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 ...

Both procedural state changes and functional relationships derived from them are conceptually “instantaneous”. By contrast, “animation” describes what we perceive to be continuous state ...

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 ...

Square Enix's GDC presentation looks at procedural animation for mechs, sparking hope for a new Front Mission game.

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 ...

Rag dolls, which rely on physics-based procedural animation, still use a rig to help the body maintain a roughly humanoid shape, even though it gets all wobbly at the joints.