Disciplines Archives - Page 2 of 11

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 sole animator who may or may not...

UE4 Animation and Physics Technical Showcase

In this GDC 2017 session, members of the Unreal Engine 4 development team demonstrate several exciting upcoming animation and physics features for the engine. T...

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 production draw...

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 mocap technique we're using, (in concert with the talented technol...

Game Designers On Cutscenes

Varying opinions on the use of cutscenes as a storytelling method in games from game designers past and present. While I don't agree with all of them it is inte...

Marmoset Hexels 2.5

The Marmoset Hexels 2.5 update has a raft of animation features such as transformation tools, curve editing and post processing shaders. https://vimeo.com/18...

Bloxels: Pixel Art Game Creation For Kids

Keeping with the kid-friendly theme of the previous post, Bloxels is a game-creation platform with a tactile pixel-art interface. Definitely something to add to...

Butterfly: Inchworm Animation II

One for the kids; Butterfly: Inchworm Animation II released last week as the follow-up to the 2011 Nintendo 3DS animation software allowing children access to a...

Unreal Engine: Animation Features Update

Jeremy Ernst, Jurre de Baare, Lina Halper and Benn Galagher discuss the new animation features in the 4.13 build of Unreal Engine. They explore Alembic Vertex A...

Unity 5.5 Animation Window Updates

Currently still in Beta, these updates to key manipulation controls in the animation windows look to be taking the better elements of digital content creation p...

Allright Rig: Free Unreal Engine 4 Animation Rig

A beneficiary of Epic's Unreal Dev Grant, Allright Rig is a free "expandable nodes and macros library for automatic creation of character rigs and working with ...

Autodesk 2016 Games Reel

The Autodesk 2016 games reel, highlighting the very cutting edge of pre-rendered an ingame art and animation created with their creative suite, finishes with Un...