Professor An Jia of Kyungbok University Registers Copyright for Educational Assistant Character 'Baemi'

Professor An Jia of the Department of Visual Media Contents at Kyungbok University has completed copyright registration for her educational assistant character 'Baemi' in two versions, '3D Baemi' and 'Coding Baemi', with the Korea Copyright Commission.

The Baemi character is a growth-oriented educational character inspired by the life cycle of the cabbage white butterfly, which is covered in the third-grade elementary science textbook unit "The Life Cycle of Animals." The character is characterized by its personification of each stage of growth from egg, larva, pupa, to adult.

3D Baemi was created in 2016 using the Maya program, going through modeling and rigging processes to achieve a three-dimensional form. It is designed so that facial expressions and movements can be freely directed.

Professor An Jia of the Department of Video Media Content, School of Arts and Design at Kyungbok University, has completed copyright registration with the Korea Copyright Commission for the learning assistant character "Baemi," created in two versions: "3D Baemi" and "Coding Baemi."

Coding Baemi is a version created in 2021, featuring a narrative in which Baemi learns coding, set in a virtual world called Baemi Village. Various supporting characters appear, including Baemi's butterfly parents, a bee librarian, ladybug, dragonfly, and longhorn beetle. The robot version of Baemi covers learning topics such as artificial intelligence (AI) and text-to-speech (TTS) functions.

Professor An Jia said, "I feel a great sense of accomplishment that the Baemi character, which started as a drawing, has grown over ten years to become an educational content, has been combined with advanced technologies such as XR and coding education, and has now completed copyright registration."

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