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 Animation473 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...

Tools3920 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 ...

Tools1178 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...

Tools1188 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 Capture307 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 Animation473 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...

Tools307 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 Animation399 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 Capture337 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 Animation600 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 Animation849 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 Animation1207 views