Add to ORKGDue to technological advances offered by the digital image, a new entity appeared which has become in the last decade, an element widely used in film narratives: the digital character. This category of character has as one of its main purposes the representation of special attributes or extra-sensory functions, incapable to be performed by conventional human actors. Through an analysis of classical narrative, the historical survey of digital imaging and exemplification of the construction of such characters, this work aims to analyze the relevance of these synthetic beings to the development of this type of narrative in cinema. The essence of the work lies in the investigation of narrative agents in order to verify the need for their digita...