Chinese Language Tutor

By giantmonster February 28, 2019

A demo of a proposed Chinese/English language learning game that would use a teacher avatar to instruct language using animated shorts and Chinese written language. The character would prompt interpret the various characters and break down the written speech posted on the chalkboard. A short heritage film plays on a video screen, and our teacher avatar, Mr. Mole, would watch with the movie with the student.

002 - Giant Monster — Learning game for Chinese Language Learning.

003 - Giant Monster — Learning game for Chinese Language Learning.

005 - Giant Monster — *Content relative to the movie is shown on the chalk board*

006 - Giant Monster — *Content relative to the movie is shown on the chalk board*

012 - Giant Monster — The teacher avatar, Mr. Mole interactively discusses the movie with the player.

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Mark Chavez, is an award-winning animator, artist, educator, and entrepreneur, and an animation industry veteran. He is a member of the ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d’Animation / International Animated Film Association), a former Art Gallery Chair of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 conference in Hong Kong and Educators Program Chair SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. In 2008 he was granted major funding from the National Research Foundation / Media Development Authority of Singapore to establish research in the School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University. The capstone of that work, an innovative short film [Vengeance + Vengeance] screened at 21 international film festivals and competitions. He received 12 awards for the film and supporting research. Mark has developed systems and techniques for animation in many different media including laser light and computer graphics. His work at studios such as Tokyo Broadcasting System Vision, Acclaim Entertainment DreamWorks SKG and Rhythm and Hues Studios in Playa Vista. He has worked on numerous big budget, award-winning animated and live-action films. Animation industry veteran and founding faculty at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design and Media’s Digital Animation area he is currently based in Singapore and Los Angeles and is consulting on game-based Ed Tech start-up and creating interactive/reactive artworks for public art installations.

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