«Invited Lecture» High Realistic Contents that Make Audience Dive Into the Movie

Abstract

We have proposed a new movie contents style which makes all audience participate in the story as a movie casts and give an experience of immersive sensation into the story. In 2005, at Mitsui-Toshiba pavilion of Aichi Expo., Future Cast System is implemented first in the world and 1,630,000 people have experienced the sensational contents “Grand Odyssey”. This system is commercially succeeded as Future Cast Theater at HUIS TEN BOSCH, Nagasaki in 2007. It is very important factor to succeed to customize CG character full automatically and instantly without any stress to the audience. In this paper, we propose new character customization method with full automatic reflection of personality in facial expression, body size, gait, voice quality and hair style in a few minutes. Also real-time full body motion synthesis and rendering including hair is realized and as a result self-awareness rate at which one can recognize himself in the screen improves almost 90% comparing with 59% of EXPO.2005.