Great Animation Workflow Video from Blue Sky’s Patrick Giusiano
EPIC Animation Tips from Patrick Giusiano on Vimeo....
11 Principles of Puppetry
The directors of the Handspring Puppet Company in South Africa and the artists behind the internationally-acclaimed production of "War Horse" detail the essential elements of a lifelike puppet performance, most of which apply equally to animation - especially game animation where, as in the theater,...
Gamasutra – Game Animation Bootcamp: An expert roundtable Q&A
In this roundtable discussion, from last year's GDC Game Animation Bootcamp, several leading game animators talk about the unique challenges and opportunities presented by animating for games. Gamasutra - Game Animation Bootcamp: An expert roundtable Q&A....
Altering a Chicken’s Center of Mass to Reproduce Dinosaur Locomotion
As I mentioned in an earlier post, properly modeling the CoM (Center of Mass) of a character in motion is essential to producing lifelike behavior. In this interesting study, from the University of Chile, researchers examined the role of CoM in determining movement style in animals and...
The Backbone of Good In-Game Animation
The human back bone, or vertebral column consists of 33 vertebrae, of which 24 are articulated and 9 are fused at the base of the spine. In games, we don't usually deal with the bones of the sacrum and coccyx, and we often deal with...