Patent ID: 8497869

Claim:
A character generating system that, by using a computer, generates a face of a character displayed on a display unit as a presence in a virtual space as an anime-like portrait based on face pickup image information of an object, wherein the computer includes: a pickup image acquiring unit that acquires the face pickup image information of the object from pickup image information of the object stored in a predetermined storing unit; a face part texture generating unit that extracts characteristic points from predetermined face parts and color information from predetermined pixels of the face pickup image information of the object acquired by the pickup image acquiring unit above, sets lookalike flesh color information for a head portion texture of the character similar to a flesh color of the photographed object on the basis of the extracted color information of the predetermined pixels, and also selects lookalike anime-like parts similar to the corresponding face parts of the object on the basis of the extracted characteristic points to generate a face part texture corresponding to the face part by setting an arrangement of the selected lookalike anime-like parts; a shape model generating unit that generates a head portion shape model on the basis of the characteristic points of the predetermined face parts; and a texture pasting unit that performs the step to replace color information of the head portion texture, exclusive of the face part texture to be pasted to the head portion shape model of the character, with the lookalike flesh color information set by the face part texture generating unit, as well as the step to paste the face part textures generated by the face part texture generating unit to the head portion shape model of the character.