Designing AI-Assisted Animation for Malay Wedding Heritage Education: Visualising Minangkabau Wedding Ceremony in Negeri Sembilan for Children
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https://doi.org/10.24191/idealogy.v11i2.699Abstract
Minangkabau-influenced Malay wedding practices in Negeri Sembilan constitute a living cultural heritage in which ritual, family relations, clothing, objects, social interaction and community values are brought together in a single ceremonial context. Yet culturally specific wedding practices can be difficult for children to understand when heritage knowledge is communicated mainly through textual documentation, static images or adult-oriented explanations. This study develops a human-curated artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted animation framework for translating selected Minangkabau Malay wedding heritage in Negeri Sembilan into an accessible visual narrative for children. A design-based research-through-design approach is proposed, combining documentary and literature analysis, cultural content selection, visual translation, character and environment development, AI-assisted asset generation, animation prototyping and staged cultural and audience validation. The study contributes a nine-stage framework that moves from cultural authentication and interpretation to child-oriented translation, AI-assisted generation, human curation, cultural validation, animation and audience evaluation. The analysis emphasises that AI should function as a visualisation instrument rather than an autonomous producer of culture. It also establishes the design principle of “simplify the form, preserve the meaning”, whereby visual complexity may be reduced for young audiences without removing culturally meaningful ritual, costume, object or social information. The proposed framework extends current digital heritage and animation research by connecting Minangkabau wedding heritage, child-oriented visual communication and responsible generative AI within a single culturally controlled design workflow.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Heritage, Malay Wedding, Minangkabau, Visual Animation
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