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Animating Thousands Of Fish In ABZU

In the first half of this talk Giant Squid's Matt Nava (@matt_nava) details how ABZU employed creative use of vertex animation and blend-shapes to animate thous...

Animation Bootcamp: Tricks of the Trade 2018

In this 2018 GDC micro-talk session, animators Gwen Frey (@diregoldfish), Joe Han, Almudena Soria (@soria_sancho), Jalil Sadool, Kyle Chittenden (@Ky_chi) &...

Building The Just Cause 3 Animation and Rigging Pipeline

In this 2016 GDC session, Avalanche Studios' Brian Venisky (@TechAnimator) presents the decisions and solutions made to solve key issues and serve the needs for...

Iconoclasts: Animation And Game Design Details

Gamasutra chats with 2D side-scroller Iconoclasts developer Joakim Sandberg over on the Gamasutra Twitch channel about the game's design and development, and in...

God Of War III: Animation Process

Sony Santa Monica animation director Bruno Velazquez (@brunovelazquez) talks about the animation process of God of War III in this audio-only clip from the GDC ...

The Many Faces And Performances Of Injustice 2

Dan Weiland (@dwheezy), senior cinematics animator at Netherrealm Studios, discusses the creation of the outstanding facial performances that were a key feature...

DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning Of Physics-Based Character Skills

DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills. This is really funny when used without the reference motion. "A longst...

The Every Day Life Of An Animator In The Mushroom Kingdom

Ubisoft Milan animation director Marco Renso (@ineluki6) and animation technical director Tommaso Sanguigni (@Tommixxx83) discuss the animation process for Mari...

NieR:Automata’s Animation Flag Tool

In the first half of this GDC 2018 talk, PlatinumGames' game designer Takahisa Taura (@PG_taura) discusses the in-game animation flagging tool utilised to give ...

Animation Exchange 2018

Same as last year, around GDC the Animation Exchange 2018 was a free afternoon of game animation panels and presentations streamed live from the Twitch studio i...

Animating Quill: Creating An Emotional Experience

Polyarc Animation Director Richard Lico (@Foofinu) demonstrates how VR breaks the 4th wall, elevating protagonist Quill beyond a simple player avatar. He detail...

Animation Prototyping For Games

In this 2014 GDC session, Epic Games' Jay Hosfelt (@HosFross) discusses tools and techniques for creating quick "gray box" animation assets for the designers th...