First day of Unreal Fest Stockholm down. Lots of animation and rigging talks. Spent yesterday running around the city capturing the best buildings.

Death Stranding 2 Perf Cap side-by-side comparisons

Kyoto Garden in Holland Park, London at the weekend.

Porth Wen Brickworks - a very Ghibli-esque place. I know that Miyazaki visited Wales during pre-production for Laputa and I wonder if he visited (or at least saw pictures of it)?

Goddamn, Metal Gear Solid 2 with texture filtering turned off is a hell of a vibe

Assassin’s Creed Edinburgh. View from the post-DICE rooftop party earlier this week.

Sonic X Shadow Generations rigging and animation behind-the-scenes

Happy National Video Games Day 😎

Tonight!

Alvin sharing the goods with the Sunderfolk Animation Style Guide

I wonder why all these great indie games are coming out of Australia where they have a massive public funding effort for videogame creators

✨ Overpriced Latte ✨ We've done another small personal 3D project, @laurasirvent.com is the best project partner!

New fighting game background discovered in Edinburgh

This Thursday is the 15th Edinburgh Game Dev Drinkup - once more in the Hollyrood 9A from 6pm.

The K-pop Ice Ice Baby is… good actually?

Hollow Knight: Silksong sprite sheet - via the Australian Centre for the Moving Image's "Game Worlds" exhibition, running between September 18th and February 8th. www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...

This is gonna be so shit I cannot wait

Gonna start posting here too

Jonathan Cooper - Tales from the Edge of Reality: Learnings from launching the Apple Vision Pro is now live on the XP Exchange archive !

Really enjoyed the Metal Eden demo. Great-looking game and gameplay is up there with Doom.

This is good news. Some time ago I had approached IATSE's Animation Guild to see if they would push for game animators to join but they wanted all game devs or nothing. Glad game animators have found a union with the CWA - hope more will sign up.

Visited Culross this week. The abbey just went on sale for offers over £35K if anyone wants to chip in for an 800 year old game studio…

Unlikely heroes in video games are the best.

Had our 25 year art school reunion at the weekend there with a screening of our old coursework in Dundee Contemporary Arts, and got a tour of the museum-like projection room.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (2025) intro cinematic storyboards

Arc System Works have collated all their presentations (in Japanese) on achieving their unique character style including skinning, rigging and rendering on this central “Academy” page.

I'm not sure how visible these are without digging, so if you're looking for indies to follow and support, check below 🙌🏻 Indie Studios: go.bsky.app/EbnyA2d Solo Indies: go.bsky.app/46HSs4C

That’s me hit my first quarter-century in game development. Marked it by hiking the tor of Clachnaben. Looking forward to the next 25 years.

This Thursday (August 14th) is the 14th Edinburgh GameDev Drinkup - at the rear of the Hollyrood 9A from 6pm.

working on my 5x2 guy's animations, trying to add some personality #gamedev #indiedev

Both good advice

If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that’s iconic to you

If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that's iconic to you

Why Eddie Alcazar Chose Clay Over Pixels For His ‘Bullet Time’ Video Game Segments

Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada intends to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September. #Canada #Palestinianstate #UN #MarkCarney #middleeast #UnitedNations

Micro Jeux

Where Winds Meet - Official Motion Capture Behind The Scenes Trailer

Applying jiggle physics principles to tank tracks for FUMES

[Expedition 33 Spoilers] - Case in point.

Plundered RetroMTL today

Good haul this week. Been wanting Raiden Trad for years.

Unreal Fest Stockholm 2025 - ticket booked

Tonight!

Quadrupeds in games are tricky, here’s the default locomotion set of Bento the dog from Somerville. The gaits are 1 walk, 2 trots and 4 x gallops all with left/right turn and incline/decline variants. #animation #gameanimation #quadrupeds

The 13th Edinburgh GameDev Drinkup is this Thursday (July 10th) at the Hollyrood 9A from 6pm

Watching F1 I see Brad Pitt drives exactly as I do in Gran Turismo.

At this stage, what is even the point of Xbox?

Just learned Vimeo is no longer accessible from the EU or UK. Apologies to anyone using the Game Anim Demo Reels group as I can no longer see it (or anything else on the site outside of my ow videos) to remove irrelevant content.