Generative AI for Avatar Animations and Emotes - Democratizing Creation

Explore the cutting-edge world of generative emotes and AI animation for avatars in this 46-minute conference talk featuring Yassine Tahi, CEO of Kinetix. Dive into the democratization of character animation creation, learning about the platform that allows individual creators to capture movement and make avatar animations available through a marketplace. Discover how end-users can invoke these animations using text-to-animation generative prompting. Uncover the complex technological challenges involved, including motion capture with standard cameras, animation adjustment for different environments, data labeling for generative AI, and ensuring interoperability across various games and metaverse platforms. Gain insights into the creator economy, the future of generative animation, and its applications in popular platforms like Zepeto, Inworld, The Sandbox, Fortnite, and NextDancer.

Introduction
Democratizing Animation
Fortnite Emote Revenue
State of Text-to-emote Prompts
Deep Learning for Motion
Motion Capture Technology
AI NPCs, Inworld
Constraints of GenAI Animation
Avatar Codecs
Exponential AI Improvements
Creator Economy
Interoperability
The Future of Generation Animation