The Relationship Between the Pose of Virtual Character and Virtual Character’s Personality: The Animation Software Preset Posture

In the psychologic area, the researchers discovered that the realisticness of a character can be improved by the posture, facial expression, and voice. Since the posture of a virtual character is a key element for animation when a dramatic story is being produced, this research focuses on the effect of different virtual character postures. This research uses the big five model, the BFI-44 questionnaire, for participants to evaluate the personality of five virtual character postures. These five postures were built based on common preset postures from major 3D model software. The experimental results evidenced that a participant’s view of the personality of the virtual character is affected by the whole body posture. There were significant differences among postures in terms of openness, extroversion, and neuroticism traits, but these were not the case for postures suggesting conscientiousness and agreeableness traits. Thus, the virtual character design could be improved by crafting the personality of the character through different postures as suggested in this paper.