• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.411-419
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• 2024

The final purpose of this study is to find a method of projecting the characteristics and attractiveness of actual actor's facial expressions onto avatars based on facial capture technology to improve facial expressions of digital actors. Metaverse performances can create various situations without time and space constraints, providing new cultural experiences to the audience watching them. However, it is also true that in current metaverse performances, digital actors' facial expressions are partially vulnerable to conveying emotions. It also acts as one of the factors that interfere with the audience's immersion. One of the problems is that not all avatars have unique characteristics outwardly, so the lack of differentiation is also one of the problems. To overcome these limitations, we propose a method of modeling the actual actor's facial expressions with 3D scans to create a morph target and applying it to avatars using facial capture technology.