are prone to interact with technology more comfortably than a with human instructor. To fulfil this demand, we presented a cost-effective solution in the form of a robot with some common lessons for the training of an autism-affected child.

Доктор Сьюз о зверях и людях: опыт карикатуриста и иллюстрированные сказки 1930-х–1950-х годов

The paper deals with the first decades in the work of Dr. Seuss (the pseudonym of Theodor Geisel, 1904–1991), one of the most prominent children’s authors of the 20th century. Seuss was not only the author of children’s tales, but also a talented artist who illustrated his own books and whose manner was deeply influenced by his 15-year experience as a cartoonist. In 1920–1940s he worked for different print media, from humor magazines to a political newspaper, drew cartoons and commercial advertisements. Our aim is to study the mutual influence of Seuss-thecartoonist and Seuss-the-writer and illustrator. Our main focus is the “bestiary” of Dr. Seuss, the animal characters of his cartoons and tales. Seuss created his first eccentric animals in the series of cartoons and anecdotes for a weekly satirical magazine Judge in 1927; he blended the Victorian tradition of nonsense and the features of newspaper cartoons and comic strips of the first decades of the 20th century. The motif of eccentricity is developed in the first children’s tales that Seuss published at the turn of the 1930–40s. The same motif is significantly transformed in his political cartoons for a daily newspaper PM in 1941–1942. Seuss puts the familiar animal images into the context of World War II and gives them different political meaning, from the totalitarian insanity of the Axis leaders to the carelessness and blindness of the “America First” supporters. Interestingly enough, Dr. Seuss used in his political cartoons some plot elements of his tales for children, as well as his old sketches and drawings. In its turn, his post-war tales are peculiar parables that absorb the political issues of the previous historical period. Creating his images of tyrants, Seuss makes use of the techniques of political cartoons. He puts his human and animal characters into the situations of tyranny or isolationism, that can be overcome with the help of common sense.

Олениха и медведица: малоизвестный фольклорный сюжет

Folk narratives about two women who practice gathering, one of whom treacherously murders the other, and about the victim’s children who kill the murderer’s children and run away, are recorded in the Pacific region of the United States, in Chaco, in Eastern Indonesia, in Tibet, in East Africa (only one text) and (without the motif of killing children) in Western Siberia. The characters are mostly animal characters who behave like humans. There is no doubt that specialists who study cultures of particular regions are familiar with the relevant publications, but the transcontinental parallels for such stories have never been researched. The American versions demonstrate an area correlation with the Western Stemmed Tradition that is considered now to be as old as the Clovis tradition (13,250–12,800 cal BP) if not earlier. If so, the spread of the tale in question should be dated to the time of the initial settlement of America. The sets of motifs in the Indonesian versions are slightly closer to the American ones, while the Tibetan sets share more motifs with the Siberian tradition and have American parallels as well. In addition to the presented materials in the light of data on the settlement of the world by modern man, the author addresses questions of the genres of traditional narratives.

Образ Красной Птицы в китайской культуре и фольклоре

The image of the Zhu-niao (Red Bird) is familiar to specialists in the history and mytholo-gy of ancient China. This article examines the origin of the image and the development of the concept of Zhu-niao in Chinese culture and philosophy. The aim of the study is to analyze the semantics and symbolism of the Red Bird image, to establish the difference between the notions of the Red Bird and the Phoenix, to explain the projections of the Red Bird image in Chinese ornamental culture and folklore. The novelty of the study lies in the systematization and generalization of the meanings behind the Red Bird image in Chinese culture. The author concludes that the image of Zhu-niao represents Chinese primitive ancestors’ worship of the totem of the bird, totem of the sun, and totem of the constellation. The semantics of the Red Bird image in Chinese culture and folklore is classified into three categories. The Red Bird is primarily an ornithomor-phic symbol of one of the sides of the world: Zhu-niao (South) is among thefour zoomorphic symbols along with Qing-lun (East), Bai-hu (West), and Xuan-wu (North). The Red Bird is also a symbol of good luck and demonstrates the Chinese people’s idea of praying for good luck. In addition, the image of the Red Bird has become one of the four symbols of Taoism. Although the Red Bird image has different symbolic meanings, its semantics does not go beyond the context of Chinese traditional culture and national psychology. The practical significance of the study lies in the opening up of prospects for research into semantics and symbol-ism of mythical images in Chinese culture. The results of the study can be used in research on Chinese mythological images as well as animal characters in Chinese folklore and literary works.

HEALINGA Brief Analysis on the Artistic Features and Functions of Animal Characters in Healing Animation

As an art type with a typical missionary function, healing animation has become an essential creative type with its unique spiritual soothing feature. The healing animation that soothes our minds and gives us persistent comfort can leave audiences in a positive mood and spiritual solace. Today, all kinds of animal characters are increasing in animation; the shaping of characters plays a vital role in contributing to healing animation. This article analyzed the artistic features and functions of animals in animation works of healing systems and interpreted the roles of these animals, aiming at laying the foundation for making more touching animation works.

Artificial intelligence for video game visualization, advancements, benefits and challenges.

In recent years, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed remarkable progress and its applications have extended to the realm of video games. The incorporation of AI in video games enhances visual experiences, optimizes gameplay and fosters more realistic and immersive environments. In this review paper, we systematically explore the diverse applications of AI in video game visualization, encompassing machine learning algorithms for character animation, terrain generation and lighting effects following the PRISMA guidelines as our review methodology. Furthermore, we discuss the benefits, challenges and ethical implications associated with AI in video game visualization as well as the potential future trends. We anticipate that the future of AI in video gaming will feature increasingly sophisticated and realistic AI models, heightened utilization of machine learning and greater integration with other emerging technologies leading to more engaging and personalized gaming experiences.

AI Animation Character Behavior Modeling and Action Recognition in Virtual Studio

AI Animation Character Behavior Modeling and Action Recognition in Virtual Studio

Зоонимы, обозначающие оленевых в алтайской лингвокультуре

The article is devoted to the linguistic and cultural specificity of zoonyms denoting reindeer family members (sygyn ‘deer, deer’ and bulan ‘elk’) in the Altai culture. A case study of artistic and folklore texts and field materials allowed the phonetic, dialect, lexical-semantic, folklore, and ethnographic features of zoonyms denoting deer animals in the Altai language and folklore to be identified for the first time. The cultural stereotypes of the Altai people about deer are closely related to hunting customs and traditions. In hunting folklore, reindeer family members have a sacred meaning: they are considered sacred animals of Altai, the personification of the master spirit of Altai. In this context, a complete system of prohibitions and taboos has been formulated within the realm of hunting ethics. In the fiction of the Altai people, the deer and elk became animal characters of hunting stories and are also used for comparisons and metaphorical allegories about humans. In folklore and artistic texts, the denotative features of zoonyms characterize the features of the body structure or color, the habitat of these wild animals. The connotations associated with these zoonyms serve as a reflection of a person’s moral and ethical character. In the linguistic consciousness of native speakers of the Altai language and culture, deer and elk are associated with male strength and courage. The participation of zoonyms-reindeer in the conceptualization of spatial and temporal concepts is presented in chrononyms (sygyn ai ‘month of deer’) and toponyms indicating the habitat of moose and deer (for example, Bulandu ‘with moose’).

Efficient motion capture data recovery via relationship-aggregated graph network and temporal pattern reasoning.

Human motion capture (mocap) data is of crucial importance to the realistic character animation, and the missing optical marker problem caused by marker falling off or occlusions often limit its performance in real-world applications. Although great progress has been made in mocap data recovery, it is still a challenging task primarily due to the articulated complexity and long-term dependencies in movements. To tackle these concerns, this paper proposes an efficient mocap data recovery approach by using Relationship-aggregated Graph Network and Temporal Pattern Reasoning (RGN-TPR). The RGN is comprised of two tailored graph encoders, local graph encoder (LGE) and global graph encoder (GGE). By dividing the human skeletal structure into several parts, LGE encodes the high-level semantic node features and their semantic relationships in each local part, while the GGE aggregates the structural relationships between different parts for whole skeletal data representation. Further, TPR utilizes self-attention mechanism to exploit the intra-frame interactions, and employs temporal transformer to capture long-term dependencies, whereby the discriminative spatio-temporal features can be reasonably obtained for efficient motion recovery. Extensive experiments tested on public datasets qualitatively and quantitatively verify the superiorities of the proposed learning framework for mocap data recovery, and show its improved performance with the state-of-the-arts.

Survey of Skinning Method in 3D Character Animation

Survey of Skinning Method in 3D Character Animation

Face Image Generation of Anime Characters Using an Advanced First Order Motion Model with Facial Landmarks

Face Image Generation of Anime Characters Using an Advanced First Order Motion Model with Facial Landmarks

The Representation of Animalism Issue in Sewell’s Black Beauty

Animalism is a figurative representation of animal images in artistic works. This study examines the animal and human characters' function in Sewell's Black Beauty in portraying animal cruelty and its background effect. Data were collected from the novel Black Beauty and Anna Sewell's biographies and descriptively analyzed. After the analysis, some animal characters in Black Beauty function as the animal victim. The rest were portrayed as gay and mercy animals well-treated by its owner. On the other hand, some human characters functioned as offenders. The rest portrayed kind-hearted fellows fond of animals, stand against abusive acts, and advised others to desist from hurting animals. The result showed that five factors affected Sewell's life background, namely ankle illness, Phillip Sewell, Late Industrial Revolution, Victorian Era, and Crimean War.

SYMBOLISM ANALYSIS USING SEMIOTIC APPROACH IN MALAYSIAN ANIMATED FILM

This study examines the symbolism in first anthropomorphic Malaysian animated film, Seefood. It aims to analyse the symbolism of animal characters as a visual metaphor in the Malaysian animated film. This paper is based on research using the Semiotic Saussure Theory in analysing the data. This paper records that cultural factors and knowledge of myths, beliefs and social differences as key aspects of symbolism application can be applied into new media, especially in the field of animation. This makes the character easier to attract the attention of the audience due to the existence of understanding and coherence of social cultural representations that are synonymous in the audience.

Moral Representation of Animals in Arabic and English Children’s Short Stories: A Cognitive Stylistic Approach

This paper investigates the moral representation of animals in two English and Arabic short stories from a cognitive stylistic (CS) perspective. Animal stories appear in a variety of forms, but all include one or more type of animals as the focus of the story. Authors of children literature use animal characters to convey moral ideas through analogy, ideas that would have greater impact than if child characters were presented. CS is the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. It deals with the cognitive processes which influence text interpretation during the act of reading. It takes into account both the formal features of language and the nonlinguistic context of the readers in constructing meaning out of a text. The analysis in this paper is conducted through schema theory. The filling-in of textual gaps with one’s own cognitive knowledge is the basic premise behind schema theory. The hallmark of schema theory is that interpreting any kind of fiction relies on the reader’s background knowledge. When reading a text, readers interpret what is presented by supplying their own knowledge of the world. The analysis tackles the examination of both the thematic and technical tools that are employed by the writers of animal short stories to instill morals in the minds and cognitions of the child readers. The two short stories analyzed are; "Finding Nemo" by Andrew Stanton, and an Arabic one entitled "??????? ????? ?????" " kat?k?t? ????? mrt?n "(Katakito errs twice) by Nabil Farouk. The analysis yields the conclusion that the schema of any person, whether the writer or the child reader, is culturally and naturally affected.

Developing Augmented Reality Lontar Prasi Bali as an E-learning Material to Preserve Balinese Culture

Preservation of cultural heritage is one of the efforts that can be made to maintain and pass it on to the next generation, one of which is Lontar Prasi Bali. Thousands of prasi lontars are recorded in poorly maintained and damaged conditions in terms of form and physical appearance. This article aims to implement Augmented Reality in digitizing the Balinese lontar prasi so that it can preserve, promote, and develop the arts and ancestral heritage so that they have appeal and understanding in the present and even into the future. The application development method uses research and development with the stages of making 3D objects and the process of character animation with Blender, building applications with Unity software and making markers consisting of 3D objects and marker configurations on the Prasi Lontar Sheet. Application testing using a loading response time technique with higher smartphone specification results can provide a faster response time needed to run the application, as well as a User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) test with 86 respondents who showed pragmatic quality, herdonic quality, and overall results above the average (Excellent), so that it shows that this AR application is good and as expected.

JURIDICAL OVERVIEW OF USE OF BRANDS DERIVED FROM WELL-KNOWN FICTIONAL CHARACTERS (STUDY IN TANJUNGPINANG CITY)

This paper discusses the regulation regarding the use of brands originating from fictional characters, both from famous comics and animation, which are registered or unregistered for use by other parties. This normative legal approach examines laws and regulations, legal doctrines, and legal documents relating to brands originating from fictional characters. The results show that the unauthorized use of Marks derived from a wll-known animation characters by other parties can be sued under Law Number 20 of 2016 concerning Marks and Geographical Indications, because they can mislead the public regarding the origin, quality, type, size, variety, the purpose of using goods and/or services. Meanwhile, since Article 83 does not stipulate that the unauthorized use of a mark by another party must be registered, the owner of a registered mark may file a lawsuit against the use of a mark originating from a well-known fictional character against another party even though the other party does not register it.

Analysis of the Regret Speech Act in Japanese

The characters in Japanese animation (or anime) are the center of this study, which examines the ways in which they demonstrate regret. Many prior studies have used anime as research study material because it is one of the media that is extremely interesting to analyze from a variety of perspectives. For this analysis, researchers used information from 14 episodes of the 24-minute-long anime series Golden Time. The animation depicts the daily lives of Japanese college students, and the numerous struggles they endure are depicted through several expressions of regret. The data gathered is derived from transcripts of talks carried out by the anime characters and is utilized as research material. The collected data was 54 regret speech act utterances and then examined using a qualitative descriptive approach. The data were then classified into the varieties of regret indicated by Pink. After being analyzed, it was shown that noni form dominates the regret speech acts performed in anime, and the types of regret speech acts that are commonly employed are those related to regret of an action or opportunity that should have been taken by someone. It is also known in this study that Japanese people tend to express regret by providing information about facts that differ from what they expected, causing them to feel regret. When they express regret, they may also blame themselves for their actions.