{"id":1639,"date":"2022-12-18T13:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T21:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2022-12-18T13:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T21:37:44","slug":"toward-believable-acting-for-autonomous-animated-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/toward-believable-acting-for-autonomous-animated-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward Believable Acting for Autonomous Animated Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last month I had the pleasure of presenting some of my team&#8217;s recent research at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mig2022.cs.purdue.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIG &#8217;22<\/a>. It&#8217;s our first publication, on a topic I care deeply about: <em>acting<\/em> for autonomous animated characters. Why do NPCs in video games seem so far behind, in terms of acting ability, compared to their counterparts in animated movies? How might we make their acting more believable? This is one of those hard, fascinating problems that are just starting to become tractable thanks to recent advances in machine learning. I&#8217;ll have more to say about it soon, but for now, here&#8217;s a short video that explains the first small steps we&#8217;ve taken in that direction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toward Believable Acting for Autonomous Animated Characters\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0RB6DASdUP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the above video, our paper, and also a recording of our 25-minute talk on our new site for the project: <a href=\"https:\/\/believable-acting.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/believable-acting.github.io\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I had the pleasure of presenting some of my team&#8217;s recent research at MIG &#8217;22. It&#8217;s our first publication, on a topic I care deeply about: acting for autonomous animated characters. Why do NPCs in video games seem so far behind, in terms of acting ability, compared to their counterparts in animated movies? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/toward-believable-acting-for-autonomous-animated-characters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toward Believable Acting for Autonomous Animated Characters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,41,123,83,197,60],"tags":[219,218],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-games","category-graphics","category-interactive","category-machine-learning","category-video","tag-acting","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}