The 2019 GDC Animation Microtalks In this 2019 microtalk session, speakers Lana Bachynski (@Latienie), Yussef Cole (@youmeyou), Ryan Duffin (@AnimationMerc), Gwen Frey (@direGoldfish),...
Bringing Orphea To Heroes Of The Storm In this 2019 GDC session, Blizzard’s Lana Bachynski (@Latienie) covers the art and animation process from first concept...
Rico Flores: BioWare Animation Production 80 level has a great interview with my friend and former colleague, Rico Flores (@R1c00) regarding his work...
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....
Bungie’s Technical Designers In Animation In this 2015 GDC session, Bungie’s Jami Jeffcoat (@justjamij) explains what Technical Designers in Animation mean to Bungie,...
How Art Was Used To Create A Unique Cinematic Experience in Heavy Rain In this GDC 2011 talk, Quantic Dream’s Christophe Brusseaux dives into the cinematic art direction of the serial...
Player Traversal Mechanics In Horizon Zero Dawn In this 2017 GDC talk, Guerrilla Games’ Paul van Grinsven takes a technical deep-dive in the traversal animation...
Cuphead: Creating Djimmi The Great Studio MDHR’s Jake Clark takes us through his process of designing and animating the Genie boss character from...
Animating Expansion Packs For The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt In this 2017 GDC talk, CD Projekt Red’s Sebastian Kalemba (@Skalemba) talks about the most important upgrades in...
Physics Animation In Uncharted 4 My colleague Michal Mach (@gameplayAnim) shows off the physics overlaid on gameplay animation in Uncharted 4....
Game Animator: No Mom I’m Not A Graphic Designer Guest alumni Esther Ko (@esssko) of BioWare returns to the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy to discuss lessons learned after...
Creating 2D Characters In A 3D World “One-woman animation team” Tessa Monash (@tessamonash) walks through her workflow for The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti, showing how...
Nina Fricker: Insomniac Games Lead Technical Animator Rigging specialist training site Rigging Dojo have a great interview with Insomniac Games’ Nina Fricker (@NinaFricker) about her...
Motion Capture For The Core Gameplay Animator My colleague Maksym Zhuravlov (@MaksZhuravlov) presents a personal summary of best practices in utilizing Motion Capture for creation...
Video Game Animation Study: YouTube Channel Another excellent YouTube channel focusing on video game animation, this time from Dan Root (@Rootayable) The channel covers a...
