2 French Army Avatars Enter The Gallery
Cantoche has developed for the French Army training center 2 3D avatars that will be used to animate the e-learning modules with Living Actor™ Video. The textures of their combat fatigues are real and have been photographed from the last generation fatigues issued by...
5 New Avatars In The www.livingactor.com Gallery!
Our Living Actor™ Gallery includes 5 new male avatars, which brings the total choice to 55 virtual presenters that can be used from the Living Actor™ Presenter gallery ! Two professional outfits have been developed: a Chef and a Doorman, and three semi-realistic...
CGsociety presents Stéphane Israel, 3D artist from Cantoche!
Stéphane Israel, 3D artist at Cantoche has been chosen to illustrate the home page of the famous CGsociety site, one of the most renowned website for 3D creation and it’s worldwide community. Well done Stipen !!!! :). All Cantoche staff and I are really very...
The Michelin Man is the Icon of the Year, says Advertising Week!
The Michelin Man (as know as “Bibendum”) has been awarded the “Icon of the Year” prize by Advertising Week magazine. So as to celebrate his nomination, the Michelin Man and his mascot buddies have been walking down Madison Avenue in New York...
Living Actor Presenter Featured in Viral YouTube Video
Cantoche avatars Henri and Jacky chosen to animate AI vs. AI chatbot dialogue Living Actor ™ Presenter avatars were chosen by Cornell University’s Creative Machines Lab to animate a chatbot dialogue that went viral on YouTube by August 31st. As of today, the YouTube...
7 New Avatars To Discover In The Gallery!
I’d like to introduce you to our 7 new avatars that have recently joined our avatar gallery at www.livingactor.com. As you know, we add new avatars and new features every month in the Living Actor™ Gallery, so stay tuned!
Not Just Another Pretty Face!
Ninety percent of online virtual characters, or avatars, are women… Could it be that virtual females are just better than their male counterparts, or are most uses for avatars today better suited as female representations? Justine Plessier, Project Director at...
Avatars that Maintain User Attention
Sustaining users’ attention while they visit a website or when they interact with a training course is an important endeavor that can directly impact a company’s bottom line or learning. I just finished reading the book Human Attention in Digital Environments and of...
3D Avatars Making of: Meeting with Anh Tu MAI, Art Director
Avatars are elaborate creations that originate from a “simple” 2D design or even a short textual briefing… and end up as sophisticated 3D animated characters. These avatars are defined by many artistic attributes: their graphic style, their animations, their looks,...
Avatars as "virtual reviewers", with Laurent Ach
Hello, I’m happy to invite you today inside the Cantoche R&D Department, headed by Laurent Ach, CTO. Laurent tells us more about a project called MyPresentingAvatar… Laurent Ach manages Cantoche’s technical team that engages in research and development of...
E-learning Avatars: The End of the Multimedia Gimmick… The Era of Avatars!
Multimedia gimmicks were overly (and poorly) used in the early 2000’s in e-learning modules. These gimmicks were often represented by over-excited and childish characters that have nowadays become out-dated. For some of us, they have even symbolized poor and...
Senior Avatars Enter the Gallery!
I’m very happy to introduce the first three senior avatars of the Living Actor™ Presenter Gallery! Please welcome Larry, Henri, and James… These avatars respond to the increasing demand for senior avatars representing more diversity in our organizations. Diversity...
The Avatar, a Social Representation of the Self
What is an Avatar? We can answer this question more easily today due to the media buzz around virtual worlds such as Second Life and the success of James Cameron’s movie, Avatar. However an avatar doesn’t limit itself to a random 3D character lost in an empty...