3D Cartoons, CG Animation, Virual Actors, Characters and Performers. Illustration, Design and Stop Motion animation.

Among other things images and animations featuring Stephen Stahlberg's virtual actresses. Be sure to look at the "what's new" section

Featuring a virtual newscaster, capable of delivering real-time on-demand news bulletins over the Internet and interactive devices.

Technology that enables spoken natural language dialog with virtual humans for training applications.

A company who is developing interactive digital beings with an emotional intelligence called "heart" for Handy, TV and Internet. It shows various character examples, TV and movieprojects.

Cambridge MA. Boston Dynamics is a leading provider of human simulation software and services. Its product, DI-Guy, is widely used for adding lifelike humans to real-time simulations. PeopleShop, allows the rapid creation of scenarios with realistic people, and vehicles.

Offer virtual characters to support online customers by using natural language processing with speech capability.

He is currently starting up a new group called "Synthetic Characters" which will focus on the problem of building interactive animated characters.

C & C Creations. Virtual Characters, Chatterbots and Talking Agents for your website.

University of Pennsylvania. The Center for Human Modeling and Simulation exists to investigate computer graphics modeling and animation techniques for embodied agents, virtual humans, and their applications.

References to autonomous characters that can improvise and react to their environment.

CHARISMATIC is researching and designing artificial virtual humans which can take their place in virtual environments and become an interactive part of the attraction and enjoyment of using the systems.

Personality capture and automated animation. A new media site that specializes in real time 3d characters: the content is designed in the style of pin-up with the intent to bring high technology and art together with comedy.

A site about worlds 3d chat where you can find avatars, textures, costum worlds, friends from worlds, links.

The Oz Project at CMU is developing technology and art to help artists create high quality interactive drama, based in part on AI technologies. This especially means building believable agents in dramatically interesting micro-worlds.

CodeBaby is a leader in web-based virtual agent technology, and enables corporations to integrate state-of-the-art, interactive 3D characters with their websites and online services.

LIG is mainly involved in computer animation and virtual reality and teaches computer graphics, virtual reality, and computer vision at the diploma and the doctoral level.

Conversive's interactive knowledge management solutions complement existing applications and give them new functionality. Our proprietary Conversive Application Platform acts as a natural language interface layer for web pages, intranets and other digital information applications and provides users with coherent, flexible access to vital information. Knowledge is seamlessly accessible from any platform. Real answers are only a simple question away. Start the Dialog(sm) with your users now.

Capturing realistic models of individual people to populate virtual worlds.

An evolving community for people interested in all types of applications and technologies dealing with digital humans.

A massive collection of virtual femmes and digital actresses. In japanese.

The simulation of realistic virtual humans, who can interact within a 3-D environment and with the user, will improve the ability to create convincing human animation in the entertainment industry.

A Real-Time and Parallel System for the Simulation of Virtual Humans.

Animation Lab at Georgia Tech. We are interested in the simulation and animation of dynamic motion such as running, diving, and bicycling.

Home of Virtual Friends - synthetic talking heads that are able to morph into different shapes, talk via scripts, or act as virtual chat proxies.

Interactive fantasy and science fiction characters, featuring anime-styled women, aliens, fairies, and monsters.

The goal of the Synthetic Characters Group at the MIT Media Laboratory is to understand how to build interactive characters that come alive in the eyes of the people who interact with them.

noDNA provides virtual characters, event services with virtual characters, virtual characters for internet applications like knowledge based bots, technology like motion capture devices for body, fingers and face.

The MRL's Responsive Animated Character research involves applying Prof. Ken Perlin's noise techniques from image rendering to character movement.

Describes research on using automatic face recognition techniques to create personalized cyberspace avatars.

MOTEK. Designs and produces a wide variety of 3D characters for use in VR of any format.

Advancing the complexity, robustness, and realism of responsive virtual humans for interaction skills training. NSF-funded RTI-led consortium developing spoken dialog interactions with affective virtual people.

textPuppet (together with Poser)creates speaking animated characters - it contains a high quality text-to-speech synthesizer and an automatic animation script generator. It takes text as input and automatically produces scripts and audio files for rendering lip-synch animations in Poser.

The mission of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University is to understand the dynamics and implications of interactions among people in immersive virtual reality simulations (VR).

A collection of links to academic and commercial sites of developers and users of virtual humans.

Papers by Curry Guinn (RTI, Duke University) on virtual humans, conversational agents, synthetic characters, virtual personalities, computational models of human behavior, facial gesture, body gesture, and lip synching.

Virtual Idol is a monthly magazine focusing on pretty female characters from games and female seiyuu. The first 8 issues of Virtual Idol came out in an irregular schedule, but it became monthly with volume 9.

Describes the process of creating and controlling virtual humans in a virtual world.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The laboratory is mainly involved in the modelling and animation of Three-Dimensional Inhabited Virtual Worlds.

Virtual talking characters for your web page. Good way to give your site a personality and interactive presence on the web. Characters are capable of speaking up to six languages.

virtual characters by interiorsphere

Collection of 3DCG women including Yuki Terai, Kyoko Date, Lara Croft, and Kasumi and Ayane from Dead or Alive.