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 ...

Creating a successful game is an art. There are many elements that must be integrated effectively, including the characters. Character design plays a critical role in the success of a game; the way ...

Animated films are full of specialties that most viewers can’t see, and one of the most important is character animation, where the animators become the actors who bring characters to life. On… ...

We’ve seen King Kong on film before – several times – but not like this. In past outings, the famous ape has been achieved with stop motion, full and partial scale animatronics, and via motion capture ...

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 ...

Gematsu recently sat down with Toshiyuki Kubooka, the character designer and animation director behind the LUNAR series, to discuss the remastered editions of LUNAR: Silver Star Story and LUNAR: ...

Cartoonist and animator Garry Pye produced a full 2d animated film in two weeks using Cartoon Animator (CTA) and leveraging its tools to craft professional-level animation. Join Pye as he shares his ...