3DAS presentation july 18 2013

INSTANT PERSONALIZED 3D GAME CHARACTERS

Photo-Realistic or Stylized 3D Reconstruction

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3D Avatar Store technology:•3D Reconstructions from photos of real people•WEB API and WEB App access•3D games go from semi-realistic characters to recognizable photo-realistic characters of actual game participants•Maximizes game immersion experience and game franchise / brand loyalty

EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW

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The concept of photo realistic personalized 3D Avatars is not new. How our company has approached the business and the cutting edge technology behind it is.

In years past, the primary obstacles were the return on the technological investment; that the technology created would ultimately prove inflexible; that the end result would be poor quality; or that the personalized avatar creation process would take too much time given today’s consumers need for instant gratification.

Our company has eliminated all of these barriers creating a service that is platform and device agnostic.

Affordable personalized game characters are used for:

• In-game play• High resolution cut scenes• Social interconnectivity• Personalized merchandising• Personalized Advertising


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Why is a Personalized Avatar important?

Personalized avatars give your game a new dimension and a competitive edge against your competition. They are a value-add that adds new revenues to your bottom line. Monetize them on an per-Avatar sale basis. Gamers playing as themselves, or alongside others they can visually recognize (as friend or foe) establish deeper levels of immersion into your storyline and franchise universe, significantly increasing brand loyalty in the process.

Personalized Avatars generate additional media buzz and increase social interactions between players.

This all adds up to increased time spent on playing your game and ongoing success with your next product release.


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From one 2D source photo

The entire range of human emotions can be created… enabling in-game reactions to changing conditions

As social interactions between players becomes increasingly important, your gamers can receive personalized emoticons as still images or animated gifs for use on social networks


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Because we also output STL files, new revenues can be generated through the sale of 3D printed game characters and 3D printed achievement trophies

Source 3d output posed 3d print


Our technology began with the taking of tens of thousands of high-res laser scans of real people, across all ages, genders and ethnic backgrounds.

This is the reference geometry our neural nets are trained.


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In addition to laser scans, photos of the same people, taken at a range of angles, varying quality cameras and lighting conditions, enabled us to generate a neural net link between your photo and the pieces & parts of the 3-D face geometries in our database of tens of thousands of real person laser scans


Once the selected facial parts are assembled your face is the result.

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Texture map

Created geometry

Animation ready “you”From one 2D source photo


Neural Net based WebApp & WebAPIPhoto-Realistic 3D Reconstructions

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From one 2D source photo uploaded from any

internet enabled device

Trained neural nets

Lightning fast output.Under one second from source

photo to creation of your custom game character

All that is required is (1) source photo (2) internet connection

RESTful WebAPI

3D Avatar Store


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Example #4Your geometry, in your game,

with your gamer’s faces

Example output #3.

From one front facing photo, in under one second,

we generate a photo-real personalized game character

fit to your game engine’s requirements,

ready for immediate immersive personalized play

Example output #1 Example output #2 “stunt double”aimed at film makers, PreVis and advertising applications

Created for client game studio for mobile applications

For whenever high precision accuracy is required

All outputs generate 1024x1024 texture maps

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Our real-time geometry also includes full body skin-tone

corrected textures, matched to the skin tone found in the

gamer’s photo, so your gamer’s body, arms, hands, legs and feet

all have matching skin tone.



Our system generates models with identical topologies

As a result all Personalized Characters can morph• Simplifies in-game facial expression systems• Allows easier character transformation sequences• Enables development of “smart” shaders from facial knowledge

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Due to our technology’s flexibility, we can output 3D personalized game characters that are:

Photo-realistic Anime Comic book Anthropomorphic Any stylized representation your designers can dream up!

We enable creative freedom as our neural nets can be retrained to generate your designs

Besides accuracy, speed, and output flexibility, we blow the competition away:


Source images for 3D personalized game characters can come from:

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•Single Photo 3D Reconstructions

•Multi-Photo 3D Reconstructions

•Perspective distortion correction

•Facial orientation recovery

•Skin and hair tones recovery

•Facial illumination analysis

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We provide everything your developers need to have complete knowledge and control over your gamer’s uploaded photo

Our WebAPI provides:


Our stunt-performer output comes with a professional performance animation Maya rig with over 120 facial animation morph targets


Because we’re neural net based, we’re super fast: •New reconstructions complete in under 1 second•Refinements complete in under 0.6 seconds


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3D output From one 2D source photofor theatrical use

On account of skull shape geometry being different between children (pre-puberty) and adults, we have a separate trained neural net for this purpose. Children can now see themselves within interactive games, media content, books and augmented reality applications alongside stories and characters they identify with.


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Each of our custom designed “heavy iron” servers handles 25,000 unique avatar creations per hour.

Our technology is scalable so we can meet any demand necessary.

All 3-D character outputs are both platform and device agnostic.


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5,542 polygon stunt performer with 1024 x 1024 texture map

Reconstructed in under 1 second

3-D character output


Source 2-D photo

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3-D character output Source 2-D photo


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3D output From one 2D source photofor theatrical use


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Real-time model: 780 polygons with a 1024 x 1024 texture map+ 5 additional full body 1024 x 1024 skin tone corrected texture maps


3D output From one 2D source photofor mobile apps


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Our expert staff have extensive experience in:

•AAA 3-D game title development, •Major release Hollywood feature film visual effects, •Internet scaling systems engineering.

We continue to expand and enhance our 3-D avatar technology integration offerings in areas such as:

•Real-time facial motion capture, •Text-to-speech facial animation, •Audio-file to facial animation,•Custom development to support our business partnerships.

We look forward to becoming a strategic technology supplier that can help you reach your business goals.


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Thank you!


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