• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.232-235
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• 2019

In recent years, Japanese style Chinese Moe-tic Ship personification games have enjoyed success in Korean game market - starting from 'Girl's Frontier' in 2017 to recent 'Azur Lane' in 2018. Their 'all female' characters have overly sexual appearance thus young male adults/adolescents are main consumers of the genre. In this paper, we investigate all 300+ character skins of the game 'Azur Lane' on how much their character illustrates have sexual exposure of the female body for the sexism and how their standard attire have different patterns with respect to the affiliated nationalities. We report that the sexual exposure is highly related to the payable skins including swim suits and there exists some sexual stereotype in characters' attire. Japanese and Chinese characters emphasize their traditional Chipao and Kimono. Japanese also wore school uniforms. German characters wore uniforms the most and many British characters wore maiden uniform. Although this game is classified as adult game, its overly sexualized female characters are harmful for young adults to cause sexual objectification of females.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.103-112
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• 2018

'Fashion' is one of the most important aspects in game character design. However, despite its influence, analytical approaches in integrating fashion design methods in character designs are rare practices within the industry. The following paper aims point out the practicality of integrating and utilizing theoretical and formative methods in fashion design in creating character concept designs and show how the following application can create visual stimuli for artists in future concepts.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.403-408
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• 2021

From the perspective that RPG games give players a sense of reality, the characterization of game characters can be said to be at the heart of design behavior. The personality of a unique character enhances the player's concern and commitment, allowing players to experience a variety of experiences. Through theoretical research and case analysis, this paper analyzes the expression of individuality in RPG game character design. In the RPG game, the way to express the character's individuality is first based on the game's time-space background, plot, task, etc. to inform the character's general gender, race, occupation, and skills. In line with the application and use of the characters, the roles will be developed in a concrete and rich way, and the shapes, movements, colors, costumes and weapons will be more refined. The purpose of this study is to obtain the main factors that influence RPG character's personality design from the viewpoint of perceptual design theory. In addition, it is proposed that the RPG game character personality design method should be adopted.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.1615-1618
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• 2004

영화, 애니메이션, 게임 등 디지털 문화 컨텐츠에서 의상을 입은 캐릭터들의 사실성이 강조되는데, 디지털 의상 제작에 있어서 기존의 패션 CAD나 의상 애니메이션 소프트웨어들은 여러 단계의 작업을 거쳐야 하고 의상 디자인의 전문성을 요구한다. 특히, 최근 우리 문화 원형의 디지털 컨텐츠화로 디지털 한복의 수요가 증가하고 있으며, 한복은 재단이나 착용방식 등에서 양복과는 구성학적 차이점을 지님에도 불구하고 디지털 한복 제작을 위한 전문 시뮬레이션 도구는 전무하다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 전통적인 한복의 제작에서 사용하는 신체 치수와 체형특징에 따른 옷본의 크기 조정 방법을 지식베이스로 구축하고, 이를 사용하여 한복에 대한 사전 지식이 없는 사용자들도 가상 캐릭터에 쉽게 한복을 착용시킬 수 있는 지식 기반 한복 드레이핑 시뮬레이션을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.490-492
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• 2004

영화, 애니메이션, 게임 등 디지털 문화 컨텐츠에서 의상을 입은 캐릭터들의 사실성이 강조되는데, 기존의 패션 CAD나 의상 애니메이션 소프트웨어들은 디자인에 있어서 여러 단계의 작업을 거쳐야 하고 의상 디자인의 전문성을 요구한다 특히, 최근 우리 문화 원형의 디지털 컨텐츠화로 디지털 한복의 수요가 증가하고 있으며, 한복은 재단이나 착용방식 등에서 양복과는 구성학적 차이점을 지님에도 불구하고 디지털 한복 제작을 위한 전문 시뮬레이션 도구는 전무하다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 전통적인 한복의 제작에서 사용하는 신체 치수 측정방법과 옷본 및 체형에 따른 사이즈 조정 방법을 지식베이스로 구축하였다. 이를 통해 한복에 대한 사전 지식이 업는 사용자들도 가상 캐릭터에 쉽게 한복을 착용 시킬 수 있는 지식 기반 한복 드레이핑 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.58 no.4
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• pp.86-98
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• 2008

This study is purposed to determine the correlation between contemporary fashion and game characters' clothes and to analyze the formative property of the game characters' clothes expressed in the contemporary fashion. The temporal scope of this study is from 2004 to 2007 based on general online game ranks, while the game type is limited to 3D-online role playing game. The most popular clothes of game characters are analyzed and found to have imaginary, sensualistic, and cross-sexual features. These are also expressed as Cyber resistance image, Femme fatal image and Asexual image in the contemporary fashion. Firstly, the Cyber resistance image in the recent fashion is shown as belligerent, destructive and surrealistic image in contemporary fashion. Secondly, the Femme fatal image represents bewitching, brutal and narcissistic image with sleek materials and glowing colors in contemporary fashion. Thirdly, the Asexual image means the concept of sex as the neuter gender. Especially, this image has been introduced by simple and straight silhouette, black, silver, khaki colors in fashion. Accordingly, the clothes of game characters with the popularity and formative property have close correlation with contemporary fashion even if they do not pursue for practical creativity. In this respect, they can consolidate the position as a new fashion trend if they are developed with various design ideas.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.343-349
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• 2015

This paper aims to propose the typology suitable for games by analyzing the fashion styles of game characters and define the characteristics by type. The data collected was classified into the style groups with similarities, and the game character styles were named using representative terms. Then, five styles were identified and analyzed with the focus on clothing, hairstyle, and accessories: Creative Style, Attractive Style, Grotesque Style, Usual Style, and Suit Style. Creative Style was the unique style with partial addition or removal as the creative design. Attractive Style expressed the sexual attraction by design with significant exposure of body parts and skintight design. Grotesque Style showed grotesque, eerie, and dreary design. Usual Style was a plain and practical style. Finally, Suit Style was a kind of armor covering the whole body. The analysis results in this paper will bridge the difference of opinions between gamers and developers related to fashion style and, finally, help to enhance the competitiveness of game design.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.373-380
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• 2017

We propose the SoMA(System of Making Avatars) based on a commercial 3D game engine. It first decomposes a given character into assemblable pieces, then gives the user them as prefab components so that he or she can reassemble and/or customize them to be plenty of characters. To accomplish this, it implements the character assembly structure as an hierarchy, the upper levels of which are categorized for gross assembly, and the lower levels of which are parameterized for detailed customization. It also defines a hierarchical naming convention for ease of access to the structure. Finally, it provides body, clothes, and attachment systems to make relevant characters.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.309-316
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• 2015

The styles by character type in customizing systems were analyzed, being classified into creative style, attractive style, grotesque style, usual style, and suit style on the basis of the 'fashion style types of game characters' proposed in the previous research. The creative and convergent designs that couldn't be implemented in reality were expressed in various forms because those designs were created in virtual space, one feature of games. The analysis of the fashion styles of characters was focused on the RPG using the characters with exaggerated body proportions beyond the general body proportions in reality and the features on game characters that were identified by gamers. Thus, the creative style and attractive style showed a high frequency. The common features were identified because the costume designs and colors for characters are generally selected in accordance with the gamers' requests or by reflecting the view on the world. However, it was difficult to find out the representative cases for hair designs and colors because of excessively diverse expressions. The results of this paper will be a valuable reference for the research on the fashion item development manual satisfying the gamers' personalities and requests and relevant research.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.57 no.3 s.112
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• pp.63-77
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to apply fashion design to developing dress design of mobile-phone game characters. As for the research methodology, first, market research has been carried out to extract main images from dress designs of game characters and to understand their socio-cultural meanings. Second, the fashion design, which ran be compared to the extracted images of game characters were selected. Third, analyses were done to find out the gap between the game character's dress designs and the fashion designs. The main images of game characters are revealed as erotic, romantic, heroic, grotesque. These images have been formed by psychological and socio-cultural effects such as stimulation, empathy, compensation, increase of female game player. The differences between the game character's dresses and the fashion designs are as follows; With regard to style, game dresses have silhouette distinguished from background, but fashion collection have blurred silhouette. In the aspect of color, while strong colors are mainly used in game dress, neutral rotors are preferred in fashion collection. As for texture, the expression of 'textures in game character's dress is so far limited due to the insufficient level of the concerned technology. However, the fashion design applying drape of fabrics are well-developed. Mobile-phone game players want reality in game design. Therefore, the effort to overcome the gaps between game dress and fashion design can contribute to the growth of game character design.