Disciplines Archives

Middle-earth: Shadow of War – Creating Multi-Character Combat Animations

In this 2018 GDC session, Monolith Productions’ lead animator Camille Chu and senior animator John Piel discuss the...

In this 2017 GDC talk, Eidos-Montreal’s Nicholas Frechette (@nfrechette6) explains how animation compression systems can evolve to match...

In this 2020 GDC Summer session, Respawn Entertainment’s Bartlomiej Waszak (@bartwaszak) explains how Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order...

CD Projekt have been longtime pioneers of marrying procedurally-generated animation with hand-authoring workflows, (see their work on The...

At CEDEC 2020 this September, Square Enix lead animation programmer Ryuto Kazuhara and facial animation director Akira Iwasawa...

Stunning hand-drawn previz for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (2010). Drawn by Mercury Steam art director Jorge Benedito as...

The official art book The Art of Super Mario Odyssey primarily contains concept art but also has a...

In this 2020 GDC Virtual Talk, Unity’s Dave Hunt shares how Unity has implemented Freeform Animation in the...

Valve have released the Half-Life: Alyx Workshop, including their animation toolset, AnimGraph, for creators to begin creating content...

Bandai Namco have generously released their BNS Rig for Maya for free. Based on the one used throughout...

A compilation of videos Hideo Kojima shared to illustrate the live action previz undertaken for Death Stranding. This...

Caleb Longmire (@clongmire42) has given his Advanced Locomotion System away for free after it has reached a satisfactory...

In this 2018 GDC session, Creative Assembly’s Michael Malinowski presents the company’s approach to building and utilizing a...

In this 2018 GDC session, Guerrilla Games’ Richard Oud (@richard_oud) discusses what it took for the team to...

In October Capcom held their inaugural Open Conference in Tokyo and Osaka where they demonstrated the latest tech...