So you’ve built your Gothic castle-it’s time for your hero to dash into play and defend the battlements. Your gaming engine supports skeletons, an animation system called Inverse Kinematics (IK), and ...

Even with the assistance of automated animation features in modern game-development engines, bringing on-screen avatars to life can be an arduous and time-consuming task. However, a recent string of ...

Character animation and motion synthesis have evolved into a multidisciplinary field at the nexus of computer graphics, biomechanics, and artificial intelligence. The field aims to generate ...

If you are searching for ways to create a cinematic masterpiece right from your computer, complete with lifelike characters that talk and move just like real actors. You are sure to be interested in ...

The animation was made entirely in Blender. In fact, Nicolò and Head of CG Andrea Cigognetti spoke at the Blender Conference ...

Getting animated performances onto the screen can take time. But Jeffrey Dates, a creative director at Mill+, part of visual effects and creative content studio The Mill, has been on a mission to use ...

NPCx has raised $3 million in funding for improving motion capture for non-player characters (NPCs) in games. Kakao Investment led the round to strengthen NPCx’s position within the gaming and ...

Vincent Arogya is a Contributor for GameRant from India. He brings over a decade of writing experience spanning across a variety of industries, including digital gaming publications. Super Mario Bros ...

When a live Simpsons segment was announced several weeks ago, many speculated about how it would be achieved. Would it be via motion capture? Perhaps a markerless facial animation set-up? Ultimately, ...

The world of animation wouldn't be the same without these eight animated masterpieces that changed everything for the art ...