The Design Process for Enhancing Visual Expressive Qualities of Characters from Performance Capture into Virtual Reality

Abstract

In designing performances for virtual reality one must consider the unique qualities of the VR medium in order to deliver expressive character performance. This means that the design requirements for participant engagement and immersion must evolve to address these new possibilities. To address the need for evolving an expressive character performance for VR, a five step production framework is proposed which addresses steps of directing, performance capture, the cyclical stages of retargeting and animation refinement and movement translation to avatars in VR.