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Mocap Automation Techniques At Ubisoft Montreal

Dan Lowe's (@danlowlows) GDC 2016 on automating motion editing, based on work at Ubisoft Montreal on Far Cry: Primal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWBlMJH...

An Indie Approach To Procedural Animation

In this 2014 GDC session, indie developer David Rosen (@Wolfire) explains how to use simple procedural techniques to achieve interactive and fluid animations us...

Interview With Playdead’s Andreas Normand Grøntved

Autodesk's GameDev podcast chats with Lead Animator of INSIDE, Andreas Normand Grøntved (@andreasng____). Andreas explains how his experience in animation for f...

The Animation Pipeline Of Overwatch

In this 2017 GDC talk, Blizzard's Jesse Davis (@jdavisAnimation)takes a look at how the Overwatch team built an animation pipeline and workflow around a new gam...

Animbreak Interviews

Jason Shum (@shumface) of Amazon Game Studios has been building a great series of game animator video interviews, with the latest being Shawn Wilson (@jitterbot...

Animation Direction Of Saints Row IV’s Super Jumping

In this 2014 GDC talk, Volition's Zach Lowery (@ZLow4sho) explains how the Saints Row IV animation team took a different approach to gathering reference materia...

Podcast: A Keyframe Of Mind

A Keyframe of Mind is a great podcast on animation and the game industry by game animators Jenny (@baronjennyson), Ju Li (@Juleshortstuff), Katie (@somethingbet...

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Animation Efficiency In Battlefield

EA DICE LA's Ryan Duffin's (@AnimationMerc) Konsoll 2017 talk describes working smartly and efficiently to maximise output in the creation of weapon animations ...

AI And Full Body Animation In DOOM

In this GDC 2017 talk, id Software's Jake Campbell explains some of the techniques that were used to make the unique animations of DOOM in a modern game environ...

Horizon Zero Dawn: Animator Interviews

Animation Mentor has posted interviews with several of their alumni from Guerrilla Games. Check out the Peer Lemmers (@plem07)and Richard Oud (@richard_oud) ...

Making The [Spoiler] Of INSIDE

In this 2017 GDC talk, Playdead lead animator Andreas Normand Grontved (@andreasng____) and other team members layer physics, animation and shaders to make INSI...

DeepLoco: Dynamic Locomotion Skills Using Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning

This paper from The University of British Columbia students Xue Bin Peng, Glen Berseth, Kangkang Yin & Michiel van de Panne shows a character learning locom...