The Forest - A Story in ASL in HD

NOW AVAILABLE IN HIGH QUALITY

Vcom3D and the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center of Gallaudet University located in Washington D.C. are researching and developing a proof-of-concept system for creating and delivering animated stories using the full range of facial expressions and body language of American Sign Language, as well as manual signs to aid the reading comprehension of Deaf and Hard of Hearing students.

The proof-of-concept, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), includes a video of the story, titled "The Forest", which was signed in American Sign Language by Jason Stewart, a teacher at the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (KDES).

Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• deaf
• asl
• sign
• language
• story
• storytelling
• avatar
• animation
• signing
• 3D
• characters
• high
• quality
• Vcom3D

[reeseyummie7]

Cool! :) I never see ASL with 3-D before. Signing looks so smoothe :)

[Bearpax1020]

good prosody !!

[MrJorgeven]

entiendo perfectamente ASL con 3-D

[connierc1]

KEWL! First time seen this way animated. Impressive. Feel sorry for the bird, tho :-) - he was happy sitting in his big, beautiful tree in the forest..... CONGRATS to all who worked on this!

[TheMusicFresh]

what software you use?

[Banerika]

WOW! Virtual ASL!

[triplesdrama]

Awesome! Great Job!

[DeafLori]

wow this must have taken a long time to do. You managed to capture the non-manual grammar etc wow! I have to let people know about this, so cool! and thanks for captions so my hearing family can keep up with it.