The role of emotion in believable agents

Joseph Bates here is a notioti in the Arts of "believable character." It does not mean an honest or reliable character, btit otie that provides the illtision of life, thtis permitting the atidience's stispension of disbelief The idea of believability has long been studied and explored in literatttre, theater, film, radio drama, and other media. Traditional character animators are among those artists who have sought to create believable characters, and the Disney animators of the 1930s made great strides toward this goal. The first page of the enormous classic reference work on Disney animaticjn [12] begins with these words: