Road to VR

New Procedural Speech Animation From Disney Research Could Make for More Realistic VR Avatars

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 ...
Road to VR

Dr. Llyr ap Cenydd, Developer of Ocean Rift: The Need for Procedural Animation in VR

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 ...
Play Station Universe

Square Enix Talks Procedural Mech Animations At GDC, Could This Hint At New Front Mission?

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 ...
InfoWorld

JavaFX script – functional and procedural programming, and animation

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): ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

NCSOFT partners with IKinema to use cost-cutting procedural animation system in next title

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 ...