Creation Of Characters Research Articles

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.

Accentuating patient values in shared decision-making: A mixed methods development of an online value clarification tool and communication training in the context of early phase clinical cancer trials

ObjectiveIn the shared decision-making (SDM) process for potential early phase clinical cancer trial participation, value clarification is highly recommended. However, exploration and discussion of patient values between patients and oncologists remains limited. This study aims to develop an SDM-supportive intervention, consisting of a preparatory online value clarification tool (OnVaCT) and a communication training. MethodsThe OnVaCT intervention was developed and pilot-tested by combining theoretical notions on value clarification, with interview studies with patients and oncologists, focus groups with patient representatives and oncologists, and think aloud sessions with patients, following the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for complex interventions. These human-centered methodologies enabled a user-centered approach at every step of the development process of the intervention. ResultsThis study shows relevant patient values and oncologists’ perspectives on value exploration and discussion in daily practice. This has been combined with theoretical considerations into the creation of characters based on real-life experiences of patients in the OnVaCT, and how the tool is combined with a communication training for oncologists to improve SDM.

Recent developments in the research and digitalization of Jurchen script and literature

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the research and advancements in Jurchen language and literature since the 20th century. Recent discoveries of multiple Jurchen inscriptions and documents, including the inscription found in Shenmu County and the Arkhara River basin, have presented new sources for the study of Jurchen language and script. Progress in the study of Jurchen language and script has been relatively slow, with major accomplishments made in fields such as the Jurchen phonetic system, interpretation of individual words, and comparative analysis between Jurchen and Manchu languages. In addition, the digitalization of Jurchen script and documents has seen some advancement, including the development of Unicode encoding for Jurchen script and the creation of standard Jurchen characters.

대학 교양수업에서 메타버스 아바타 커스터마이징을 활용한 디지털 스토리텔링 수업 적용과 탐색

The purpose of this study is to explore whether a digital storytelling course utilizing metaverse avatar customization influences learners' digital self-efficacy and how learners perceive this experience. The study was conducted with 135 learners who took a general education course in the Seoul metropolitan area during the first semester of 2023. Digital self-efficacy was analyzed using a pre- post test and paired-sample t-tests for its sub-dimensions (digital self-confidence, digital preference, digital utility) all showed significantly higher results in the post-test compared to the pre-test, indicating an impact on learners' digital self-efficacy. Additionally, learner perceptions of experiencing the metaverse revealed that character creation through the metaverse platform allowed learners to express characters creatively, fostered active team communication, unleashed team ideas to the fullest, facilitated the expansion of new experiences and knowledge, increased confidence in using metaverse, and improved expression skills. This study is significant in its focus on the educational application effects of a digital storytelling course utilizing metaverse avatar customization and the learner experiences in the avatar customization process.

FUNCTIONS OF PROPER NAMES AND THEIR PARTICULAR FEATURES: A STUDY OF “THE SORCERER” BY WILLIAM GILBERT AND ARTHUR SULLIVAN

The present article aims to reveal the particular features of the way proper names function in an operatic text, in particular in the libretto of the British comic opera “The Sorcerer” created by William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. This study is based on the following hypothesis: within the framework of theatrical discourse, one of the main functions of a proper name is an information-accumulative, or cumulative, function. As an integral part of culture, an onym has the ability to store culturally significant information. “Decoding” such onyms in a literary or an operatic text provides the reader or viewer with all the context necessary for an understanding of what is happening according to the plot. For example, in “The Sorcerer” there are anthroponyms that indicate the status that the main characters have in the Anglo-Saxon society. Apart from anthroponyms there are also culturally significant toponyms, which have to be understood in order to grasp the comic effect created by William Gilbert, the author of the libretto. The analysis of the few chosen onyms made it possible to prove that a proper name may play an important role in the construction of the plot and in the creation of characters’ images within the framework of a musical theatre piece.

Ranjana Script Handwritten Character Recognition using CNN

This paper proposes a public image database for Ranjana script Handwritten Character Datasets (RHCD), publicly available for Ranjana script researchers or anyone interested in the subject. To the best of our knowledge, the Ranjana script Handwritten Character Dataset (RHCD) is the first publicly available database for Ranjana script researchers. Ranjana script descended from the Brahmi script, consists of 36 consonant letters, 16 vowel letters, and 10 numerical letters. The focus of this research is three-fold: the first is to create a new database for Ranjana script Handwritten Character Recognition; the second is to test the character recognition accuracy of the created RHCD using existing CNN algorithms like LeNET-5, AlexNET, and ZFNET algorithm; the third is to propose a model by investigating different hyper-tuning parameters to improve the recognition accuracy of the created RHCD. The research method applied in this study is dataset collection, digitization & cropping, pre-processing, dataset splitting, data augmentation, and finally, implementing the CNN model (existing and proposed). Performance evaluation is based on the test accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. The experiment result shows that our model ranks first, with a testing accuracy of 99.73% for 64x64 pixels resolution with precision, recall, and F1-score value 1. Creation and recognition of Ranjana script characters, vowel modifiers, and compound characters can be the next milestone to be achieved. Segmentation of words and sentences into characters and recognizing each character individually can be the next research domain.

Размышление об этических аспектах принятия аналитической философской концепции в романе У. Гэсса «Тоннель»

The aim of the study is to determine the significance of the philosophical problem of language and speech in William Gass’s novel “The Tunnel” as central to understanding the ideological and artistic intent of the work. The scientific originality consists in demonstrating the conceptual importance of the writer’s use of the foundations of an analytical philosophical approach to the interpretation of language in the creation of characters’ artistic images and emplotment. The main character’s focus on the word as the only true reality leads him to philosophical insights, but at the same time to loneliness, solipsism, loss of moral criteria in reasoning about man and history. The central image of the tunnel in the novel becomes a symbol of life in linguistic reality as a world that gives a sense of freedom within itself, but does not allow going beyond its limits. As a result, we prove that it is the problem of language, interpreted in the light of the author’s contemporary analytical tradition, that acts as the key one in understanding the idea of the novel, which gives the work a genuine philosophical depth. Gass shares the opinion of the followers of analytical philosophy about the primary role of language in the formation of a person’s worldview, but at the same time, he points out the importance of preserving traditional ideas about morality and ethics.

An Analysis of Hemingway’s Symbolism in the Snow of Kilimanjaro

This paper analyzes the symbolic meaning of Hemingway’s well-known short story The Snow of Kilimanjaro based on symbolism theory, which makes readers better understand the Hemingway’s powerful creation of character and his unique language style. This paper analyzes the images of snowy mountains, snow in memory, leopards, wine, gangrene and their relations with Harry, and explains their symbolic meanings in the novel. Although images such as wine and gangrene imply that Harry's death is too heavy, the snow mountain of Kilimanjaro and the leopard symbolize Harry's spiritual immortality.

Development of a low-cost and user-friendly system to create personalized human digital twin.

Creating a digital twin has enormous potential in biomedical engineering. However, it is also technically challenging. No existing system can allow people who don't have the art-and-design background to create their own digital twin. To fill this gap, this study proposes a low-cost wearable system and a user-friendly framework for creating personalized digital twins with a fast speed and high fidelity. The personalized human digital twin can capture synchronized facial expressions, gaze direction, and whole-body movements for real-time rendering. The system simplifies the complex process of creating digital humans, and allows for the creation of data-driven characters without specialized skills.Clinical Relevance- This system can be used to help doctors keep track record of the patient's health status in a more visual and realistic way, supporting them in making more accurate clinical decisions, and facilitating a more detailed medical intervention.

On the Organological Potential of Video Games

The various—and often unpredictable—musical applications given to new digital technologies have fundamentally altered our ways of creating, performing, representing, and understanding musical instruments, giving way to new sounding artifacts that pose unprecedented challenges to musical iconography and organology. The multifaceted nature of digital musical instruments has exposed the limitations of traditional organology, prompting a redefinition of the concept of instrumentality and an upsurge of new methodologies. This renovation, however, has yet to recognize the organological potential of video games, which often make use of visual depictions and reconfigurations of musical instruments in the creation and characterization of virtual universes and characters. Musical instruments play an essential role in regulating the tensions between fiction and reality that underlie videoludic experiences by constituting an active agent in the player’s interaction and emerging relationships with the gameworld and its music. Research on these artifacts has been scarce yet promising thus far, providing this article with a wide-ranging collection of references that have served to inform the proposal of a new cataloguing card model for the identification, examination, and classification of musical instruments represented in, and constituted by, video games and consoles. This model merges traditional organological knowledge inherited from hierarchical systems of classification—such as the Hornbostel-Sachs—with new paradigms and taxonomical categories. In so doing, this model aims to accommodate the dual nature of ludomusical instruments as both iconographical resources of undeniable sociocultural transcendence, and organological artifacts with a set of assigned roles within their virtual worlds. The ultimate goal is to provide a framework that fully recognizes the impact of ludomusical instruments in musical experiences and organological knowledge and expectations both inside and outside the medium.

Analisis Perubahan Desain Karakter dalam GIM SERI DREADOUT Pendekatan Manga Matrix

Game is an interactive media that can create a space of imagination. DreadOut is a digitale game that adapts Indonesian culture as an entertainment aspect in the game, By bringing Indonesian ghosts. In its development, visual appearance is important in building an interesting game, one of which is the characters. There are differences in kuntilanak and tuyul characters in Dreaout 1 and Dreadout 2. This research dissects the differences between these characters using a manga matrix approach. It is hoped that this research will be a reference as a development of visual creation of characters in the game, in order to develop interesting characters according to the intended target market.

Archetype or Stereotype: The Femme Fatale in Online Education

Creative writing courses have flourished in recent years. However, the accuracy of the content of some courses has yet to be examined. Character archetypes are an unavoidable topic in most courses requiring character creation. We found that some online creative courses include characters whose character archetypes are debatable. For example, the Femme Fatale is often considered a character archetype, but some scholars believe it is a stereotype bias. While the use of character archetypes and stereotypes in creative work is a matter of personal freedom, it is inappropriate to educationally disseminate content that is still controversial in the academic community. This study explores the history and reasons for the generalization of the Femme Fatale, the differences between the Femme Fatale and other character archetypes, and derives three reasons why the Femme Fatale is inappropriate as a creative work. This study is intended to call attention to the rigor of the content of online creative writing courses.

Enhancing biofeedback-driven self-guided virtual reality exposure therapy through arousal detection from multimodal data using machine learning

Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is a novel intervention technique that allows individuals to experience anxiety-evoking stimuli in a safe environment, recognise specific triggers and gradually increase their exposure to perceived threats. Public-speaking anxiety (PSA) is a prevalent form of social anxiety, characterised by stressful arousal and anxiety generated when presenting to an audience. In self-guided VRET, participants can gradually increase their tolerance to exposure and reduce anxiety-induced arousal and PSA over time. However, creating such a VR environment and determining physiological indices of anxiety-induced arousal or distress is an open challenge. Environment modelling, character creation and animation, psychological state determination and the use of machine learning (ML) models for anxiety or stress detection are equally important, and multi-disciplinary expertise is required. In this work, we have explored a series of ML models with publicly available data sets (using electroencephalogram and heart rate variability) to predict arousal states. If we can detect anxiety-induced arousal, we can trigger calming activities to allow individuals to cope with and overcome distress. Here, we discuss the means of effective selection of ML models and parameters in arousal detection. We propose a pipeline to overcome the model selection problem with different parameter settings in the context of virtual reality exposure therapy. This pipeline can be extended to other domains of interest where arousal detection is crucial. Finally, we have implemented a biofeedback framework for VRET where we successfully provided feedback as a form of heart rate and brain laterality index from our acquired multimodal data for psychological intervention to overcome anxiety.

Shaping the Future of Animation towards Role of 3D Simulation Technology in Animation Film and Television

The application of 3D simulation technology has revolutionized the field of animation film and television art, providing new possibilities and creative opportunities for visual storytelling. This research aims to explore the various aspects of applying 3D simulation technology in animation film and television art. It examines how 3D simulation technology enhances the creation of realistic characters, environments, and special effects, contributing to immersive and captivating storytelling experiences. The research also investigates the technical aspects of integrating 3D cloud simulation technology into the animation production pipeline, including modeling, texturing, rigging, and animation techniques. This paper explores the application of these optimization algorithms in the context of cloud-based 3D environments, focusing on enhancing the efficiency and performance of 3D simulations. Black Widow and Spider Monkey Optimization can be used to optimize the placement and distribution of 3D assets in cloud storage systems, improving data access and retrieval times. The algorithms can also optimize the scheduling of rendering tasks in cloud-based rendering pipelines, leading to more efficient and cost-effective rendering processes. The integration of 3D cloud environments and optimization algorithms enables real-time optimization and adaptation of 3D simulations. This allows for dynamic adjustments of simulation parameters based on changing conditions, resulting in improved accuracy and responsiveness. Moreover, it explores the impact of 3D cloud simulation technology on the artistic process, examining how it influences the artistic vision, aesthetics, and narrative possibilities in animation film and television. The research findings highlight the advantages and challenges of using 3D simulation technology in animation, shedding light on its potential future developments and its role in shaping the future of animation film and television art.

CHARACTER EDUCATION BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM SIRI™ NA PACCE IN SOCIOLOGY LEARNING

Technological developments have opened up the opportunity for every mixed culture, with negative and positive effects. One negative impact is that students tend to imitate foreign cultures and forget their culture's local wisdom values. Thus, the study intended to see the concept of integrating character education in siri™ na pacce™s local wisdom through sociology. This type of research is a library study that uses books and other literature as primary objects. Studies show how integrating siri™ na pacce™s value in sociology can be done through four strategies. First, exemplary strategy. The teacher, as the subject, gives an example of any action, behavior, or words that indicate siri™ na pacce's attitude. The second strategy is to intervene by integrating values-based character education siri™ na pacce in sociological studies. The third strategy is consistent breeding. After an exemplary and intervention strategy has been implemented, a strategy is needed to keep what has been implanted into a habit or habit. The fourth strategy is reinforcement. The strategy is basically done along with the breeding strategy. This integration can be an attempt to introduce and pass on local culture to the student, as well as good character creation.

The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse

The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse

STRATEGY OF THE NEW DRAMA IN LESYA UKRAINKA’S LITERARYAND- CRITICAL ARTICLES

The article examines the features of a new drama promoted by Lesya Ukrainka in her literary-and-critical articles, and further in her artistic work. In the new drama, Lesya Ukrainka focuses on the nature of the dramatic work, specifically, the text as a link connecting the addresser and the addressee. She sees H. Hauptman’s dramaturgy as an example of such text creation, namely, motives and types of characters in his plays. The word becomes the lead character in such texts and turns into a communicative strategy. The word becomes a structurally and figuratively robust means of developing the play’s plot and composition. Lesya Ukrainka associates new drama’s purpose not with modernism or with the programs of “art-for-art’s-sake” and aestheticism, but with the social drama development. The author believes that the concept of a new drama determines the nature of structural and compositional transformations, the drama’s figurative originality. Lesya Ukrainka considers the dramaturgy by H. Ibsen, H. Hauptman, and S. Przybyshevsky, whose works she analyses in her literary-and-critical articles, to be examples of the new drama. The factors providing for the emergence of the new drama in Ukrainian literature include the drama lyrisation as a communicative strategy, which is a manifestation of the play’s “literaturisation”. Lyrisation as the dramatic text’s feature contributes to the action subjectivisation, leads to a chronotope displacement, enables the combination of events happening in different times within one dramatic text, the polysemy of expression through a metaphor or symbol. The philosophy of the author’s strategy of transforming verbal subject of poetic existence correlates with the ability of a statement to create new multiple meanings and interpretations of the text that convey the emotionality of the author’s words. Drama lyrisation drives the creation of conventional images, while the character appears in the text not in one guise, but in several. The author distances themselves from the character, which enables the subject’s uncertainty and potential multiplicity. Dramatic text’s lyrisation becomes an incentive for the text’s generic and genre transformations, contributes to the creation of conventional images that establish explicit communication between the addresser and the addressee. The author as the text’s addresser is presented in the characters’ statements, which provides a plurality of interpretations and meanings of the dramatic text, allows for playing with words, that manifests “literaturisation”. “Literaturisation” as a communicative strategy integrates the texts of Ukrainian playwrights into the context of the world literary and theatrical tradition, expands their themes, genre diversity, and figurative system.

Towards Representational Adequacy: A Critical Analysis of Transgender Representation inTell Me Why

While transgender representation in media has improved in quantity over the last decade, the representation of transgender men in video games is still limited. In this work, I examine the character Tyler from the game Tell Me Why as a critical case study toward the representational adequacy of transgender people in video games. Through a focus on character design, narrative, paratexts, and game reception, I explore the ways Tyler is a more complex example of transgender representation. Additionally, I argue that the act of bringing transgender people into character creation results in a more complex representation.