An Exploration of Delsarte’s Structural Acting System

Marsella, Stacy; Carnicke, Sharon Marie; Gratch, Jonathan; Okhmatovskaia, Anna; Rizzo, Albert

doi:10.1007/11821830_7

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“…However, it turned out that, contrary to our expectations, the expressions of the experienced actors were perceived as even more extreme than those of the participants without an education in and professional experience with acting. Naturally, it can be claimed that if the actors would be trained using, say, the Stanislavski method or if they had a background in method acting they might display more subtle expressions (e.g., Scherer, 2003;Marsella et al, 2006), or alternatively that expressions that are elicited using extensive scenarios (Enos & Hirschberg, 2006) would be more realistic. But surely one would expect that expressions from experienced actors would at least go some way in the more realistic direction, which is clearly not what we found.…”

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On the role of acting skills for the collection of simulated emotional speech

Krahmer

Swerts

2008

Interspeech 2008

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On the role of acting skills for the collection of simulated emotional speech. In Proceedings of the international conference on spoken language processing (Interspeech 2008) (pp. 261-264). ISCA. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

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On the role of acting skills for the collection of simulated emotional speech

Krahmer

Swerts

2008

Interspeech 2008

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“…In their work, they verified Delsarte's model, specifically hand movements [23]. Delsarte was a 19 th century musician who developed an acting system that connected the internal state of an actor to a formalized set of gestures and movements.…”

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Exploring Non-verbal Behavior Models for Believable Characters

El-Nasr

Wei

2006

Interactive Storytelling

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Abstract. Believable characters constitute an important component of interactive stories. It is, therefore, not surprising to see much research focusing on developing algorithms that enhance character believability within interactive experiences, such as games, interactive narrative, and training environments. These efforts target a variety of problems, including portraying and synchronizing gestures with speech, developing animation tools that allow artists to manipulate and blend motions, or embed emotions within virtual character models. There has been very little research, however, devoted to the study of non-verbal behaviors, specifically mannerisms, patterns of movement including postures, gaze, and timing, and how they vary as a function of character attributes. This paper presents a work in progress of a study conducted to (1) identify key character characteristics recognized by animators using an acting model, and (2) formalize non-verbal behaviors patterns that animators use to express these character characteristics.

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“…Delsarte system has been already used for the generation of virtual agents motions. 6,28 Sign Language descriptions. The notion of decomposing signs into various components is not new to the linguistic community.…”

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Challenges for the Animation of Expressive Virtual Characters: The Standpoint of Sign Language and Theatrical Gestures

Gibet

Carreno‐Medrano

Marteau

2015

Dance Notations and Robot Motion

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Designing and controlling virtual characters endowed with expressive gestures requires the modeling of multiple processes, involving high-level abstract representations to lowlevel sensorimotor models. An expressive gesture is here defined as a meaningful bodily motion which intrinsically associates sense, style, and expressiveness. The main challenges rely both on the capability to produce a large spectrum of parametrized actions executed with some variability in various situations, and on the biological plausibility of the motion of the virtual characters. The goals of the paper are twofold. First we review the different formalisms used to describe expressive gestures, from notations to computational languages. Secondly we identify and discuss remaining challenges in the generation of expressive virtual characters. The different models and formalisms are illustrated more particularly for theatrical and sign language gestures.

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An Exploration of Delsarte’s Structural Acting System

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

On the role of acting skills for the collection of simulated emotional speech

On the role of acting skills for the collection of simulated emotional speech

Exploring Non-verbal Behavior Models for Believable Characters

Challenges for the Animation of Expressive Virtual Characters: The Standpoint of Sign Language and Theatrical Gestures

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