Animation For Video Game Cinematics Former Square Enix and Capcom (now Kojima Productions) cinematic artist and lead facial animator Delphine Zombo gives tips...
The Many Faces And Performances Of Injustice 2 Dan Weiland (@dwheezy), senior cinematics animator at Netherrealm Studios, discusses the creation of the outstanding facial performances that were...
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...
Halo 5 Facial Animation Blend Shapes Facial blend shapes from Halo 5 cinematic characters courtesy of Brad Shortt. [via Kotaku]...
On Photo-Realism In Games Below is an interview I gave a few months ago for a UK magazine on the topic of photo-realistic graphics...
The Last of Us – Cinematic Journey It’s currently tapped for several game of the year awards so now is a good time to write...
Full Performance Capture on Far Cry 3 Here is a video on Far Cry 3’s full performance capture technology, which is virtually identical to Assassin’s...
Quantic Dream’s “Kay” Demo at GDC While I may disagree with their approach to interactive storytelling, one can’t deny Quantic Dream’s ambition and accomplishment in...
Fast And Efficient Facial Rigging In Gears Of War 3 Slides from Epic technical animator Jeremy Ernst’s GDC 2011 talk about the piepline for creating facial rigs on...
Cinematic Reel : 2011 I took the time this last week to put together a reel of my work on Mass Effect...
Street Fighter IV Facial Controls Still with Capcom’s fighter, the more I play it the more I realise the actual animation is merely...
More Metal Gear Details At the risk of coming across as a fanboy, here is a second dose of Metal Gear 4...
Metal Gear Solid 4: Facial Rig & More I’ve been feeling for some time now that Japanese developers have been falling behind their western counterparts in...
Final Fantasy Face-Driven Technology This, the final talk I’ll post from GDC’08, centred on the development of the first company-wide technology platform...