• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.42
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• pp.177-194
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• 2016

This study investigated an evolutionary process of In-game Animation and researched on the action of realization establishing virtual reality. In-game Animation, functioning as contents to visualize games, is responsible for conveying information to achieve goals of games. In-game Animation which is affected by graphic technology was initiated with setting up indicators by dot and line. Followed by the development of technology, In-game Animation has pursued realization, after passing through processes of iconography, materialization, and dimensionalization. The realization of In-game Animation does not simply imitate the real world but creates meaning of reality by establishing space with various factors such as characters and background along with the story, under the premise of virtuality. The realization of In-game Animation is very important to provide the experience of immersion, as it forms a sense of presence through such visual tactility. The process to create meaning of reality provides gamers with experiences, and leads them to expand senses through visual perception and finally absorb the virtuality as reality. Therefore, the image of In-game Animation does not simply imitate the real world but creates meaning of reality by establishing space with various factors such as characters and background along with the story, under the premise of virtuality. The realization of In-game Animation is not limited to blindly portray a realistic image. In addition, the process of realization pursued by In-game Animation is an action to immerse in the game rather than a mere product of technological development.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.33
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• pp.531-549
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• 2013

Action games exhibit all the specific constellation of masochism, such as disavowal, suspense, waiting, fetishism, and fantasy. These characteristics of action games can be analyzed with respect to masochism. This study conducted an analysis excluding sadism as much as possible, as sadism is a result of etiological misconception as opposed to masochism. However, comparative analysis is included in the study so that action games are not seen as demonstrating sadism. Games create a space for virtual interaction for main agents by connecting gamer-existence and game-character in the framework of a contract. The interaction of visual tactility within this space creates a system of difference in pleasure. Masochism enables one to attain pleasure in a world created himself or herself using fetishism in contractual relationships such as the ones exhibited in games. This shows that action games and masochism are mutually related. This paper analyzed the ontology of action games using actual examples of action games. The paper concluded that action games lead to the fulfillment of masochistic pleasure.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.470-478
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• 2017

Costume play is an act of imitating the appearance or behavior of characters in digital games, cartoons or animations. In recent years, cosplay culture has become popular in China as the digital game is made into a movie. The number of cosers has also increased. Especially, Qiwei Zoe has been very popular among cosers because her cosplay photography reflects the understanding of the cosplay culture. A number of cosers admit that her work shows a commercial and artistic potential of cosplay photography. This paper analyzed how she maintains the contents of the original but creatively reimplementing them. She shoots the fantastic image of the character like it really exists in reality so that she can avoid excessive editing work. She emphasizes the character's action that symbolizes its personality and utilizes a variety of outdoor shooting locations similar to the original scenes. We also discussed how cosplay photographers can create cosplay photography by maintaining its artistic features.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.731-732
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• 2023

언리얼 엔진 기반의 메타버스나 실시간 게임 환경에서 캐릭터의 맞춤형 동작이 필요한 경우가 있다. 본 논문은 모션 디퓨전 모델을 활용하여 특정 동작을 자동 생성하는 기능을 제공하는 언리얼 엔진 플러그인을 제시한다. 특히 사용자가 텍스트로 신체 동작이나 감정 표현을 기술해 입력값으로 제공하면 서버에서 모션 디퓨전 모델로 애니메이션을 실시간으로 생성한 후, 언리얼엔진 클라이언트에서 후처리하여 사용자의 캐릭터에 실시간으로 적용하는 방식으로 구현했다.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.48
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• pp.249-269
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• 2017

Promotion and marketing, which are essential to lower the investment risk and maximize commercial profit in the video game market. Game developers and publishers set up public relations strategies to encourage potential consumers' needs. Considering characteristics of video game, the trailer, which is the animated image advertisement material, could occupy a key position in its promotion and marketing plan. Cinematic spectacles and attractive narratives are essential ingredients for game trailers, which are usually produced in 3D animation. Dead Island is an open world first person shooters (FPS) game released in 2011. When launched, it grabbed a great attention with a trailer, awarded the Golden Lion Prize for the best internet film at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The game was a commercial success and several spin-offs were producted. In 2014, its publisher, Deep Silver showed the official trailer of Dead Island 2 at Electronic Entertainment Expo, the world's largest game show. Dead Island 2 was scheduled to be released in 2016, but has been now delayed until 2018. This study compares and analyzes two trailers of Dead Island 1 and Dead Island 2. We examine the narrative structure of the trailer for the sequel promotion of a successful game. The differences between the two could be useful for building a promotion strategy of other game series.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.91-101
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• 2008

Most designers use professional 3D animation tools such as 3DS MAX to manually create animation. This manual method requires a great deal of time and efforts, and does not allow animation characters to interact with one another. In this paper, we design an AI middleware of form as 3DS MAX plug-in to solve these issues. We present an AI expression structure and internal processing method for this middleware, and the method for creating AI character's structure. It creates AI character's structure by drawing figures and lines for representing AI elements. For experiment, we have produced same animations with the traditional method and our method, and measured the task volume in both methods. This result verifies that the task volume is similar or higher than the traditional method in small-scale tasks, but up to 43% of the task volume is reduced in large-scale tasks. Using the method proposed in this paper, we see that characters in an animation interact each other, and task volume in large-scale tasks are reduced.

• Journal of Game and Entertainment
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.15-23
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• 2006

In this paper, we present a case of making LOGO animation using particles with MAYA, a 3D computer graphics packages of Autodesk Inc. We composite a visual which shows a similar effects with a information movie of Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games. By analysing the movie, we model a human body part as a set of cubes and animated the cubes to have dynamic visuals which shows similar visuals with the movie. All the system is implemented with MAYA MEL scripts. The system shows various visual effects by controlling options available in the designed UI.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.639-642
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• 2002

오늘날 영화, 게임, 애니메이션 등 다양한 분야에서 사용되고 있는 군중 장면은 모델러의 많은 수작업을 필요로 한다. 모델러에게 있어 배경과 배경 물체들 그리고 수많은 에이전트들을 적절히 배치해야 하며, 매 프레임마다 이들 간에 충돌이 얼도록 적절히 움직여 주어야 하는 수작업은 비능률 적이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 군중 장면 연출 도구를 제작하여 군중들을 배치할 수 있는 방법과, 배경 물체들과 군중 사이 그리고 군중을 이루는 에이전트들 사이의 충돌 회피 방법을 제시한다. 이를 통해 모델러는 군중을 일일이 배치하고, 매 프레임마다 군중을 적절히 움직여 주어야 하는 수작업에 드는 시간을 모델링에 투자함으로 작업 효율을 높일 수 있다. 또한 본 논문의 군중 장면 연출도구는 마야 플러그인으로 개발되어 대표적인 모델링 도구인 마야와 연동하여 군중 장면을 연출할 수 있는 장점을 가진다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.677-689
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• 2013

This paper derives the evaluation indicators relating to the mechanism and success factors of culture industrial cluster from the successful cases of culture industry in foreign countries and provides policy implications for the successful construction of culture industrial cluster by comparing with the survey of Gwang-Ju city's culture content companies. This paper shows that policy implications are linkage by leading firm of successful companies, securing huge hinterlands nearby metro city, cultivating of creative talented persons, operating of capital funds, promoting main force business(game, animation, mobile)-oriented culture industry, positive vitalization of network, role strengthening of city or Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency as vision provider, and aggressive granting of incentives for attracting companies.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.40
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• pp.337-365
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• 2015

The objective of this study proposes the new user's addiction model in 'Social Network Games' (SNGs). Research model is derived from the separation of two characteristics. First one is logical characteristics that includes 'Functional' (F), 'Keystroke' (K), and 'Goal' (G). Second one is feeling characteristics that consists a few factors such as 'Emotion' (E), 'Social' (S), and 'Affection' (A). For the pre-test, a total of 30 participants responded to survey in order to inspect the fitness of research questionnaire, roughly validity of the proposed model, and the direction of this reseach. After that for the main test, a total 300 users participated in this research. The final number of effective participants were 261 because 39 were insincere respondents and without playing SNGs who were excluded. Then we examined the measurement model by performing 'Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modeling' (PLS-SEM) analysis to test the research hypothesis empirically. The results of the measurement and structural model test lend support to the proposed research model by providing a good fit to the construct data. Interestingly, the model showed the significant effects of the interaction between eleven hypothesis(H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6,H7,H8,H9,H10, H12). Only one hypothesis decision t-value not supported that is involved the relationship between SNGs Addiction and Keystroke, H11(1.193). This research expect to contributes to an exploratory SNGs research to clarify the base of addition and will aids understanding of users' behavior associated with SNGs development.