WEBTOON has announced a collaboration with Genies, a company specializing in AI-powered avatars. The alliance aims to integrate these tools into the platform, allowing creators and users to personalize their experience. Realistic avatars could be applied to comic characters or represent the readers themselves, opening up new possibilities for interaction within the digital ecosystem.
How the integration of smart avatars works 🤖
Genies offers AI technology to generate realistic and customizable avatars from basic user data. On WEBTOON, these avatars could be integrated as dynamic characters in narratives or as the reader's representation within the platform. Facial and motion synchronization allows adapting expressions and gestures, while AI adjusts details like clothing or environment. All of this is processed in real-time, without the need for constant manual intervention.
Now you can have an avatar that looks nothing like you 😅
Finally, readers will be able to create an avatar that looks like their best version, even if in real life they have dark circles and messy hair. Creators, for their part, can design characters that never move from their chair, just like them. In the end, AI will do the hard work while we pretend to be productive.