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Gathering a large team around emotionally challenging game projects is difficult, as there is no fixed vocabulary to share a strong vision of the game design of emotional intelligence-based games. This research connects research from psychology and game design theory, to establish principles and lexicon around emotional skills and mechanics.

In the image analysis, the visual center is an area that has a high weighting factor for investigation. For instance, visual saliency is essential in image analysis. Furthermore, the visual center and visual guidance are necessary factors in composition when the 2D artist designs the concept art. Previous research is based on experiments or different saliency methods to identify visual interest rules. This research is inspired by bags of feature models and analyzes the frequency and color contrast in local regions to recognize the visual center. The authors intend to improve accuracy by using the bags of color model, and demonstrating the relationship between artists' pictorial skills and visual interest.

Direction is an important factor affecting the impression and quality of video contents. Therefore, the director must carefully decide the direction scheme. Especially unless the character’s emotions are directed effectively, viewers cannot empathize. Therefore, the director must carefully design the direction based on the theme and intention. Among them, lighting and composition are important factors directly affecting visual appearance. Therefore, careful design of lighting and composition is necessary. However, the direction depends on the experience and sense of the director. In other words, it is difficult to reuse the direction method and to preliminarily confirm the effect of the direction. Therefore, in this research, we focused on anger even in the character’s emotions. Furthermore, support to design of the composition and lighting for directing angry characters. In this research, we investigated and analyzed human anger. There are various causes and behaviors involved in anger. The impression to angry characters of viewer is varies depending on the causes of anger. Therefore, we classified each shots that angry character appears. This classification is based on the cause of anger. Furthermore, we analyzed lighting and composition of each shot. Based on these analysis results, we developed data library. In addition, we developed a template that can reproduce the lighting and composition of the analyzed shot with 3DCG. With this template, users can apply the lighting and composition of analyzed shots to arbitrary character models. It is possible to more effectively design the directing for angry character by using the proposed system.

In general, characters in the video content has a great influence on the works they play a role in. The creation method in the pre-production still depends on the experience and sensitivity of the creators. For that reason, there is a problem of the communication-gap, and it is always created with the same members to avoid frequent occurrence such as re-take. The current state of video content creation education is often done by educators with experience of production, and it is done with empirical rules and sensitivity of each educator. Therefore, there are a lot of relatively technical education, education to solve production problems is very difficult. The authors have developed various proposal methods for the DREAM method. A literal template is a template that can summarize necessary information at the planning stage and can describe character settings and stories. The collage system is a system that makes it easy to create visual materials even for the creators who cannot draw pictures well. The lighting scrapbook and the camera work scrapbook is a camera work and lighting simulation system for planning the optimum lighting in the directing scheme. In addition to these, the authors have developed a system for the emotional expression, the color scheme and the modeling of characters. These various proposal methods are aimed at solving the communication gap in creation. In this research we report examples of using them as an educational tool for character making.

Robot anime is one of the most popular genres in Japanese anime, and it is very popular in all around the world. In this study, we have focused on "battle scenes", a popular characteristic which is usually composed by large number of shots showing robots actions, power, speed and so on. The purpose of this study is to create a supporting system, which include camera blocking for when producing battle scenes. In this research, we have analyzed robots' common actions with the characteristic of camera blocking from existing robot anime, organized the screen structure that characterizes robot anime, and we were able to found out the trending of these works. After doing so, we were able to create a supporting system for camera blocking for when producing robot anime's battle scenes using the data found in this research. The support system also shows reference information for producing structure or shot design for battle scenes.

3DCG映像制作においてライティング（照明）は、作品の印象を決め、できを大きく左右する非常に重要な要素である。よってライティングは単純にライトを置くだけではなく、ディレクターの意図に基づいてしっかりと設計を行うことが重要である。そこで本研究では従来ディレクターの頭の中で感性的に行われていた照明設計を支援し、プレプロダクション段階において効率的にライティングシミュレーションを可能とするために、映像の演出を支援する「ライティングスクラップブック」とライティングを容易に行うための「ライトセット」を提案することを目的とする。これらを用いて映像制作の実証実験を行った結果、提案システムを用いることにより、作業時間が短縮でき、ライティングによる効率的な演出シミュレーションが可能になった。