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Death Stranding Cutscene Live Action Previz

A compilation of videos Hideo Kojima shared to illustrate the live action previz undertaken for Death Stranding. This looks to have proven useful, given many o...

A Practical Approach To Developing Forward-Facing Rigs, Tools And Pipelines

In this 2018 GDC session, Creative Assembly's Michael Malinowski presents the company's approach to building and utilizing a version-centric plugin architectur...

Bringing Life To The Machines Of Horizon Zero Dawn

In this 2018 GDC session, Guerrilla Games' Richard Oud (@richard_oud) discusses what it took for the team to create the mechanical beasts of Horizon Zero Dawn ...

Capcom’s RE Engine Animation Features

In October Capcom held their inaugural Open Conference in Tokyo and Osaka where they demonstrated the latest tech from their proprietary RE Engine, used to mak...

New Animation Features In Unreal Engine

In this talk from GDC 2019, Epic’s James Golding & Laurent Delayen provide a roundup of all the latest animation features built for Unreal Engine over the p...

Animating Weapons For Battlefield V

DICE animator Oskar Wetterbrandt takes us through the animation and technical implementation of a weapon for the Battlefield series. Read the full article o...

Cascadeur: Physics-Based Animation Software

Nekki's Cascadeur has previously impressed for their internal creation of parkour running game Vector, and this new version of the software is not only light-ye...

Unreal Animation Blueprint Setup And Walkthrough

Epic Games released 20 character assets from Paragon and this tutorial shows how to get started with those assets. While only Shinbi's animation Blueprints are ...

Facial Capture for iPhoneX

App developer Bannaflak have released a free app for facial capture on iPhoneX (with a $9.99 unlock charge for captures longer than 3 minutes). Download from th...

Epic’s Siren Real-Time Performance

At GDC 2018 Epic displayed some eerily realistic performance capture, captured and displayed in real-time. This is a great glimpse at how game characters could ...

God Of War In A Single Shot

God of War director of cinematography, Dori Arazi, discusses the challenge of creating cinematics with no camera cuts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_RpwP...

Quill: VR Animation Creation

Facebook's Quill for the Oculus VR headset has added animation functionality which finally looks intuitive from within the virtual world itself, with the site s...