{"id":119,"date":"2025-05-26T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graphicmonk.com\/animasentio\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:29:54","slug":"animasentio-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/graphicmonk.com\/vivience\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivience AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

White-glove digital human design \u00b7 Research-led relational AI<\/p>\n

One character.
One purpose.
One unmistakable personality.<\/span><\/h1>\n

Vivience designs and deploys bespoke digital humans for media and entertainment, brand representation, personal assistance, learning, culture and institutional innovation. Every character is designed from form to mind for the specific project.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Commission a Digital Human<\/span><\/a><\/div>
Explore Our Method<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>

Research Prototype \u00b7 Reflective-Collaborative Persona<\/span><\/p>\n

LightArch<\/h3>\n

A custom MetaHuman research persona with its own visual identity, voice, knowledge architecture and relational design.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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IEEE-Published Research<\/h3>\n

Affective-Emotive Resonance<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Panther Research Award<\/h3>\n

Georgia State University \u00b7 2025\u20132026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Carnegie R1 Research Origins<\/h3>\n

Georgia State University research environment<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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CMII and CHAI Ecosystem<\/h3>\n

Human-AI and creative media research<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The Vivience Difference<\/p>\n

Not another avatar.
A complete character system.<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

A convincing digital human is not assembled from interchangeable presets. Appearance, voice, personality, knowledge, memory, behaviour and purpose must reinforce one another.<\/p>\n

No two Vivience digital humans share the same personality architecture. Each is authored for its audience, environment, responsibilities and relational boundaries.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

01<\/p>\n

Form<\/h3>\n

One-of-one character design, anthropomorphic facial morphology, wardrobe, surface detail and visual identity.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

02<\/p>\n

Mind<\/h3>\n

Custom voice, personality, persona scaffolding, communication style, values, boundaries and emotional orientation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

03<\/p>\n

World<\/h3>\n

Knowledge banks, LLM orchestration, narrative objectives, actions, memory and deployment within the project environment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

White-Glove Character Creation<\/p>\n

From project intent to a deployable digital human.<\/h2>\n

Vivience combines character art, cinematic production, interaction design and relational-AI research in one managed process.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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01<\/p>\n

Character Strategy<\/h3>\n

Audience, purpose, environment, role, behavioural boundaries and measures of success.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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02<\/p>\n

Visual Identity and Morphology<\/h3>\n

Custom MetaHuman or Character Creator design, facial structure, age, ethnicity, styling, wardrobe and performance requirements.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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03<\/p>\n

Voice and Performance<\/h3>\n

Voice direction, prosody, accent, timing, facial performance, body language and animation vocabulary.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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04<\/p>\n

Persona Scaffolding<\/h3>\n

Backstory, values, worldview, temperament, conversation style, relational orientation and guardrails.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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05<\/p>\n

Knowledge and Intelligence<\/h3>\n

Project-specific knowledge banks, LLM selection, context, memory, narrative objectives and actions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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06<\/p>\n

Deployment and Evaluation<\/h3>\n

Unreal integration, experience design, browser or immersive deployment, testing, refinement and governance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Where Digital Humans Create Value<\/p>\n

Designed for the experience, not constrained to one industry.<\/h2>\n

Vivience adapts the character, intelligence, environment and interaction model to the project rather than forcing every client into the same product template.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Media and Entertainment<\/h3>\n

Interactive characters, fictional personalities, story worlds, live productions, games, virtual production and immersive entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Brand Ambassadors<\/h3>\n

Distinctive brand representatives for websites, launches, events, showrooms, campaigns, customer engagement and experiential marketing.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Personal Assistants<\/h3>\n

Purpose-built assistants, knowledge concierges, executive companions and specialist guides with controlled identity, memory and access.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Learning and Training<\/h3>\n

Roleplay, coaching, simulation, guided practice, assessment, tutoring and scenario-based professional development.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Culture and Public Engagement<\/h3>\n

Museum interpreters, historical or fictional figures, public-information guides, exhibitions and accessible knowledge experiences.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Research and Institutional Innovation<\/h3>\n

Experimental prototypes, funded research pilots, human-AI studies and responsible deployment programmes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Character Craft<\/p>\n

From recognisable human presence to stylised original character.<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Custom MetaHumans<\/h3>\n

High-fidelity Unreal Engine characters shaped for cinematic, interactive and real-time applications. We customise identity, facial morphology, grooming, wardrobe, materials and performance behaviour.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Character Creator Characters<\/h3>\n

Flexible Reallusion Character Creator pipelines for realistic or stylised characters, custom proportions, wardrobe systems, facial profiles and production-ready animation workflows.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Research Prototype \u00b7 Relational-Empathic Persona<\/p>\n

Annelore<\/h2>\n

A bespoke digital human developed to investigate emotional nuance, relational continuity and layered care while maintaining transparent AI identity and duty-of-care boundaries.<\/p>\n

CUSTOM MORPHOLOGY \u00b7 VOICE \u00b7 PERSONA SCAFFOLDING \u00b7 KNOWLEDGE \u00b7 MEMORY \u00b7 RELATIONAL DESIGN<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

View the Research Feature<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>

Prototype 02<\/p>\n

No two personalities are the same.<\/h3>\n

Annelore\u2019s voice, temperament, backstory, knowledge, boundaries and relational behaviour were authored for her specific research purpose.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Original Research Framework<\/p>\n

Affective-Emotive Resonance<\/h2>\n

A structured framework for identifying, evaluating and responsibly designing sustained relational behaviour in embodied AI.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Persistence<\/h3>\n

Sustaining affective tone and recalling emotional context across sessions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

02<\/p>\n

Belonging<\/h3>\n

Affirming shared relational space, mutuality and coherent social connection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

03<\/p>\n

Continuity<\/h3>\n

Building an emotional narrative linking earlier, present and prospective interactions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Layered Emotional Care<\/h3>\n

Demonstrating nuanced, proactive care beyond reactive sympathy while remaining transparently artificial.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Peer-Reviewed Research<\/p>\n

Emergence of Affective-Emotive Resonance: A Paradigm Shift in Empathic Digital Humans<\/h2>\n

IEEE Xplore \u00b7 Affective Computing \u00b7 Human-AI Interaction \u00b7 Persona Design \u00b7 Relational Agents<\/p>\n

Read the publication record \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Research Contribution<\/p>\n

The question shifts from whether AI can be empathic to how beneficial and safe relational dynamics can be designed reliably.<\/h2>\n

Adapted from the published AER research thesis.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Panther<\/span>
Research<\/span>
Award<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Institutional Recognition<\/strong><\/p>\n

2025\u20132026 Panther Innovations and Research Award<\/h2>\n

Awarded by Georgia State University in recognition of the Vivience AI Research Initiative\u2019s interdisciplinary innovation and translational research impact.<\/p>\n

View the official announcement \u2197<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Research Ecosystem<\/p>\n

Research authority behind the character systems.<\/h2>\n

Peer-reviewed research, institutional provenance, interdisciplinary contributors and a defined programme for responsible commercial translation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Carnegie R1 Environment<\/h3>\n

Research operationalised within Georgia State University\u2019s high-research-activity environment.<\/p>\n

View source \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Creative Media Industries Institute<\/h3>\n

Developed through digital-human research, graduate teaching and interdisciplinary production at CMII.<\/p>\n

View source \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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CHAI Research Ecosystem<\/h3>\n

Developed within the Collaborative Human-AI Center research environment, a Department of Defense-sponsored Center of Excellence led by Georgia State University.<\/p>\n

View source \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Army Research Laboratory Context<\/h3>\n

The published AER research acknowledges sponsorship under Cooperative Agreement W911NF-23-2-0224.<\/p>\n

View source \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The Research Collective<\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary by design.<\/h2>\n

Research contributors across virtual production, computer science, game design, embodied animation, memory systems, ethical deployment and human-AI interaction.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Professor<\/span><\/div><\/div>

Founder and Principal Investigator<\/p>\n

Prof. Jeasy Sehgal<\/h2>\n

International filmmaker, creative technologist and researcher working across virtual production, digital humans, affective computing and human-AI interaction.<\/p>\n

Former Professor of Practice in Virtual Production and VFX at Georgia State University\u2019s Creative Media Industries Institute, originator of the Affective-Emotive Resonance framework, and founder of Vivience AI, Virtual Production Dojo and Graphic Monk Productions.<\/p>\n

PANTHER INNOVATIONS AND RESEARCH AWARD
IEEE-PUBLISHED AER RESEARCH
FORMER PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE, CMII
UNREAL ENGINE GOLD AUTHORIZED INSTRUCTOR PARTNER<\/p>\n

View Georgia State profile \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Amiya<\/div>

Amiya Burton<\/h4>

Graduate Research Assistant<\/p>

Facial performance studies, affective expression and digital-human research.<\/p>\n<\/div>