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 ...

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The Disney 12 principles of animation are often considered as a basis for all animation, not just movies and cartoons. These rules of animation may have been drawn up decades ago, but they remain just ...

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 ...

Lisa is a character animator who's been creating animation for games and film for fifteen years. Her craft involves understanding how characters move, breathe, gesture, and express emotion through ...

Pixar had to unlearn some basic animation rules to pull off a more graphic 2D look for a tween and her inner beast, inspired by anime. “I grew up watching anime films as much as Disney and Pixar,” ...

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: ...