History Archives - Game Anim

Sonic The Hedgehog – Intro Frames

The iconic intro to Sonic The Hedgehog (1991) was hand-drawn on traditional animation paper before being turned into...

Virtua Fighter Series Mocap

A collection of videos taken from the Virtua Fighter History bonus disc with Shenmue 2 (originally a Virtua...

Streets Of Rage 2: Art And Design Docs

While her composer brother Yuzo is most often linked to the creation of Sega’s seminal side-scrolling beat-em-up Streets...

Garou: Mark Of The Wolves – Animation Designs

Celebrating its 20th birthday last month, SNK’s offshoot from the Fatal Fury series Garou: Mark of the Wolves...

Earthworm Jim: Animation Line Drawings

The 1994 seminal classic Earthworm Jim stood out from its contemporaries with its focus on hand-drawn animation scanned...

Sonic The Hedgehog: Animation Sketches

Former Naughty Dog, (Jak & Daxter series and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune), designer Hirokazu Yasuhara (@Yasuharah), along with character designer/animator...

Mortal Kombat 1: Motion Capture Retrospective

USgamer has a great retrospective on the digitization process for the original 1992 Mortal Kombat arcade from the...

1994 Acclaim Mocap Promo

This video that screams of the 90’s is an amazing look back at the early stages of video...

Classic Sega And SNK Pixel Art Tools

Videogame archivist @VGDensetsu has two great tumblrs featuring pixel art tools from Sega and SNK. It’s fantastic to...

Earthworm Jim 2: Behind The Scenes

This classic behind-the-scenes from 90s UK video game show Bad Influence has a section highlighting the traditional animation linework...

DOOM Sprite Model Scans

For its 21st anniversary, DOOM designer John Romero shared a collection of previously unseen imagery of the stop-motion-like...

Great Women Animators From The 1800s To Present

“A working database for women animators from the late 1800’s to present. Continually changing, never complete.”...

Dick Van Dyke’s Amiga Video Toaster Work

Right up there with Andy Warhol’s Deluxe Paint dabbles – Dick Van Dyke’s Amiga Video Toaster work....

Naughty Dog’s History Of Animation

Josh Scherr talks about animation evolution at Naughty Dog....

Internet Arcade Adds 900 Classic Arcade Games

The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the...

History

Sonic The Hedgehog – Intro Frames

Virtua Fighter Series Mocap

Streets Of Rage 2: Art And Design Docs

Garou: Mark Of The Wolves – Animation Designs

Earthworm Jim: Animation Line Drawings

Sonic The Hedgehog: Animation Sketches

Mortal Kombat 1: Motion Capture Retrospective

1994 Acclaim Mocap Promo

Classic Sega And SNK Pixel Art Tools

Earthworm Jim 2: Behind The Scenes

DOOM Sprite Model Scans

Great Women Animators From The 1800s To Present

Dick Van Dyke’s Amiga Video Toaster Work

Naughty Dog’s History Of Animation

Internet Arcade Adds 900 Classic Arcade Games

The Cinematic Process Of Marvel’s Spider-Man

Why Gameplay Animators Should Be More Technical

The Animation Of Control

Robust Motion In-Betweening

Local Motion Phases for Learning Multi-Contact Character Movements

The Eyes Have It: An Integrated Eye and Face Model for Photorealistic Facial Animation

Final Fantasy XV: Pulse and Traction of Characters

Game Animator: No Mom I’m Not A Graphic Designer

Sonic The Hedgehog: Animation Sketches