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Deconstructing The Animation Of Ori And The Blind Forest

At GDC 2015, Campo Santo developer and animator of Moon Studios' Ori & The Blind Forest, James Benson, gave a thirty-minute talk outlining his (ultimately s...

Hybrid Skeletal-Surface Motion Graphs For Character Animation

"We present a novel hybrid representation for character animation from 4D Performance Capture (4DPC) data which combines skeletal control with surface motion gr...

Guilty Gear Xrd’s Art Style : The X Factor Between 2D and 3D

"While the quality of photo-realistic real-time graphics in games is advancing daily to near feature-film quality, Arc System Works' RED team took a completely ...

12 Principles Of Animation Demonstrated With Darkstalkers

"The following is a primer on the 12 principles of animation, as they are applied in Darkstalkers and its various sequels." ...

Blending Cinematics and Gameplay Animation in The Order 1886

Ready At Dawn Studios developed next-gen engine technology which allowed us to seamlessly blend gameplay and cinematics in The Order: 1886. https://www.youtu...

GDC 2015 – Women Are Not Too Hard To Animate

Our GDC 2015 panel Women Are Not Too Hard To Animate is now available to view for free on the GDC Vault here. Stick around after the quiet intro - my mic is tur...

Shape Capture From Sparse Markers

"MoSh estimates body shape and pose together using sparse marker data by exploiting a parametric model of the human body." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui...

Far Cry 4: Animating An Open World

Interview with Far Cry 4 Animation Director Scott Mitchell at GDC 2015 discusses the world of Far Cry and how the role of an animator has changed over the years...

Destiny’s Runtime Animation Rig

Destiny animation team shares their tech (runtime rig, anim layers, action system and more)....

The Anime Industry’s Problem Is That It’s Full Of Anime Fans

Mirroring the echo chamber of games referencing games - Miyazaki on getting out and referencing real life....

Animating Elizabeth In Bioshock Infinite

With a focus on animation, animation director Shawn Robertson talks about the various systemic and narrative techniques that we used on Elizabeth, and give prac...