Features Archives - Game Anim

Calling Bullshots: Tips For Spotting A Fake Gameplay Trailer

We sometimes know something’s off, but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly why a supposed gameplay trailer doesn’t look...

The Target Game Footage

Below is a brief excerpt from my book, GAME ANIM: Video Game Animation Explained, on closing out the...

The 12 Principles Of Animation (In Video Games)

Below is an excerpt from the book GAME ANIM: Video Game Animation Explained, reproduced this week on Gamasutra....

Interactive Cinematics In Uncharted 4

This is an ‘HD Remaster’ of a talk I gave at the Twitch Animation Exchange in February 2017....

The Last Guardian: Procedural Animation

Below is a write-up of GenDesign animation director Masanobu Tanaka’s CEDEC (Computer Entertainment Developer’s Conference) 2017 presentation on the...

Animation Exchange 2017

For those unable to attend GDC’s animation bootcamp, on Tuesday that week there was a whole day of game...

1000 Demo Reels

The Game Anim Demo Reels vimeo group now contains over 1000 demo reels with almost as many members,...

The Emotional Character Control Of Shadow Of The Colossus

In this GDC 2006 session, a panel from the development team who created 2001’s Ico deliver a postmortem...

Ico: Animation Production Drawings

It’s only a few weeks until the release of oft-delayed The Last Guardian, the third in a series which...

Siggraph 2016: Top 5 Game Anim Picks

In advance of next month’s 43rd Siggraph Conference on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques here are my ‘ones-to-watch’ from the 2016 submissions that...