Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – Animation Showcase The PlayStation Blog has a great writeup of a variety of aspects of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s...
Creative Feedback For Building Up Teams Lead animator at Firaxis, Hector Antunez, (@hector_animates) shares best practices for giving and receiving feedback, how to run...
Animating Total War: Warhammer In this BAFTA workshop, lead animator for Total War: Warhammer, Elliot Maren, provides an overview of the animation...
Just Cause 4 – Maximizing Animation and Cinematic Content Workflows In this 2019 GDC session, Avalanche Studios’ Brian Venisky (@TechAnimator) shows how the technical animation team executed on...
Sifu: Kung Fu Mocap Sloclap’s Sifu collaboration with Benjamin Colussi, Kung Fu master and founder of the Lao Wei San – Pak...
Sonic The Hedgehog – Intro Frames The iconic intro to Sonic The Hedgehog (1991) was hand-drawn on traditional animation paper before being turned into...
Character Locomotion In Half-Life: Alyx Valve’s Joe van den Heuvel (@ImplicitAction) describes the non-player character locomotion system developed for the VR game Half-Life:...
When Will The Attack Land? In video games, even a slight delay from button press to melee attack can ruin the responsiveness of...
5 Rules For Animating Colossi GenDesign CTO and animation director for Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, Masanobu Tanaka, gave a...
Animation In DOTA 2 From the 2021 Animation Exchange, Valve animators Dan Rosas Paulsen (@danRpaulsen) and Christine Phelan (christinephelan.com) show how animators...
The Animation of Spider-Man: MILES MORALES At the 2021 Animation Exchange my former colleague and Insomniac Games’ lead animator Mike Yosh (@Mike_Yosh), takes us...
Strike A Key Pose At the 2021 Games Gathering conference, former Square Enix Visual Works and now Capcom cinematics/facial animator Delphine Zombo...
Creating a Deeper Emotional Connection: The Cinematography of God of War In this 2019 GDC talk, Sony Santa Monica’s Dori Arazi (@DoriArazi) discusses the lessons and techniques learned during...
AnimState Survey Results 2021 game animation salary (and other data) survey results from this year’s Animation Exchange with BioWare’s Mike Jungbluth...