Sifu: Kung Fu Mocap Sloclap’s Sifu collaboration with Benjamin Colussi, Kung Fu master and founder of the Lao Wei San – Pak...
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...
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...
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...
Facial Rigging in Marvel’s Spider-Man In this 2019 GDC talk, Insomniac Games’ Noah Alzayer (@NoahALzayer) goes over how Insomniac Games’ rigging team created...
Bayonetta – Mocap And Cinematics Bayonetta (2009) motion actor Maiko Uchida showed up late for rehearsals and hadn’t even listened to the assigned...
Demon’s Souls (2020) Mocap Footage Demon’s Souls (2020) remake mocap session montage, showing highlights from the one and a half years of mocap...
The Last of Us: Part II – In-Game Facial Animation My friend and fellow ex-Naughty Dog Keith Paciello (@keith_paciello) talks through the creation and implementation of the systemic...
Resident Evil 2 Cutscenes Capcom’s cutscene process for the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2 shows a DCC/Engine pipeline involving both MotionBuilder...
Resident Evil: Village – Mocap And Previz Resident Evil: Village shipped with several animation-related behind-the-scenes videos as bonus extras. They are shared below: Mocap Sessions...
Mass Effect – Mocap Shoot Footage I spend a lot of time looking online for video game animation history, so was pleasantly surprised to...
Procedural Generation Of Cinematic Dialogues In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey In this 2019 GDC talk, Ubisoft Quebec’s Francois Paradis presents his team’s approach to generating all aspects of...
Destruction AllStars – Animation Exchange Talks Both talks below for Lucid Games’ Destruction AllStars were part of the recent 2021 Animation Exchange. Senior animator...
