@GameAnim

Award-winning game developer. Animated Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted and more. Wrote @GameAnimBook. Shipped visionOS and Apple Vision Pro.

 Scotland
gameanim.com
Joined January 2009
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Major milestone this week with over 100,000 downloads of the AZRI Rig! Thanks so much to @wuffles for creating the rig and @mafubash for the amazing character work. Download here for free: gameanim.com/product/azri-ri…
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Pragmata - Diana facial capture, rig and hair system.
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More detailed shots. From this CEDEC 2026 talk "Making Diana" by Capcom lead facial animator Serina Ohara & lead character artist Kenji Irie youtube.com/watch?v=j0K7T9zn…
Diana FACS rig

ALT Diana FACS rig

Diana hair strand relaxation in Maya Xgen Interactive Grooming

ALT Diana hair strand relaxation in Maya Xgen Interactive Grooming

Diana's hair strands converted to cards in Maya

ALT Diana's hair strands converted to cards in Maya

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Jonathan Cooper retweeted
Jonathan Cooper
@GameAnim
Sep 21
Devil May Cry 3 (2005) motion capture behind-the-scenes and live-action previz. Capcom were really ahead of the game in terms of stunt choreography even then.
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Devil May Cry 3 (2005) motion capture behind-the-scenes and live-action previz. Capcom were really ahead of the game in terms of stunt choreography even then.
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The above videos came on UMD from the Japanese DMC3 artbook, Note of Naught. Here are a couple more mocap cuts and live-action prreviz sequences.
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Erica Pinto@psyham
Sep 11
I'm not very active on social media these days, but I will be at @LightBoxExpo to moderate this panel! I'll be joined by @SebDussault and @AndyJLatham, hope to see you there😍
ASIFA-Hollywood@ASIFAHollywood
Sep 11
Join us at one of our #asifahollywood panels, Leveling Up a Career in Gaming Animation, on Sunday, October 25th, 2026, at #lightboxexpo! To learn more about LightBox Expo: lightboxexpo.com/participant… To learn more about ASIFA-Hollywood: asifa-hollywood.org/
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Laura Lico@Foofinu
3 Aug 2017
Since she can only squeak, I figured I'd play around with ways she can communicate with the player. Also a great perk for our deaf players.
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State of Palestine
@Palestine_UN
Sep 6
Palestinian children watch Lion King in Gaza. 📸 Omar Ashtawy
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This Thursday the 10th is the 27th Edinburgh Gamedev Drinkup - starting at 6pm at the Brewdog Doghouse. We have a few tables booked for the balcony so hoping for good weather (may be a little too optimistic). eventbrite.co.uk/e/game-dev-…

Game Dev DrinkUp Edinburgh

A meetup for game developers in the Edinburgh area, on the 2nd Thursday of every month.

eventbrite.co.uk
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40代になると絵が下手になるというポストを見たので データが消えて描き直した絵があるので比較 左が20代の絵で右が50代の絵
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Onimusha: Way of the Sword mocap was creatively used for swordsmen and creatures. That multi-arm setup is similar to how we shot the Rat King on TLOU2.
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From this PC Gamer preview here: youtube.com/watch?v=pIHYi-jk…

After 20 years, Onimusha is back! | Onimusha: Way of the Sword...

Twenty-five years ago, Onimusha: Warlords kicked off a beloved acti...

youtube.com
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Dean Evans@SpleenZilla
Aug 28
I made this trailer 🥹
Obsolete Sony
@ObsoleteSony
Aug 27
The first GTA: San Andreas trailer debuted through MTV on August 20, 2004, 67 days before release.
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These are the patents that likely contributed to this explosion in animation data: patents.google.com/patent/US… patents.google.com/patent/US… patents.google.com/patent/US…
Jonathan Cooper
@GameAnim
Aug 28
“Rockstar stated that GTA 6 features over 600,000 NPC animations, compared to 300,000 in RDR2 and 55,000 in GTA 5.”
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Best acting at the Fringe. Toma gets a ring-out on Waka at The Sumo Show: Hirakazu.
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“Rockstar stated that GTA 6 features over 600,000 NPC animations, compared to 300,000 in RDR2 and 55,000 in GTA 5.”
GamesIndustry
@GIBiz
Aug 28
Rockstar Games established a new team focused on developing more realistic NPCs for Grand Theft Auto 6 The highly-anticipated game will build upon "the level of interactive fidelity" of Red Dead Redemption 2 gamesindustry.biz/rockstar-f…
Grand Theft Auto 6 screenshot. A group of people stand in a dimly lit hallway, some facing a central figure in athletic wear.

ALT Grand Theft Auto 6 screenshot. A group of people stand in a dimly lit hallway, some facing a central figure in athletic wear.

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Jim Jagger@JimJagger
Aug 28
What a wonderful boost. Incredibly proud of all the teams, with a special shoutout to the animation team for pouring so much heart and craft into every frame. This is easily the greatest game I’ve had the pleasure of working on. Bring on November!
Rockstar Games
@RockstarGames
Aug 27
Watch Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look. Now on @netflix: netflix.com/GTAVI
Grand Theft Auto 6 art featuring Jason and Lucia wearing bandanas to cover the lower half of their faces, armed with handguns. In the background, a vehicle with an open passenger door is parked at a gas station against a pink and purple sky. Under the Grand Theft Auto 6 logo, text reads: An Extended Look. Netflix. Now Playing.

ALT Grand Theft Auto 6 art featuring Jason and Lucia wearing bandanas to cover the lower half of their faces, armed with handguns. In the background, a vehicle with an open passenger door is parked at a gas station against a pink and purple sky. Under the Grand Theft Auto 6 logo, text reads: An Extended Look. Netflix. Now Playing.

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Good morning to all the game directors bouncing into work today to ask for features they saw in the GTA trailer.
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kate bush’s husband@airbagg3d
Aug 26
3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3
Anaġi ❄@hopson3233
Aug 26
Replying to @airbagg3d
It would be nice to see the outtakes since this is the one where he held it together the best
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This was my old team. They’re even finding game devs hidden in tech.
Mark Gurman
@markgurman
Aug 21
BREAKING: Apple is largely eliminating its Vision Pro gaming team, scaling back its Vision Pro immersive video team and cutting jobs across both Siri and its Intelligence Systems Experience team in software engineering. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Apple Cuts Jobs in Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams

Apple Inc. is cutting jobs across teams responsible for the Siri digital assistant and the Vision Pro headset, part of an effort to focus on new devices and artificial intelligence.

bloomberg.com
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