One of the best things about any Game Developers Conference is that it's where much of the interesting tech soon to hit our video games is first shown off. It's no surprise, then, that it's been the ...

The Last of Us Part II truly pushed the envelop regarding its story, art director, sound design, and gameplay. Its animations, specifically facial animations, are no exception. Keith Paciello, the ...

As technology has allowed videogames to become more and more realistic, animation techniques have also evolved to bring characters to life. In just the past 15 years, developers have moved from ...

Recent Naughty Dog games haven’t just been praised for their story; they’ve also been lauded for their photorealistic graphics, from the stunning vistas to the character models themselves. The Last of ...

CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 is obviously a massive game. Players will be able to explore a vast city and its surrounding areas and fill a multitude of roles, but with that scale and setting comes ...

Electronic Arts has filed a patent for a new approach to facial modeling and animation that’s intended to heighten realism. Crafting lifelike human models capable of authentically emoting has been a ...

Thanks to a recent acquisition, future Rockstar games like GTA 6 could have facial animations that rival L.A. Noire. Take-Two Interactive has purchased leading motion capture company Dynamixyz for and ...

AI development company Runway has released an AI tool called ' Act-One ' that allows you to easily transfer the facial expressions of a person to an AI-generated character just by taking a video of ...

MetaHuman Animator, the next-gen version of Epic Games’ MetaHuman avatar tool, is here — and we gotta say, it looks pretty remarkable. Epic’s MetaHuman tool, which was first unveiled back in 2021, was ...

Animators have a tough task creating realistic animations that reflect the nuances and emotions of real people. But Mixamo has created a game development tool called Face Plus that can capture a face ...

Easily turn any photo or graphic into a realistic, talking animations. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals Digital animation seems like magic, but it’s actually pretty simple — if you have the right tools. And ...

A US start-up out of Bell Labs has developed a way of producing realistic animation of a face at low bit rates using an ordinary video stream. The work opens up the possibility of having talking heads ...