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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Capcom’s Seth Killian has talked up the benefits of 3D character models over traditional 2D sprites, citing increased audience and expedited development. "I definitely think it’s been a benefit in so ...

Character models are possibly the most important aspect of a graphical MMO. After all, the avatars that we create and play through are us in many ways, so they need to look and feel like extensions of ...