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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...

Nvidia & Remedy: Neural Networked Facial Animation

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...

The Witcher 3 Dialogue System

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...

Animating Quadruped Characters In The Flame in The Flood

In this 2016 GDC talk, The Molasses Flood co-founder Gwen Frey illustrates techniques for effortlessly creating high quality quadruped locomotion without the ne...

The Rain World Animation Process

In this GDC 2016 Animation Bootcamp session, Rain World animators Joar Jakobsson and James Therrien break down the animation process behind their beautiful hit ...

Facial Retargeting With Automatic Range Of Motion Alignment

This new approach aims to overcome the limitations inherent with capturing motion from actors that don't physically resemble the faces of the characters they're...

Agents of Mayhem: Animating an Agent

In this re-recording of their original GDC presentation (also below), Volition Sr Animator Mike Jungbluth, Technical Animator Evan Cox, and Sr Programmers Rob R...

MiniBoss: Pixel Art Tutorials

From the Brazilian art studio behind the fantastic Towerfall Ascension, MiniBoss artists Pedro Medeiros (@saint11) and Amora Bettany (@amora_b) share their tec...

2D Animation At Klei Entertainment

In this 2014 GDC session, Klei Entertainment outline their specific goals in relation to animation quality, some of their core inspirational material and how th...