Synthetic Media and Children's Entertainment

Synthetic Media Community Group,

Hello. I was recently thinking about applications of synthetic media and considered education and children’s entertainment. I considered that child actors are few and far between and that, e.g., with age regression technologies, skilled older actors could be motion captured and digitized so as to be portrayed as child characters or that child characters could be entirety digitally synthesized for educational content.

Does anybody know of any research into younger audiences and their engagement and interest with respect to cartoons and puppets versus dramatic live-action stories with ensembles of child characters? Might younger audiences be interested in stories which can be made easier to produce with emerging technologies?

Does anybody know of any research or publications discussing age regression and other synthetic media technologies for education and children’s entertainment?


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski