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See A Motion-Captured Face Come To Life
A well-animated face can be the difference between empathizing with a game character and looking at a glassy-eyed marionette. That’s why this mocap tech demo so strangely moving. The video above is a demonstration of the current animation pipeline from a company called 3lateral (who were responsible for rigging the faces in Ryse and Grand…
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Mega Man X Makes A Much Cooler Statue Than The Original
Back is September, First 4 Figures revealed thefirst in their new line of Mega Man statues. It was nice, if a bit too Astro Boy for my tastes. Now the company unveils its first Mega Man X statue. That’s more like it. Not that I have anything against the original Mega Man. He’s an adorable…
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The Not-Particularly-Secret Origin Of Homestar Runner
From children’s book to web series to Telltale adventure game to a four-year stint as an incredibly quiet thing, Homestar Runner was one of the first really important things on the internet. Where did it come from? Atlanta, of course. Specifically Dunwoody, Georgia, where series creators Mike and Mark Chapman (the Brothers Chaps) attended school…
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That’s It, I’m Done With Facebook Games
Today Facebook announced its 2014 Games of the Year. The top winner? Cookie Jam, a Candy Crush Saga clone. If this is the best Facebook has to offer, I’m done. I realize that most of our readership was done with Facebook games from the word FarmVille. They’re bothersome, annoying, formulaic, et cetera. But I’ve seen…
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DayZ Fan-Film Got All The Game’s Silly Glitches Right
FireFilms’ live action short got right not just the glitches, like the zombie bypassing walls, but also all the humor that comes with the game: the weird way characters move, the eerie locations, the handcuffs and, of course, the disinfectant sprays. DayZ (Fan Film) – Live Action [YouTube] To contact the author of this post,…
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Driveclub‘s Dynamic Weather Update Completely Changes The Game
Two days ago I was bored with Driveclub. Today each race is exhilarating, often terrifyingly so, and all that’s changed is the weather. Now that most of the connection kinks have been worked out, Evolution Studios dropped its promised post-release dynamic weather update on the PlayStation 4’s once-troubled online racer,and it’s pretty much the best…
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As they always say, the sincerest form of flattery is when someone remakes your stuff in Unreal Engine 4. This time, the remakee is Hideo Kojima’s P.T., and the remaker is level artist Jonathan Vallieres, this being his first, 2.5-month UE4 project. Video’s below, and you can find lots of WIP shots here UE4 –…
By András Neltz
