Making Of Archives

Animating A Tactile Connection In The Pathless

Giant Squid animator Joel Finney (@izzyLizzard) shares a great example of multiple authored animations scrubbing and blending together to produce a satisfying ...

Animating The Aliens Of XCOM 2

Greg Foertsch and Dennis Moellers, the Art Director and Lead Animator of Firaxis Games' XCOM 2, talk about the animation that goes into bringing the aliens to l...

How Blizzard Created Warcraft III’s Classic Cinematics

VP of Story at Blizzard, Jeff Chamberlain, talks us through the creation process of Warcraft III: Reforged's re-imagined announcement Cinematic, focusing on sto...

Detroit: Become Human – Mocap Behind-The-Scenes

This promotional behind-the-scenes video for Detroit: Become Human has some great info on the sheer scale of the project. Some highlights include: 10...

Prince Of Persia (2008) Animation Behind The Scenes

A compilation of animation behind-the-scenes b-roll footage of Prince of Persia (2008). A vastly underappreciated game due to favouring accessibility over chall...

The Last Of Us: Previsualization

A rare insight into the early stages of game development, David Lam's below video was part of the initial pitch material to Sony executives to help green light ...

Battlefield 1: Weapon Animation Breakdowns

DICE LA animation lead Ryan Duffin (@AnimationMerc) has put together these fantastic animation breakdowns of some of the more complex animations and systems tha...

Dead Cells: A 3D Pipeline For 2D Animation

Motion Twin's Thomas Vasseur explains the thinking that went into the creation of a 3D pipeline to produce 2D pixel art and animation for their impressive-looki...

Motion Fields In UFC 3

UFC 3 creative director Brian Hayes describes the use of motion fields for more fluid movement in EA's UFC 3. Find the article here....

The Importance Of Animation In Tennis World Tour

The team at Breakpoint discuss the mocap and integration process for their upcoming animation-intensive tennis game. Read the article here....

Unruly Heroes: Animation Process

Unruly Heroes from Magic Design Studios has a fantastic 2D line-drawn animation process that brings the characters to life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r...

Sonic Mania’s Opening Animatic

Early animatic for Sonic Mania shown during recent live stream with director Tyson Hesse (@tyson_hesse). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czXiojPPf-Q And t...