Creative Bloq on MSN

How to use 3D models in concept art

3D has been incredibly useful in all of my concept art and matte painting work in animation, games and movies. Knowing how to ...
Creative Bloq on MSN

This is what makes the most memorable creature designs work

Creature design, for me, is by far one of the most creative parts of imaginative art. Whether you’re sketching with the best ...
IEEE

Advanced Virtual Human Modeling with Metahumans: Focus on Genderless Characters

Abstract: Virtual Humans (VHs) with high levels of anthropomorphism in visual appearance and behavior can enhance user experience in movies, games, and other interactive media. Users often seek ...
IEEE

Char-SAM: Turning Segment Anything Model into Scene Text Segmentation Annotator with Character-level Visual Prompts

Abstract: The recent emergence of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) enables various domain-specific segmentation tasks to be tackled cost-effectively by using bounding boxes as prompts. However, in ...
GitHub

SCAIL: Towards Studio-Grade Character Animation via In-Context Learning of 3D-Consistent Pose Representations

This repository contains the official implementation code for SCAIL (Studio-Grade Character Animation via In-Context Learning), a framework that enables high-fidelity character animation under diverse ...
GitHub

Breaking the Representation Bottleneck of Chinese Characters: Neural Machine Translation with Stroke Sequence Modeling (EMNLP 2022)

We propose StrokeNet, a novel technique for Chinese NMT tasks using Latinized stroke sequence of Chinese characters. StrokeNet breaks the representation learning bottleneck and the parameter ...