• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.1128-1141
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• 2009

Graphical expressions are continuously improving, spurred by the astonishing growth of the game technology industry. Despite such improvements, users are still demanding a more natural gaming environment and true reflections of human emotions. In real life, people can read a person's moods from facial color and expression. Hence, interactive facial colors in game characters provide a deeper level of reality. In this paper we propose a facial color adaptive technique, which is a combination of an emotional model based on human emotion theory, emotional expression pattern using colors of animation contents, and emotional reaction speed function based on human personality theory, as opposed to past methods that expressed emotion through blood flow, pulse, or skin temperature. Experiments show this of expression of the Facial Color Model based on facial color adoptive technique and expression of the animation contents is effective in conveying character emotions. Moreover, the proposed Facial Color Adaptive Technique can be applied not only to 2D games, but to 3D games as well.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Floral Art and Design
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• no.41
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• pp.45-59
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• 2019

The characters that could be connected to diverse cultural contents have formed diverse platforms with the development of digital technology, and the size of the relevant industry and market is rapidly growing. Recently, the utilization of character emoticons for smartphone messenger has been rapidly increased, so that the characters are settled down as a tool for non-verbal communication, on top of drawing attention as an independent area. With the expansion of character market, the importance of design that could give interest and familiarity to consumers is more emphasized. The body proportion of characters includes the implicative and symbolic meanings that could express diverse personalities. Thus, this study examined the body proportion of the characters with the high consumers' preference, and then analyzed the characteristics of formative elements of character design in accordance with the body proportion. In the results of the analysis, the exaggerated form of SD characters in two or three-head figure, and the realistic Real characters in seven or eight-head figure were preferred. For the SD characters, the colors with a high chroma showing the cute and cheerful image were used. For the Real characters, the cubic effect was expressed through the colors with active images and the light and shade of color. Even though the SD characters have limited motions due to the omitted body parts, the facial movements of animation characters are exaggerated while the Real characters describe the realistic and dynamic motions.

• Archives of design research
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.87-94
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• 2001

3D character animation grow rapidly with the development of computer graphic technology and software. Nowadays 3D character animation holds a important position in the various industry fields including movie, advertisement, animation, and game. With the rapid growth of computer graphic, real time animation of complex characters as well as high quality rendering, which was impossible before, are now prevailing. What is remarkable in this growth is the appearance of virtual idol. The virtual idol plays a leading role in 3D character animation and has a synergy effect in the field of fancy and theme park industry. The aim of this inquiry is to examine the status of computer graphic skill and media related to the 3D character animation to search out the problems in the fields and to propose the solution of the problems

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.328-331
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• 2010

The ratio of roles, involving characters created by 2D or 3D Graphic Technology, has risen within games, recent animations, movies and the educational sector. However, the "monster character" appears mainly in "Shanghai Ching" and Greek and Roman mythology. To receive worldwide accolade, it is time that we should use our games, movies and animations to present the history and spirit of Korea. I researched Korean myths so as to understand the characteristics a "Korean monster" would need to portray. This also allowed me to visualise the monster and realize the necessary manufacturing processes involved.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.319-328
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• 2015

Domestic kids TV animation industry is settled well in domestic animation industry by adding both entertainment value and educational value. Specially, the character that represents various rolls in the kids TV animation is the core visual element. This study is the analysis for character's subject matter of expression. For this, I established the tool which could classify character's subject matter of expression, and apply the tool to the character which were selected in broadcasting kids TV animations on EBS. Through this procedure, I analyzed character's subject matter of expression with the distribution chart as the final step. In addition, I hope the result of this study could intend to provide the index of the character creation in the kids TV animation and also informed the current situation about the character's subject matter of expression in the kids TV animation.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.451-457
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• 2019

Reflecting the current craze for early childhood education, the demand for learning contents has soared, kids content is emerging as a key topic of the contents industry. The industry developing digital content for young learners is called the 'angel industry', it is attracting a lot of attention because of the increased demand for early childhood education. This paper selects characters used in successful digital products to study character design for OSMU children's educational contents. Through advanced research, analysis criteria were prepared and analyzed to derive general success strategies for character design. As a result, common design features in the analyzed characters were found and confirmed the need for further research. Hopefully, this study will contribute to OSMU character design and lead to improved development of educational contents and commercialization of various characters.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.110-119
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• 2019

is a movie about the frustration and the despair of young people in Korean society today. It is different from the previous Lee Chang-dong's film in that it provides the main character's perception and feelings about the world as the ultimate cause of the protagonist's actions. Lee Chang-dong's characters begin to change from . The main character of Burning goes one step further. He seems to believe that the main character's only weapon to overcome the logic and constraints of reality is obsessive and compulsive behaviors. Unlike previous movies, the character in Burning is a person who practices awareness and proves his character through action. I will analyze characters in to suggest the change of film form. Especially I will look at how the character's actions and the writer's own voice can meet and what results it bring about in this movie. It will lead to his changes in film form and an idea on the young people in Korean society today.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.1-26
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• 2021

Measuring the intangible asset has been vigorously studied for its importance. Especially, the value of character in media industry is difficult to quantitatively evaluate in spite of the industry's rapid growth. Recently, the Social Network Analysis (i.e., SNA) has been actively applied to understand human usage patterns in a media field. By using SNA methodology, this study attempts to investigate how the character network characteristics of media works are linked to human search behaviors. Our analysis reveals the positive correlation and causality between character network centralities and character search data. This result implies that the character network can be used as a clue for the valuation of character assets.

• 프린팅코리아
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.86-89
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• 2014

"니 내랑 부산접수 할래?" 영화 친구2에 나오는 대사다. 영화 속 주인공이 힘으로 부산을 장악하려 했다면 디자인글꼴은 '귀여운 캐릭터'와 '짱짱한 인쇄빨'로 부산을 접수했다. 디자인글꼴(대표 서무성)은 우리나라 제2의 도시 부산에서 독자 개발한 브랜드와 캐릭터로 성장한 디자인전문회사다. 최근에는 부산 지역 최초로 고모리 H-UV 인쇄기 GL-540을 도입하는 등 잇따라 최신 인쇄 설비를 도입하면서 부산 경남지역 최대 '디자인 인쇄전문회사'로 우뚝 섰다.

• Digital Contents
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• no.11 s.126
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• pp.130-133
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• 2003

허영만의 출판만화 ‘망치1, 2’를 원작으로 한 ‘해머보이 망치’가 개봉을 앞두고 있다. 이 작품은 애니메이션 제작사 캐릭터플랜이 3년 간에 걸쳐 200만 달러의 제작비를 들여 80분짜리 극장용 애니메이션으로 재탄생시킨 작품이다. 지진과 해일로 모든 문명이 파괴된 2112년의 지구를 배경으로 개구장이 소년 ‘망치’가 모험을 통해 전설의 기사로 성장해 가는 이야기를 그린 ‘해머보이 망치’는 이미 SICAF 개막작으로 선정돼 1,000여명의 관객들 앞에 상영돼 호응을 받았으며 이제 세계를 무대로 가고 있다. ‘해머보이 망치’가 과도기를 넘어 이제는 만개하기를 기대하는 애니메이션 마니아들의 기대작으로 손색이 없을지 맨발에 구멍난 철모, 작은 망치하나 들고 지구를 지키러 나선 망치가 이끄는 모험의 세계에 빠져보자.