The Cinematics Of Horizon Forbidden West In this GDC 2023 session, Guerrilla cinematics director Ismael Auray (@ismo) shares an exclusive breakdown of key scenes,...
The Animated World Of Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart In this 2022 GDC Animation Summit session, Insomniac Games’ Lindsay Thompson (@Binzimation) discusses the process and inspiration for...
The Cinematic Process Behind God Of War In this 2019 GDC talk, lead narrative animator Erica Pinto (@psyham) discusses the specific and somewhat unconventional techniques...
The Cinematic Process Of Marvel’s Spider-Man In this 2019 GDC talk, Insomniac Games’ lead animator Brian Wyser (@brianwyser) provides a thorough walk-through of the...
Animating Total War: Warhammer In this BAFTA workshop, lead animator for Total War: Warhammer, Elliot Maren, provides an overview of the animation...
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...
Bayonetta – Mocap And Cinematics Bayonetta (2009) motion actor Maiko Uchida showed up late for rehearsals and hadn’t even listened to the assigned...
Resident Evil 2 Cutscenes Capcom’s cutscene process for the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2 shows a DCC/Engine pipeline involving both MotionBuilder...
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...
Super Mario Odyssey: Cutscene Storyboards The official art book The Art of Super Mario Odyssey primarily contains concept art but also has a...
Death Stranding Cutscene Live Action Previz A compilation of videos Hideo Kojima shared to illustrate the live action previz undertaken for Death Stranding. This...
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....
Fortnite Trailer Pipeline Epic’s Brian Pohl reviews the in-engine Fortnite cinematic trailer’s creative workflow and technical pipeline from pre-production through post....
The Last Guardian: Cutscene Storyboards (The storyboards below contain spoilers for the game’s closing story cinematics.) Following on from last month’s collection of Ico’ animation...