• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.61-63
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• 2007

아이덴티티(identity)는 퍼스낼리티(personality)로서 자신을 총체적으로 통합시켜 경쟁시대에 차별 화를 위한 새로운 이미지 정착의 수단으로 중요시 되고 있다. 본 연구는 각 캐릭터들 간의 다양성과 시각적 통일성 요소들을 파악하여 동질성 인지를 통한 캐릭터 아이덴티티를 확립하는 기초정보 제공에 목적이 있다. 따라서 범주화, 전형성 인지 과정에 관련된 선행연구를 바탕으로 캐릭터 인지의 형태적 대표성을 나타낼 수 있는 전형적 요소들이 있다는 가설 하에 사례분석을 통한 조형적 요소의 특징을 분류하였다. 또한 캐릭터 그룹 간의 아이덴티티를 나타낼 수 있는 형태적 요소의 범위를 파악하였으며, 기초설문조사를 바탕으로 캐릭터의 형태 인지에 따른 빈도분석 결과 형태 인지의 우선 순위는 얼굴, 눈 코 입, 면, 아웃라인 순으로 분석 되었다. 향후 캐릭터의 형태적 요소에 기인한 실증분석을 통해 캐릭터 아이덴티티를 실현하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.93-100
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• 2011

The necessity of research on extracting information of face and facial components in animation characters have been increasing since they can effectively express the emotion and personality of characters. In this paper, we introduce a method to extract face and facial components of animation characters by defining a mesh model adequate for characters and by using dominant colors. The suggested algorithm first generates a mesh model for animation characters, and extracts dominant colors for face and facial components by adapting the mesh model to the face of a model character. Then, using the dominant colors, we extract candidate areas of the face and facial components from input images and verify if the extracted areas are real face or facial components by means of color similarity measure. The experimental results show that our method can reliably detect face and facial components of animation characters.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.99-110
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• 2020

This study was conducted as follows. First, the game character design elements have been arranged so that the player's personality can be reflected in the character customizing. Second, the importance of design elements in mobile games and video games was derived through AHP. Third, through the difference in importance, the direction of character customizing improvement was suggested. External appearance in mobile games and the action in video games is evaluated as overwhelmingly important. Therefore, it is necessary to diversify the appearance in mobile games and the action in video games.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.131-163
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• 2007

Recently, the importance of 'character' is widely acknowledged by practitioners and academic arena. Character is the archetype of design product. Unfortunately, however, there have been limited character design studies. The purpose of this study is to identify the components of character design and then to verify the causal relationships among them. The research model of the current study is developed based upon the past studies on the consumer response model related to the product design. The result of the study shows that the dimensions of character design are converged into upper dimensions, including such as character appearance, character image, and character attachment with each lower dimensions, respectively. An analysis of relationship among these variables indicates that while the character appearance tends to trigger character image, the character image leads to character attachment. In addition, both the character image and the character attachment have a positive influence on the loyalty of the character. Understanding of the paths among consumers' responses will be able to be a good guideline for establishing character design strategy. And, finally, the authors discuss some theoretical contributions and managerial implications.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.311-312
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• 2015

시대에 따라 스크린에 훌륭한 애니메이션 작품들이 존재해왔다. 이를 통해 수많은 훌륭한 애니메이션 캐릭터들도 함께 탄생하였다. 이러한 캐릭터의 이미지 특징들은 성격의 명암이 뚜렷하고, 시간이 흘러도 늙거나 변치 않는다는 요소들을 가지고 있다. 스토리는 캐릭터를 완성한다. 그러나 다른 한편으로는 캐릭터가 스토리의 완성도를 높이게 됨을 부인할 수 없다. 애니메이션 캐릭터가 가지는 성격의 중요성은 아무도 부정할 수 없다. 애니메이션에서 어떻게 뚜렷한 성격과 개성을 가진 캐릭터를 묘사를 해왔는지 본 논문은 시대에 따른 캐릭터 묘사의 요소를 분석하여, 캐릭터의 성격과 개성의 묘사방법을 찾아 보고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.63-71
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• 2007

From several commercialized games the technique of changing facial expressions is imported, and a design method of a game character for the player's empathy is expected to be diversified in the future. In this paper, as a design method of a game character for the player's empathy, this makes walking motion for the game character applied with 'human-emotion' factors as statistics variation of a game character in RPG genre. After this paper implements analyzed emotions of human facial expression and walking motions applied with emotion in examples of character animation theory, this paper divides walking motion applied with human-emotion factors into 8 types through relationship to statistics factors in RPG genre. And then these are applied to a knight character, which has the most similarity with human's physical feature of the game characters in RPG genre, and makes walking motion as variable statistics. As a game player controls the game character applied with 'human-emotion' factors, the effect of the player's empathy about the game character becomes higher, and the level of immersion in game play is also expected to increase.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.161-164
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• 2001

캐릭터의 자동 생성이란 영상처리 기법을 이용하여 사람의 얼굴에서 특징을 추출하고, 이 특징들을 기반으로 독특한 캐릭터를 자동으로 얻어내는 방법을 의미한다. 본 논문에서는 사람마다의 얼굴의 특성에 기반한 캐릭터를 자동으로 생성하기 위하여 얼굴의 각 구성요소들의 특징을 효과적으로 추출하기 위한 방법을 제시한다. 얼굴을 구성하는 각각의 요소들의 특징을 추출하고, 추출된 특징을 바탕으로 각 구성요소에 해당하는 데이터베이스를 검색하여 특징을 잘 표현할 수 있는 그림을 선택한다. 최종적으로 선택된 그림들은 원 이미지의 비율에 맞도록 재구성하여 얼굴 캐릭터를 생성한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.178-183
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• 2005

It is said that today is an era of total cord characterized by the transition from the industrial society to the knowledge based and information one. In this age of total cord, the most complex media production is the game industry. In the game industry, game character as one of the elements of game production is the most important because it contains visual elements created through interaction with a user. Initial creation of characters in the game industry is considered having the most value-adding element. Character creation in game production begins with basic drawings, like a diffusive property of the production elements, and proceeds to complicated 2D game character illustration and 3D game character production. In addition, only when driving forces for game development such as individuality and virtual reality are based on different mind cord from existing one, foundation for it will be firmly established. Therefore, it is clear that understanding of the Importance of character illustration and original drawings in the game production is essential to successfully produce more perfect 3D game characters.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.47-56
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• 2010

This study analyzes MMORPG in user's desire perspective and tried to find specific motivation factors. In research result, character has been separated in user character, another user character, boss monster and support character. And character's factor analysis yielded three factors: visual attraction, psychological propensity and competence. The result of the regression analysis about character's motivation factor show that it is significantly different that motivation level and motivation factors from each character. This finding implies that specific motivation factors can serve to make strategy for motivate user's game playing.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.105-113
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• 2019

This study is to analyze the concentration of visual perception of the subject through the eye-tracking experiments targeting popular characters and to investigate it is effective to highlight which part of the character in inducing consumers' interest and curiosity. As a result of the study, the subjects paid more attention to the face than the character's body, and also noted a little attention to auxiliary elements such as pants, tees, shoes, and whiskers. These results mean there is clearly different factor in which the subject's gaze on the character frequently stays and does for a long time. Therefore, the designers should recognize the differences of the concentration of visual perception by character components as a differentiating factor to feel the emotional satisfaction such as the user's interest, empathy, and immersion in the character and actively reflect it when developing the character design. In addition, there was a difference in the visual perception concentration of each of the auxiliary elements, and if careful research is done on whether the influence factors are also due to individual characteristics or another influential factors, it will be a wider study on character design.