destiny Archives - Game Anim

Bungie’s Technical Designers In Animation

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...

Tools-Based Rigging In Bungie’s Destiny

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...

The Art Of Destiny’s First-Person Animation

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...

Game Anim Spotlight: Richard Lico

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

Richard Lico: The Taken King Reel

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...

Destiny’s Runtime Animation Rig

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

Character Heads Creation Pipeline and Rendering in Bungie’s Destiny

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