Disciplines Archives

Animating Weapons For Battlefield V

March 12th, 2019

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

Gameplay Animation255 views

Cascadeur: Physics-Based Animation Software

February 3rd, 2019

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...

Tools3157 views

Unreal Animation Blueprint Setup And Walkthrough

June 10th, 2018

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 ...

Tools1098 views

Facial Capture for iPhoneX

May 31st, 2018

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...

Tools1146 views

Epic’s Siren Real-Time Performance

March 28th, 2018

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 ...

Motion Capture299 views

God Of War In A Single Shot

March 26th, 2018

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...

Cutscene Animation448 views

Quill: VR Animation Creation

February 15th, 2018

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...

Tools301 views

Fortnite Trailer Pipeline

February 12th, 2018

Epic's Brian Pohl reviews the in-engine Fortnite cinematic trailer's creative workflow and technical pipeline from pre-production through post. https://www.y...

Cutscene Animation389 views

Xsens: MVN Animate

December 5th, 2017

Xsens have improved their inertial mocap suits to overcome issues with magnetic interference, as well as all but eliminate inaccuracies in the capture data due ...

Motion Capture330 views

How Injustice 2 Leveled Up Its Facial Animations

September 9th, 2017

CNET has a brief behind-the-scenes on the camera setup used to capture the impressive facial performances for NetherRealm's Injustice 2 fighting game. Read t...

Facial Animation580 views

Animating The Faces In Call Of Duty: WWII

May 5th, 2017

Sledgehammer Games animation director Christopher Stone explains the motion and facial capture process of their upcoming Call of Duty: WWII. Read the Venture...

Facial Animation837 views

On Mass Effect Andromeda’s Dialogue Animation

March 24th, 2017

I took to twitter yesterday to better explain dialogue animation in RPGs based on my own experience, frustrated by attacks on a sole animator who may or may not...

Facial Animation1201 views

Features

Interactive Cinematics In Uncharted 4

The Last Guardian: Procedural Animation

Animation Exchange 2017

Making Of

Animating The Aliens Of XCOM 2

How Blizzard Created Warcraft III’s Classic Cinematics

Detroit: Become Human – Mocap Behind-The-Scenes

Learn

Player Traversal Mechanics In Horizon Zero Dawn

Cuphead: Creating Djimmi The Great

Animating Expansion Packs For The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Disciplines

Animating Weapons For Battlefield V

Cascadeur: Physics-Based Animation Software

Unreal Animation Blueprint Setup And Walkthrough

Misc.

The Game Anim Awards 2018

Overwatch Trace & Bake Stop Motion Promo

Sonic The Hedgehog: Animation Sketches

Disciplines

Animating Weapons For Battlefield V

Cascadeur: Physics-Based Animation Software

Unreal Animation Blueprint Setup And Walkthrough

Facial Capture for iPhoneX

Epic’s Siren Real-Time Performance

God Of War In A Single Shot

Quill: VR Animation Creation

Fortnite Trailer Pipeline

Xsens: MVN Animate

How Injustice 2 Leveled Up Its Facial Animations

Animating The Faces In Call Of Duty: WWII

On Mass Effect Andromeda’s Dialogue Animation

Animating Weapons For Battlefield V

Player Traversal Mechanics In Horizon Zero Dawn

Cuphead: Creating Djimmi The Great