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Story Kitchen teams with Dreamworks Animation to adapt video games to film and TV

Game Developer

Not content with eventually bringing Dredge to film, Story Kitchen plans to work with Dreamworks on making hit games into animated movies and shows.

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From commercial animation to indie game debut success: The story of Ember Lab

GamesIndustry.biz

Ember Lab has been around since 2009, starting out as a company specialising in commercial animation and digital content. Speaking to the two softly spoken brothers at Develop, the difference between media matters less than being able to tell a story with original content. "We Read more

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At what stage of the developing process of a game mocap is recorded? How much time does it usually take? And in case of expansions/DLCs are actors called again or they record this content together with the content for the main game?

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Motion/Performance capture usually happens fairly early during development, because animators need time to take the captured data and turn it into actual performances. Much of what animators do during production is this performance capture cleanup and modification/adjustment.

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CGS 2D animation students give depth to flat characters and objects

CG Spectrum

With advancements in technology and software, 2D animation has become a more affordable and less time-consuming art form than its 3D cousin, making it a popular choice for industries such as mobile gaming, commercials and educational content. Explore our 2D animation courses! 2D ANIMATION COURSES

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Nuverse lets AI do all the talking and moving of NPCs in Earth: Revival

PreMortem.Games

Chinese developer and publisher Nuverse is using AI for all NPC speech and animation in games. For its upcoming science fiction survival title Earth: Revival the development team used a system to generate speech and compute full body animations for NPCs, without any manual intervention. That can be very tedious and repetitive work.”

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So how much $ (in general) does it cost to produce a fully animated/rigged, fully voiced 1-3 minute cutscene in a game that’s in ongoing development (something like SWTOR, where they have a lot of prebuilt assets)? Like just a general low range and high range? I’m seeing a lot of people complaining about prioritizing content they want, and don’t know enough about the behind the scenes costs to properly communicate they’re being unrealistic with their complaints.

Ask a Game Dev

The cost of any content in game dev is directly proportional to how much new stuff needs to be created for that content. If the character needs to animate differently than everyone else (i.e. If the cutscene needs new animations we need to bring on an animator to spend time building the new animations needed for the cutscene.

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What’s the Difference Between 2D and 3D Animation

Moonmana

What is Animation? Animation occupies an essential place in the video game development industry. Everyone has heard this term but does everyone know precisely what animation is? . In simple terms, animation means rapidly displaying still images in sequence to create the illusion of movement. What is 2D Animation?