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Animation Complexity In UFC 2 Through Procedural Techniques

November 19th, 2017

In this 2016 GDC session, EA Canada's Geoff Harrower (@GeoffHarrower) and Jeremy Mathiesen (@JeremyMathiesen) share a look at the EA UFC series' animation proce...

Presentations362 views

Realizing Responsive High Fidelity Character Movement in Just Cause 3

October 29th, 2017

In this 2015 GDC talk, Avalanche Studios' Jeet Shroff and Alex Crowhurst demonstrate the techniques used to maintain responsiveness and preserve animation quali...

Presentations476 views

Interview With Silent Hill CGI Director Takayoshi Sato

October 20th, 2017

The following is a transcript of a 2009 interview with Silent Hill 1 and 2 character & CGI director Takayoshi Sato, taken from an archive of the defunct sit...

Interviews1430 views

Siggraph 2017 – Real-time Cinematics & Storytelling

October 16th, 2017

Adam Myhill, head of cinematics at Unity Technologies, gives us insight into the revolution of real-time cinematics and storytelling using Unity's Cinemachine a...

Presentations283 views

The 2017 Game Animation Microtalks

October 11th, 2017

In this GDC 2017 animation bootcamp microtalk session, game animators Lana Bachynski, Shahbaaz Shah, Tim Borrelli, Gwen Frey, Matt Conn, Gabriela Aveiro, Matthe...

Presentations342 views

Combat Animation In Hellblade

October 3rd, 2017

Ninja Theory senior animator Chris Goodall (@cgmation) gave this fascinating talk at the Digital Art Conference Frankfurt about the combat animations in their r...

Presentations851 views

Final Games Interview

October 1st, 2017

Last month I was interviewed by Liam Edwards (@LiamBME)for the fantastic podcast series Final Games, the video game equivalent of Desert Island Discs. I hope yo...

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Animating Dauntless: Slaying AAA Animation On The Indie Scale

September 4th, 2017

In this GDC 2017 session, Phoenix Labs' Simon Unger (@Simonunger) explains the animation best practices they've learned so far to create AAA-grade animation on ...

Presentations573 views

Realistic Performances In Games

August 25th, 2017

In this 2017 GDC session, my colleague Ryan James (@RMJames) shares some of the methods used to create realistic performances for animated characters at Naughty...

Presentations500 views

Cuphead’s Animation Process And Philosophy

August 18th, 2017

In this 2017 GDC bootcamp, Studio MDHR's Jake Clark (@JakeClarkDude) explains his design and animation processes for the game Cuphead, and shares practical idea...

Presentations586 views

Nvidia & Remedy: Neural Networked Facial Animation

August 14th, 2017

Quantum Break developer Remedy is working with Nvidia to help create this new machine-learning approach to solving animation from video input to 3D output modif...

Academia421 views

The Witcher 3 Dialogue System

August 7th, 2017

In this 2016 GDC session, CD Projekt Red's Piotr Tomsinski explains the process for creating the dialogue animation system of The Witcher 3. You can read my ear...

Presentations568 views

Features

Interactive Cinematics In Uncharted 4

The Last Guardian: Procedural Animation

Animation Exchange 2017

Making Of

Animating The Aliens Of XCOM 2

How Blizzard Created Warcraft III’s Classic Cinematics

Detroit: Become Human – Mocap Behind-The-Scenes

Learn

Bungie’s Technical Designers In Animation

How Art Was Used To Create A Unique Cinematic Experience in Heavy Rain

Player Traversal Mechanics In Horizon Zero Dawn

Disciplines

Animating Weapons For Battlefield V

Cascadeur: Physics-Based Animation Software

Unreal Animation Blueprint Setup And Walkthrough

Misc.

The Game Anim Awards 2018

Overwatch Trace & Bake Stop Motion Promo

Sonic The Hedgehog: Animation Sketches