Facial Animation Archives

The Facial Animation Pipeline Of Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy

In this 2022 Animation Summit talk, Eidos Montreal’s Simon Habib (@SiMoNiZe23) presents the innovations that were implemented to...

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...

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...

Cyberpunk 2077 – Procedural Facial Animation

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

Final Fantasy VII Remake – Animation Tech

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

How Injustice 2 Leveled Up Its Facial Animations

CNET has a brief behind-the-scenes on the camera setup used to capture the impressive facial performances for NetherRealm’s...

Animating The Faces In Call Of Duty: WWII

Sledgehammer Games animation director Christopher Stone explains the motion and facial capture process of their upcoming Call of...

On Mass Effect Andromeda’s Dialogue Animation

I took to twitter yesterday to better explain dialogue animation in RPGs based on my own experience, frustrated by attacks on a...

The Last Of Us 2 Facial Motion Capture Technology

This excerpt from The Last of Us Part II – PSX 2016: Panel Discussion shows the latest facial...

Halo 5 Facial Animation Blend Shapes

Facial blend shapes from Halo 5 cinematic characters courtesy of Brad Shortt. [via Kotaku]...

Unveiling Uncharted 4

Last weekend in Las Vegas at Sony’s inaugural Playstation Experience event we unveiled gameplay of Uncharted 4 to a...

Another Step Up In CG Facial Animation

Work in progress, hand-made with Lightwave, Sculptris and Krita, composited with Davinci Resolve Lite....

Ryse: 3Lateral Face Rigs In Action

“About 70 scans were taken at Infinite Realities Ltd. which we tracked and used to produce context sensitive...

PS4, Xbox One And The Quest To Escape The Uncanny Valley

“If graphics aren’t combined with better animation, all these games are going to dive into the uncanny valley.”...

L.A. Noire Gag Reel

L.A. Noire (2011) outtakes/gag reel – possible only because of the advanced facial animation tech. An unedited version...

Facial Animation

The Facial Animation Pipeline Of Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy

Facial Rigging in Marvel’s Spider-Man

The Last of Us: Part II – In-Game Facial Animation

Cyberpunk 2077 – Procedural Facial Animation

Final Fantasy VII Remake – Animation Tech

How Injustice 2 Leveled Up Its Facial Animations

Animating The Faces In Call Of Duty: WWII

On Mass Effect Andromeda’s Dialogue Animation

The Last Of Us 2 Facial Motion Capture Technology

Halo 5 Facial Animation Blend Shapes

Unveiling Uncharted 4

Another Step Up In CG Facial Animation

Ryse: 3Lateral Face Rigs In Action

PS4, Xbox One And The Quest To Escape The Uncanny Valley

L.A. Noire Gag Reel

Apple Vision Pro Reveal

Potionomics – Animation Show And Tell

Hogwarts Legacy – MoCap & Animation Roundtable

Robust Motion In-Betweening

Local Motion Phases for Learning Multi-Contact Character Movements

The Eyes Have It: An Integrated Eye and Face Model for Photorealistic Facial Animation

Looks Next-Gen And Runs In A Browser

5 Rules For Animating Colossi

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