Creation Of Characters Research Articles

Latviešu modernisms PSRS: Roberta Eidemaņa piemērs

Soviet Latvian military officer and writer Roberts Eidemanis (1895–1937) lived and worked in the USSR after the October Revolution of 1917. He debuted as a writer before the First World War, working in poetry, drama and prose. In the 1920s, he became part of the diverse literary environment of the USSR, where various modernist currents worked alongside attempts to politicise and unify literature. The article aims to explore what Eidemanis’s Soviet-era prose was like – did it fit into a modernist literary paradigm, and what were these modernist features? The paper is structured in three sections. The first examines Eidemanis’s evolution as a writer, looking at his literary contribution before the First World War. The second section attempts to compare the novel “The Naked Year” (Golyj god, 1922) and its ornamental aesthetic by Eidemanis’s contemporary and friend Boris Pilnyak (real name Boriss Vogau) with Eidemani’s works, especially his long story “Surrounded” (Ielenktie, 1925). The third section examines the most prominent female characters in Eidemanis’s prose texts from the perspective of the new woman type. The methodological framework of the article is literary comparativism and close reading of texts; a feminist reading is used in the analysis of female characters. The article concludes that in the early 1920s, Eidemanis was influenced by the aesthetics of ornamental prose, elements of which he integrated into his work, especially in the long story “Surrounded”. It is also evident that Eidemanis presents a type of new woman in certain texts, giving his heroines the freedom to choose, open sexuality, highlighting the role of women in society and writing about taboo subjects. These aspects bring certain principles of Eidemanis’s text and character creation towards the modernist literary paradigm.

The Comedies of Alessandro Piccolomini: Searching for the Perfect Woman between Loving Initiative and Virtue

In theoretical works such as Orazione, Della institutione, and Raffaella, the Italian writer, scientist, and philogynist Alessandro Piccolomini (1508–78) outlines the characteristics that should make up the perfect woman. In his comedies—Alessandro and L’Amor costante—focusing mainly on the theme of love, Piccolomini presents some of the same ideas, articulating them through his noble and cultured female characters. This article examines Piccolomini’s dramatic productions in light of his treatises and other writings on women in order to underline his originality in the creation of these female characters. On the one hand, they are models of virtue and decorum; on the other, they demonstrate an unusual degree of initiative in love. They are conscious of their desires, and they defend their right to choose their lovers. In this way, Piccolomini describes new traits of the perfect woman.

‘How do you want to do this?’: table-top role-playing games and academic identity

ABSTRACT This paper aims to explore the intersection of academia and Table-Top Role-Playing Games (TTRPG) with the development of identity through both character creation and maps; these two features are key features within TTRPG games, adding depth and richness to the world of play. The author suggests that TTRPGs provide a unique space for introspective academic inquiry and potential personal growth, as players are able to explore and experiment with different identities and roles within a collaborative storytelling framework. Used as a reflective process, academics can explore how their academic working lives look, and their experience of living them, and consider the impact on their actions including areas which they may need to develop or how to best utilise their academic identity for the varying aspects of their work. This may include a deeper undertanding of both who they are and how they interact with others they meet in their professional lives. Through an autoethnographic reflection on both TTRPGs and academic identity, the author proposes that the two worlds have much to offer each other in terms of personal development. Specifically, how the creation of a character based on the academic’s identity can be ‘played’ within a map representing the reality of their academic working life to enhance their personal and professional development.

Coverage of fighting tasks of ukrainian aviation in documentaries

Introduction. Documentaries about Ukraine's aerospace industry create conditions for the audience to immerse themselves in the world of aviation, to feel the effect of being present during combat missions, to cover military events and military operations, but in the first place, they tell the story of a person or people. Documentary filmmakers touched upon the topic of aviation at the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014 and 2015. After the full-scale invasion, the role of aviation became more important in the war, and a new wave of documentaries about military aviation appeared. The peculiarities of covering the combat missions of Ukrainian aviation during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the use of the latest methods of recording events, transmitting testimonies, and creating images ofheroes in documentaries are the subject of this study. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of contemporary television documentaries on aviation in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Research methods. The results of the study were obtained using theoretical, descriptive, comparative methods, and systematic monitoring of documentaries about Ukrainian military aviation. The features of these films were identified, in particular, by the following criteria: duration, methods of recording events and facts, peculiarities of presentation, creation of characters, artistic techniques. The documentaries from 2015 and 2023 were compared. Results. We have analysed documentaries about the combat missions of Ukrainian aviation, such as Pilots. Return", "Masters of the Sky", "Downed Russian pilots". The authors of the films use the techniques of video portraits, video interviews, and comments by experts or heads of relevant structures. Testimonies and interpretations of events help the viewer to understand the specifics of aviation. Conclusions. Documentary films enhance the publicistic images of heroes, including pilots and other aviation professionals, Ukrainian defenders, not only by recording facts, documenting events, testimonies, comments and interviews, but also by artistic techniques and editing.

On the unique creation of “text dramatization” in Sandalwood Death

As the first representative work of Mo Yan's transition period, Sandalwood Death tells the legendary story of Gaomi County's resistance to the German powers with a brushstroke that combines folk customs with magical realism. The work intentionally combines drama art with literary writing, using “cat tune” as an important clue and arranging the plot according to the script to create a dramatic novel with great national art and singing characteristics. This article aims to study how Sandalwood Death achieves the purpose of “dramatization of text” in character creation and plot arrangement. This paper introduces the concept of drama-novel for research. Based on the character creation method in the works and the concept of facial narrative, it finds that the main characters are built as “performers” in the drama, creating unique facial characters. The paper also found that the plot and chapter arrangement of Sandalwood Death combined the unique role of the pre-chapter singing segment and “cat tune” in the work, integrating the dramatic singing segment into the text narrative to achieve a dramatic effect. This paper combines the “performer, stage” relationship essential to “dramatization of text” to analyze the characterization and pre-chapter singing of “Red Sorghum Death” respectively.

The Origin of Educational Technology in China

Educational Technology is the means and methods employed in educational activities. Since the inception of education, there has been a parallel development of Educational Technology with a rich historical background. The entire evolutionary process of Educational Technology can be divided into three stages: Pre-Educational Technology, Current Educational Technology, and Post-Educational Technology, corresponding to the past, present, and future of Educational Technology. Throughout history, the Chinese nation has made irreplaceable contributions to the creation and inheritance of human civilization. The educational philosophy embedded in the discussions of education and technology among various schools of thought in ancient China and the educational ideas found in ancient Chinese scientific works laid the theoretical and practical foundations for optimizing the teaching and learning process. The creation of Chinese characters, the invention and dissemination of papermaking and printing techniques, and the development and application of intuitive teaching aids enriched the theory and practice of teaching and learning resources. The combination of the two not only promoted the development of Chinese education, but also influenced the process of global education development. Ancient China possessed the necessary and sufficient conditions for the birth of Educational Technology, therefore it can be considered that China is the birthplace of Educational Technology, and the Chinese nation is the indigenous people of Educational Technology.

Artistic-Methodological Research of Anwar Obidjan

This study investigates the importance of comic stories in the evolution of Uzbek prose, with a particular focus on the originality and critique of society embedded in Anwar Obidjon's work. Using biographical, structural, and psychological techniques, this study explores Obidjon's distinctive style, which is shaped by literary influences and traditions. Through the creation of comic characters, Obidjon skillfully exposes the ugliness of prevalent society, and provides reflections on contemporary issues. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of comic storytelling and its role in societal critique, and offer implications for the advancement of literary theory and practice.
 Highlight:
 
 Anwar Obidjon's comic stories become a lens for exposing the ugliness of society, reflecting on contemporary issues.
 The utilization of biographical, structural, and psychological techniques provides insight into Obidjon's distinctive literary style.
 This study contributes to increased understanding of the role of comic stories in societal critique in Uzbek prose.
 
 Keywords : Comic Stories, Style, Artistic Skills, Personality, Composition

FEATURES, PROBLEMS, AND PROSPECTS OF USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY ART FIELD: WRITING, FINE ARTS, VOICE ACTING

This article describes most things related to the rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence which use Neural networks to create all sorts of stunning things. The article covers what exactly Artificial Intelligence is, its short history of development and some techniques it uses. Next comes AI-image generation, which is quite popular right now as it opens possibilities that artist have dreamt for a long time. In the world of fine arts, AI algorithms inspire artists by offering fresh perspectives, styles, and techniques. Here the main advantages of using such AI is described, why it suddenly become popular, roughly explained about its algorithm of work, how users can actually use it and named the most popular tools. Also there described weaknesses of such image generators such as actually low understanding of word-object relationship, it is hard for it to grasp abstract things such as figurative meanings and hard to control what author exactly want to generate. The article also describes usage of Neural Networks in writing field. In the realm of writing, AI-powered tools assist in crafting plots, developing characters, and even producing complete articles or stories. There it can be used both as a helper tool to find proper wording or improve writing style, as well as writing complete stories or at least helping writers to outline the first draft. It can also present advanced writing techniques in easily editable visual form by using experimental TaleBrush, which can greatly help beginners in writing field but also professionals. Not just that, but creating believable characters using Chat bots or enhancing language translation. AI can revolutionize voice acting by providing realistic and diverse AI-generated voices, opening up new possibilities for character creation. Voice acting is another field that would greatly benefit from using AI, as it allows to basically create entire songs and albums just using Vocaloids, do voiceovers for films and games with VoiceVox and create and edit podcasts with fast-learning AI text to speech synthesizers. In conclusion the future of AI tools were described such as advanced video editing, help with programming and possibility to create an entirely generated and live imaginary world in games with lively NPC which previously was just impossible.

(Nie)zwyczajna kremlowska codzienność – Fabien Nury, Thierry Robin: "Śmierć Stalina. Prawdziwa historia… radziecka"

The (Un)ordinary Everyday Reality in the Kremlin: Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin’s The Death of Stalin: A True Soviet Story Daily life is usually associated with repetition and the ordinary. There are, however, settings where the quotidian is far from usual or familiar. Marked by dread and uncertainty, the everyday reality in the Kremlin during Joseph Stalin’s era is one such case evocatively presented in Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin’s graphic novel The Death of Stalin: A True Soviet Story. The article demonstrates how history can be artistically reworked through the comic medium. The analysis focuses on the choice of colors, composition of the panels, perspective, and creation of characters, and refers to the postulates put forward by Hillary Chute, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault. The paper concludes that the authors of The Death of Stalin not only offer a convincing take on one of the most crucial moments in the history of the Soviet Union and the world but also employ subtle artistic measures typical of comics to recreate the overwhelming atmosphere of everyday life in the Kremlin dominated by omnipresent fear and uncertainty about the future. The insights they offer into the actions of top-ranking communist officials serve as an artistic commentary on the findings of professional historians, inviting further interpretations.

21세기 중국 가극 속 여성의 이미지 연구

In 21st-century China, amidst the trend of internationalization, Chinese opera has been narrating various themes relevant to the contemporary context. This study aims to explore both the differences and similarities between the portrayal of women in 21st-century Chinese opera and the traditional female image of the past. Chinese opera is categorized into three thematic categories: 'Red Revolution', 'Traditional Legend', and 'Reality and Women's Love'. This study analyzes the formation of heroine roles and the status and functions of women within these themes. The conclusions of the study are as follows: First, while the representation of females in 21st-century Chinese opera often adheres to established archetypes, it also explores a variety of expressive possibilities. Second, the social status of women is intricately linked to their depiction in opera, where women are not only performers but also creators. Third, a distinctive characteristic of Chinese opera is the creation of new female characters, diverging from traditional portrayals. Through these roles, Chinese opera delves into social issues and values, significantly influencing the empowerment and development of women's identity and inner strength in this century.

Application and Comparative Analysis of Improvisational (Improvisation, Etude) Methode for Character Creation by Dancers

Application and Comparative Analysis of Improvisational (Improvisation, Etude) Methode for Character Creation by Dancers

Character Creating Process and Meaning of 'GWK' FFI 2015 Animation as Preservation of Balinese Mythology

The GWK (Garuda Wisnu Kencana) animation tells the story of the adventures of a magical boy named Garuda in obtaining Tirta Amerta (water of life) belonging to Lord Vishnu to free his mother who is held hostage by a magical grandmother named Kadru, the animation that can be watched at GWK Bali Cultural Park won the Citra trophy in the animation category in 2015. The purpose of this research is to explain: 1. The process of GWK character creation, 2. The meaning of the animated character characterized by Balinese mythology. The results showed that the process of creating Garuda Wisnu Kencana animation consisted of several stages which were quite a long process, starting from pre-production, production to post-production and screening until now as in 2023 at GWK cultural park, Uluwatu, Bali. The type of work is 3D animation with a duration of 34 minutes, telling the story of the little Garuda adventure in getting tirta amerta (water of life) belonging to Lord Vishnu to free his mother from the hostage taken by the witch Kadru. The meaning that can be explained from this creation is the meaning of creativity, the meaning of preservation, the meaning of national identity. The finding of this research is that the production process of Garuda Wisnu Kencana animation consists of several stages that are quite long, starting from pre-production. The conclusion of this research is that the process of creating GWK requires collaborative work with high standards and can be a promotion and preservation of Balinese culture.
 Keywords: best animation; FFI; 2015; GWK; character; balinese; mythology.

Aktor Norwida – hamletyzm w XIX wieku

This article attempts to show the influence of Shakespeare’s Hamlet characters on Norwid’s character creation in his work Aktor. The protagonist Jerzy is analysed in terms of commonelements with Hamlet as well as the similarities of Eliza and Hrabina to Ofelia are presented. Starting from the interpretation of the individuals created by the polish author, the conclusions concerning the purpose of Norwid’s references to Shakespeare’s characters, are formulated.

(Nie)zbędność zmian – serialowe adaptacje komiksów w perspektywie przekładu kulturowego (na przykładzie Sandmana i Wednesday)

A (NON-)NECESSITY OF CHANGE – SERIAL COMIC BOOK ADAPTATIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURAL TRANSLATION (USING SANDMAN AND WEDNESDAY AS EXAMPLES)The article analyses the changes made in adaptations of comic books compared to the original, using the examples of the Netflix TV shows: Sandman and Wednesday. These reflections have their origin in cultural translation and are related to issues important to contemporary (pop) culture, such as: character creation, representation of sexual and ethnic minorities, and the role and position of women in American society. The author examines the types of modifications introduced in intersemiotic and intralingual translations and indicates their possible sources (social need and/or pressure from external institutions).

Analisis Dampak Modernisasi Terhadap Perilaku Siswa Sekolah Dasar Pada Aspek Sosial Budaya

Modernization isa process of changing societies and cultures with all its aspects from traditional to modern. Modernization, while having a positive effect, can also have a negative impact that one of them is having on the behavior of elementary school students. These effects can happen if we cannot strain that modernization. Therefore as teachers we should be able to minimize the emergence of harmful negative effects on the creation of student character. The results of this study suggest that modernization has hada significant impact on the behavior of elementary school students. This is demonstrated by such oft viewed negative behaviors as brawling, social strife, social promiscuity, misuse of the Internet and cell phones that cause students to become irritable and socially impaired. The research method used was the literacy study of several accredited journals according to the research discussion. This study is intended to enable readers to know the impact that modernization of students' behavior in elementary schools and teachers can minimize the negative effects that will happen in students.

Calculia: an innovative game to assist individuals with learning difficulties in basic mathematics operations

The educational application entitled “CALCULIA: An innovative game to help people with learning difficulties in basic Mathematics operations” was developed by a multidisciplinary team from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Maranhão and Piauí – IFMA and IFPI, together with the Department of Education of the Government of the State of Maranhão – SEDUC-MA, formed by teachers, students and volunteers, to be used in formal and non-formal learning spaces, aiming to teach basic mathematical operations, as well as numerical symbolic understanding, targeting people with dyscalculia. Gamification was inserted as a teaching-learning strategy to acquire mathematical knowledge such as: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, in addition to understanding mathematical symbols: figures, proportions, concepts and formulas. The methodological path adopted was Applied Behavior Analysis – ABA, for which bibliographical surveys, document analysis, prior search and field research were carried out, followed by the computational steps for the prototyping process, character creation, application development process, creation levels, prototype testing, adjustments and application validation. Its approach focused on verbal and operational dyscalculia with the aim of helping professionals in the field of Education and Health, improving the quality of life of individuals with dyscalculia. The evidence found reinforces the need to expand the project to cover practical, lexical, graphic and ideognostic dyscalculia.

AvatarStudio: Text-Driven Editing of 3D Dynamic Human Head Avatars

Capturing and editing full-head performances enables the creation of virtual characters with various applications such as extended reality and media production. The past few years witnessed a steep rise in the photorealism of human head avatars. Such avatars can be controlled through different input data modalities, including RGB, audio, depth, IMUs, and others. While these data modalities provide effective means of control, they mostly focus on editing the head movements such as the facial expressions, head pose, and/or camera viewpoint. In this paper, we propose AvatarStudio, a text-based method for editing the appearance of a dynamic full head avatar. Our approach builds on existing work to capture dynamic performances of human heads using Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and edits this representation with a text-to-image diffusion model. Specifically, we introduce an optimization strategy for incorporating multiple keyframes representing different camera viewpoints and time stamps of a video performance into a single diffusion model. Using this personalized diffusion model, we edit the dynamic NeRF by introducing view-and-time-aware Score Distillation Sampling (VT-SDS) following a model-based guidance approach. Our method edits the full head in a canonical space and then propagates these edits to the remaining time steps via a pre-trained deformation network. We evaluate our method visually and numerically via a user study, and results show that our method outperforms existing approaches. Our experiments validate the design choices of our method and highlight that our edits are genuine, personalized, as well as 3D- and time-consistent.

Performance Style under the Traditional Realist Director Concept of Chinese Films in the 1980s

Since the new era, Chinese films have been hovering between art and politics. While they are striving to find the subject status of film art, they are difficult to completely separate from politics. From 1979 to 1980, characters such as intellectuals, workers, and farmers in Chinese films lived as ordinary people in specific situations in the film, and they demonstrated the political character endowed by the times. An important feature of Chinese film performance culture under the concept of traditional realist directors is that the creation of intellectual characters has become mainstream, such as Fu Bin’s identity as an ordinary reporter in The Trill of Life (1979),Qiu Shi’s identity as an intellectual in the movie Evening Rain (1980), and group portraits of intellectuals in Legend of Tianyun Mountain (1980). Another important feature of Chinese film performance culture under the concept of traditional realist directors is the comedic expression of workers’ identity politics, such as the portraits of workers in the movies What a Family (1979) and Twins Come in Pairs (1979). Chinese film performances under the concept of traditional realist directors have also created a number of peasant images with political characters, such as the peasant group in The Plough (1979) and Jiang Maofu in Laughter in the Moon Village (1981).

Role of discursive structure in the genre specification of online discourses

The paper starts with the assumption that each time people engage in discourses, they perform social actions in order to adaptively satisfy their communicative purposes and needs (cf. Verschueren–Brisard 2009; Steen 2011; Giltrow 2013). Moreover, these social actions form types in accordance with the typical co-occurrences of typical discourse situations involving typical roles, typical themes and typical communicative goals tar- geted by discourse participants (cf. Bakhtin 1986). These typical co-occurrences serve as ground for the functioning of genre knowledge and result in typical patterns of construal.
 In this paper, I present a two-pronged empirical study that reveals the role of discursive structure in the creation of the genre-specific character of online discourses. By discursive structural units, I mean discourse segments (usually larger than one sentence but smaller than the entire discourse) used by the speaker to accomplish a communicative strategy aimed at achieving a more specific communicative purpose. During the research, I used two types of data. On the one hand, I compiled a research corpus consisting of 50 online recipes and 50 online book reviews in Hungarian. On the other hand, I conducted an experiment in which one group of Hungarian native speaker informants (25 persons) had to create a recipe for a good novel, while another group of informants (25 persons) had to write a review of a given recipe. The research thus focused on the genres of recipe and (book) review. I performed corpus-based qualitative analyses on both datasets using the MAXQDA software. After carefully developing a data-driven annotation system on a smaller pilot material, I systematically identified the communicative strategic units of both the non-elicited and the elicited dataset [cf. Swales’s (1990) move structure analysis]. The research findings are as follows: (i) Discursive structure formed by the speaker’s communicative strategies is a genre-marking quality of the online discourses under study. (ii) Recipes written by laypersons and professionals do not have a different discursive structure but the identified discursive structure is very clearly manifested. (iii) Book reviews written by lay readers differ significantly from those written by professional critics in terms of discursive structure and this sharp differentiation reveals a separation between two more specific genres, i.e. amateur book review and professional critique.

The Conflicts and Awakeness of Self-awareness -- On the Character of Sun Shaoping in the Ordinary World

In the decades since The Ordinary World came out, scholars in the literary world have never stopped exploring it, because it is a masterpiece that has inspired generations of young people to struggle with difficulties in their life. Firstly, this paper selects the character of Sun Shaoping in the book as an example. Then, on the basis of author Lu Yao's background and several characters in the book who are closely related to Sun Shaoping, the paper analysed the reasons for the creation of character to deeply investigate what kind of factors and environments contribute to the formation of this self-awareness. Finally, all the efforts is to reveal the conflicts and self-awareness of character’s inner world.