SceneMaker: Automatic Visualisation of Screenplays

Abstract. Our proposed software system, SceneMaker, aims to facilitate the production of plays, films or animations by automatically interpreting natural language film scripts and generating multimodal, animated scenes from them. During the generation of the story content, SceneMaker will give particular attention to emotional aspects and their reflection in fluency and manner of actions, body posture, facial expressions, speech, scene composition, timing, lighting, music and camera work. Related literature and software on Natural Language Processing, in particular textual affect sensing, affective embodied agents, visualisation of 3D scenes and digital cinematography are reviewed. In relation to other work, SceneMaker will present a genre-specific text-to-animation methodology which combines all relevant expressive modalities. In conclusion, SceneMaker will enhance the communication of creative ideas providing quick pre-visualisations of scenes. Key words: Natural Language Proc...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: KI
• Authors: Eva Hanser, Paul McKevitt, Tom Lunney, Joan Condell
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, KI 2009, Natural Language, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language film