Big Stage Unveils Avatar Creation Tool
Tweet12/19/07 – Pasadena-based Big Stage, which offers a 3D avatar creation technology, has made its official debut. The company says its proprietary technology allows users to create and integrate a 3D avatar of themselves into media like famous movie scenes, TV shows, video games, music videos, virtual worlds and still images. The service will be available to the public in the second quarter of 2008.
Big Stage says the service requires that users upload three pictures of themselves with a digital camera, and the Big Stage tool quickly converts them into a life-like 3D avatar. The proprietary technology automatically maps the contours of a user’s face to generate a replica of the user, fully equipped for animation, according to the company.
After users create and style their avatars, they can drop them into the library of Big Stage-enabled user and professionally created content. This highly personalized content can then be shared by users across social networks, mobile phones and other platforms, according to Big Stage.
The company’s technology is the result of a nine-year research project at the University of Southern California. Big Stage says that using the USC research as a starting point, and through a series of technical breakthroughs, CTO Jon Snoddy and chief scientist Doug Fidaleo brought the product to fruition.
Big Stage – www.bigstage.com
