The Believability of Hyper Realistic Characters in Animated Movies
The Believability of Hyper Realistic Characters in Animated Movies
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动画电影中超现实角色的可信度
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2015
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Richard Hetherington
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作者：
Richard Hetherington
在一项试点研究中，参与者被要求观看一组短片摘录，其中包含一名人类演员的表演，以及 5 个具有不同人类相似性和怪诞性的动画角色。观看后，使用量表来估计某些视觉、动作和听觉角色特征的可信度，并获得角色被感知的可信度的总体印象。还收集并分析了与观众对角色可信度的评估相关的定性数据。
与人类演员相比，所有动画角色的面部和身体外观以及动作的可信度都较低，并且对更像人类的动画角色的这些特征的感知比对非人类、怪异角色和人类演员的感知表现出更大的可变性。然而，总体看法表明，所有测试的角色都被认为是可信的，而不是令人难以置信的，并且他们能够与大多数参与者实现某种形式的情感接触。定性数据分析表明，其他因素对于影响人物可信度的判断也很重要，特别是可以在电影内部或外部发挥作用的背景。这些发现与观众用来确定动画角色可信度的标准进行了讨论，并且建议未来的工作来检查角色可信度相对于整个动画电影的重要性。
In a pilot study, participants were asked to watch sets of short movie excerpts featuring performances of a human actor, and 5 animated characters of varying human likeness and eeriness. After viewing, scales were used to estimate the believability of certain visual, motion and aural character traits and to gain an overall impression of how believable a character was perceived as being. Qualitative data relating to viewers assessments of character believability were also collected and analysed.
The believability of facial and bodily appearance and movement was less in all the animated characters compared with the human actor, and perceptions of these characteristics for the more humanlike animated characters showed greater variability than those for a non-humanlike, eerie character and the human actor. However, overall perceptions indicated that all characters tested were regarded as believable rather than unbelievable, and that they were able to achieve some form of emotional engagement with most of the participants. Analysis of qualitative data indicated that other factors were important in influencing the judgement of character believability, particularly context, which could operate inside or outside the movie. These findings are discussed in relation to the criteria viewers use to determine the believability of animated characters, and future work is proposed to examine the importance of character believability in relation to the animated movie as a whole.