The meeting between the director and researcher Georges Gagner{\'e} and the digital artist and researcher C\'edric Plessiet at Paris 8 University through experiments crossing live performance and video game led to the development of tools from game techniques video and dedicated to theatrical experimentation on a mixed stage involving physical actors and avatars. The genesis of AvatarStaging setup and AKN_Regie tool is detailed through the various research-creations on which they were formalized and used. AKN_Regie is a plugin of the videogame engine Unreal Engine, programmed in blueprint, and dedicated to real time 3D previsualization and avatar direction.
@article{arxiv.2310.13717,
title = {Quand le jeu vid\'eo est le catalyseur d'exp\'erimentations th\'e\^atrales (2014-2019)},
author = {Georges Gagneré and Cédric Plessiet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13717},
year = {2023}
}