Keyword

character design

Description: The visual development of fictional or representational characters for media such as comics, animation, games, and illustration.

Primary topic: Digital Media and Visual Art (40%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q28106677

OpenAlex ID: keywords/character-design

Game design and learning: a conjectural analysis of how massively multiple online role-playing games (MMORPGs) foster intrinsic motivation

2006 · Michele D. Dickey · Educational Technology Research and Development · 386

Believable Social and Emotional Agents.

1996 · W. Scott Neal Reilly · 378

Reading text from computer screens

1987 · Carol Bergfeld Mills, Linda J. Weldon · ACM Computing Surveys · 253

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Learning by Feeling: Evoking Empathy With Synthetic Characters

2005 · Ana Paiva, João Dias, et al. · Applied Artificial Intelligence · 180

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Computational design of linkage-based characters

2014 · Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 142

Dramatic Presence

1993 · Margaret Thomas Kelso, Peter Weyhrauch, et al. · PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality · 140

Towards the Automatic Anime Characters Creation with Generative Adversarial Networks

2017 · Jin, Yanghua, Zhang, Jiakai, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 128

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To stylize or not to stylize?

2015 · Eduard Zell, Carlos Aliaga, et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 128

Exploring Emotional Attachment to Game Characters

2019 · Julia Ayumi Bopp, Livia J. Müller, et al. · Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play · 116

From user to character

2002 · Lene Nielsen · ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) · 116

Computer puppetry

1998 · D.J. Sturman · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications · 112

Avoiding the uncanny valley in virtual character design

2018 · Valentin Schwind, Katrin Wolf, et al. · interactions · 111

Animating student engagement: The impacts of cartoon instructional videos on learning experience

2019 · Chelsea Liu, Philip Elms · Research in Learning Technology · 109

Japanese Culture Through Videogames

2019 · Rachael Hutchinson · Routledge eBooks · 95

Perception of psychopathy and the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters

2013 · Angela Tinwell, Deborah Abdel Nabi, et al. · Computers in Human Behavior · 74

Children’s future parasocial relationships with media characters: the age of intelligent characters

2016 · Kaitlin L. Brunick, Marisa M. Putnam, et al. · Journal of Children and Media · 71

The Many Faces of Internationalization in Japanese Anime

2008 · Amy Shirong Lu · Animation · 71

Is there an uncanny valley of virtual animals? A quantitative and qualitative investigation

2017 · V. Schwind, K. Leicht, et al. · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies · 69

How creative cute characters affect purchase intention

2022 · Cheih-Ying Chen, Kun-Huang Huarng, et al. · Journal of Business Research · 68

Interactive Storytelling for Video Games: A Player-Centered Approach to Creating Memorable Characters and Stories

2011 · Josiah Lebowitz, Chris Klug · 67

Mass Effect 2

2012 · Jim Bizzocchi, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum · Bulletin of Science Technology & Society · 64

Creative Character Design

2012 · Bryan Tillman · Routledge eBooks · 58

A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse

2008 · Stephen Jay Gould · Ecotone · 56

The Fundamentals of Animation

2016 · Paul Wells, Samantha Moore · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks · 53

Building Characters: Lessons Drawn from Virtual Environments

2005 · Vinayagamoorthy, Anthony Steed, et al. · 53

Works count: 11,000

Citation count: 8,300