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The Last Guardian: Procedural Animation

Below is a write-up of GenDesign animation director Masanobu Tanaka's CEDEC (Computer Entertainment Developer's Conference) 2017 presentation on the procedural ...

Unsynced: The Last of Us Melee System

In this 2014 GDC session, my colleague Anthony Newman (@BadData_) shares an overview of the design and implementation of the melee system for The Last of Us. Wh...

Animation Complexity In UFC 2 Through Procedural Techniques

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...

Realizing Responsive High Fidelity Character Movement in Just Cause 3

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

Interview With Silent Hill CGI Director Takayoshi Sato

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...

Siggraph 2017 – Real-time Cinematics & Storytelling

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...

The 2017 Game Animation Microtalks

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

Combat Animation In Hellblade

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

Final Games Interview

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...

Animating Dauntless: Slaying AAA Animation On The Indie Scale

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 ...

Realistic Performances In Games

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...

Cuphead’s Animation Process And Philosophy

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...