Generative Emotes for Avatars | AI Animation | Yassine Tahi, CEO Kinetix

One of the fastest growing areas of creative expression in games has been the emotes and animations you can apply to your character in games like Fortnite. Yassine Tahi saw this realm of self-expression coming, and created a platform that democratizes the creation of character animations.

With Kinetix, individual creators can capture movement and make their avatar animations available through a marketplace--and end-users can invoke them through text-to-animation generative prompting. This requires a huge number of challenging technology problems to be solved: motion capture with a normal camera that maps to the character rig; adjusting animation to the geometry and physics of an environment; labeling the data in a way that generative AI technology can make use of it; and then making animations interoperable across different games, virtual worlds and metaverse platforms. Some of the games and platforms we discuss include Zepeto, Inworld, The Sandbox Fortnite and NextDancer.

00:00 Introduction
01:30 Democratizing Animation
03:24 Fortnite Emote Revenue
05:49 State of Text-to-emote Prompts
09:00 Deep Learning for Motion
12:44 Motion Capture Technology
15:00 AI NPCs, Inworld
16:22 Constraints of GenAI Animation
20:32 Avatar Codecs
23:40 Exponential AI Improvements
27:15 Creator Economy
31:00 Interoperability
41:07 The Future of Generation Animation