destiny Archives - Game Anim

Bungie’s Technical Designers In Animation

April 16th, 2019

In this 2015 GDC session, Bungie's Jami Jeffcoat (@justjamij) explains what Technical Designers in Animation mean to Bungie, and how the position is utilized to...

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Tools-Based Rigging In Bungie’s Destiny

June 5th, 2018

In this 2015 GDC session, Bungie's David Hunt & Forrest Sderlind describe how they developed a Python codebase and toolset for Autodesk Maya utilizing objec...

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The Art Of Destiny’s First-Person Animation

April 3rd, 2017

In this 2015 GDC session, then Bungie's (now Riot's) David Helsby (@david_helsby) shows how the team created high quality first-person animation that supports D...

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Game Anim Spotlight: Richard Lico

January 27th, 2017

Richard Lico (@Foofinu) is animation director at startup studio Polyarc and has an impressive history working on successful games, (most recently the colossal D...

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Richard Lico: The Taken King Reel

November 25th, 2015

One of the most talented animators out there, Richard Lico's latest reel showcases a variety of amazingly realistic hand-keyed dancing emotes and melee combat m...

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Destiny’s Runtime Animation Rig

February 19th, 2015

Destiny animation team shares their tech (runtime rig, anim layers, action system and more)....

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Character Heads Creation Pipeline and Rendering in Bungie’s Destiny

October 6th, 2014

"In Face Animation Retargeting in Destiny, the authors explain how they were able to achieve high-quality face animation in our real-time cinematics."...

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