2015 P2P: VID: The WIP show special, Fred Buckhusen tells about and demos his NPC controller

The WIP show special, Fred Buckhusen 
tells about and demos his NPC controller 

NPC's are Non-Playing Characters. They can look exactly like any avatar you can wear. You can animate them and, with the aid of the NPC controller, put them through a sequence of actions to execute a scene for a video capture or to greet an assist a visitor in a computer-presented story

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Articles about NPCs

• Pandora, an NPC learning lab. An NPC is a body double for an avatar
• The Hypergrid WIP Show: How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
• Private dancer. Non-player Character (NPC) No avateers were used in this video.
• How to make dancing cows and other tales of the NPCs
• NPCs (Non-Player Characters): for video and stage productions. AMP notes
• Dancing NPCs (Non Player Characters). And a Hypergrid warning
• Fun With NPC's Tutorial 1

Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
• WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
• The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid

News and Notes

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• Next WIP show: Sun. Nov. 22, 12 pm SLT, on Cookie II,  Kitely  

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Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
• WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
• The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid

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• Maria's OS grid survey, 2015
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