to Didymus, start up company that develops digital humans, launched a new tool, based on generative Artificial Intelligence, which is capable of creating hundreds of video game characters in minutes. The announcement was made this Monday by the technology company, which indicates that it intends to speed up the production of games by allowing the creation of unique characters “very easily and very quickly”, reducing costs and saving “weeks” of work for development teams. .
Joao Orvalho, Head of Technology of Didimo, indicates that the advantage of the new tool, called Popul8, is not only that it allows “creating a thousand or 10 thousand characters in a few minutes”, something that, as a rule, implies “weeks and weeks of work”. ” — but also “memory optimization in games”. “We help create [de personagens] and we allow them to be in the game at the same time ”, he adds.
In statements to the Observer, João Orvalho affirms that through “a concrete case” it was possible to perceive that Popul8 allowed “reduce the budget that a game had for the creation of characters by 90%”. Asked if in that case it had been possible to develop more characters than initially planned, but for less money, he replied that it was “probable”. However, he highlighted another conclusion: “You can do the same number of characters, but faster.”
Didimo’s Popul8 launches this Monday
Currently, the tool is “oriented to game companies”, to the studios and teams that produce them, but the technology does not rule out the possibility of expanding this concept in the future so that the players themselves can create the character “and modify it” . in any way”, so that they feel represented”. For the observer, the start up Portuguese reveals that currently working directly with a company, having already made the “first installment” of Popul8. The game from that company in question, whose name Didimo refused to reveal, should be out “potentially by the end of the year.”
We are also working with a second company (…) and we already have the prospects of two or three more with which we are already in advanced conversations”, points out João Orvalho.
In a statement issued to mark the launch, Didimo explains that the new tool is based on its “robust technology for developing realistic 3D avatars, which game creators can now use to generate characters in minutes while maintaining full design control.” . “It is possible to add existing templates and, from there, the artists are able to adjust the characters and choose between different customization options”, emphasizes the technology company, highlighting that the “platform is easy to use, from creation to scale edition”.
Last October, the Portuguese startup announced the closing of a round of more than seven million dollars. Now, he assures that this amount helped develop Popul8 because “it helped build the team”, which has experience in the field of video games. Even so, João Orvalho points out that the tool, which was built in three months but that “has years and years of research behind it”, is still useful outside of this area.
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Source: Observadora
