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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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_RpwP...

Quill: VR Animation Creation

Facebook's Quill for the Oculus VR headset has added animation functionality which finally looks intuitive from within the virtual world itself, with the site s...

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. https://www.y...

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...