RSS Amplifier

Podcast

The Character Technology Blog

A substack that focuses on the evolution of research and technology in the domain of 2D & 3D digital characters and Avatars.

chartech.substack.comSource feed ↗10 episodes

Live Last read · last published · next check

Latest episodes

Today in Character Technology - 10/23/25

ICCV Spotlight: Text to Hair, Physically Reactive and Interactive Motor Model for Avatar Learning. Then, new papers on improving motion synthesis and pose estimation.

Today in Character Technology - 10.22.25

Today was a light day in terms of papers released.

Today in Character Technology - 10/21/25

Compression for Streamable 3D Avatars, Head and Hand contacts, A new Large-scale dataset from Meta, Semantically meaningful Co-Speech Gestures, and more...

Today in Character Technology - 10/20/25

Mobile Gaussian Avatars

Today in Character Technology - 10/17/25

Meta's Zero-Shot Avatars from Unstructured Phone Images, Images to 3D Animations, Multi-Modal Motion Generation, and Consistent Identity in Image Gen.

Today in Character Technology 10/16/25

Generative HMC Captures from Meta, and Scene Aware Avatar animation

Today in Character Technology - 10/15/25

MPP4D Avatars, Multi-Character Audio-Driven Animation, and Hierarchical Vision Foundation Models for Human Mesh & Pose Estimation.

Today in Character Technology - 10/14/25

Implicit 3DMM for Localized Head Modeling, Infinite 3D Human Creation, Synchronous 2D & 3D Generative Models for Single View Human Construction, Audio/Pose Driven Half-Body Animation

Today in Character Technology 8.21.25

3d human gaussians from two images, an interesting medical research paper that may interest anyone who has experience fitting facial point clouds, and multi-skeleton contrastive learning.

Today in Character Technology - 6.9.25

Relightable Gaussian Avatars, Low-Latency 2D Talking Heads, and an automated pipeline for generating diverse and photorealistic 4D human animations