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Xsens: MVN Animate

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 ...

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 Injustice 2 fighting game. Read t...

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 Duty: WWII. Read the Venture...

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...