A new paper authored by researchers from Disney Research and several universities describes a new approach to procedural speech animation based on deep learning. The system samples audio recordings of ...

Dr. Llŷr ap Cenydd is the developer of two well known Oculus Rift demos: Ocean Rift and (my personal favorite) Crashland. As an expert in procedural animation, Cenydd has imbued his creatures with ...

Korean developer NCSOFT has partnered with "real-time inverse kinematics" company IKinema to bring its technology to the developer's next game. IKinema's RunTime technology allows developers to ...

Infinitesimals casts you as an alien creature, no taller than 2mm, cast adrift in an Earth-like countryside. Or perhaps it's one garden: a lawn looks like a forest at this scale, and the intimidating ...

A few months ago, Canadian company SideFX quietly released the 17th "Banshee" version of its bleeding-edge Houdini procedural animation software, which handles all sorts of physics in CGI ...

Square Enix held a lengthy presentation at GDC in Japan this week, where it discussed procedural animation for use in mechs. Is this a hint towards a new Front Mission, or something else entirely? Who ...

Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process): ...

Early this year, the internet was taken over by a very menacing, very tall woman. Gamers can’t get enough of Lady Dimitrescu, and the answer why is obvious. We’re all big rigging fans! Just like in ...