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Game Anim Website on video game animation - since 2005. Since 2005 he has kept this blog to share articles on video game animation.

Website of Jonathan Cooper - an award-winning video game animator and author with a consistent track record of shipping successful games in a variety of roles, from in-game and cinematic animator to lead and director positions, with a focus on creating unforgettable experiences. He has presented at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco and other conferences across Canada and the UK, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Design related to animation.

Happy National Video Games Day 😎
12/09/2025

Happy National Video Games Day 😎

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Tekken 8 Muscle Deformation
19/04/2025

Tekken 8 Muscle Deformation

Backbone Studio’s Kentaro Fukumoto () showed off the joint-based RBF (Radial Basis Function) muscle solution for Bandai Namco’s Tekken 8 during a CEDEC24 showing in Japan …

Monster Hunter: Wilds - Mocap Demonstration
15/12/2024

Monster Hunter: Wilds - Mocap Demonstration

Capcom recently gave a press demo of mocap streamed to their RE Engine in realtime at their Osaka offices. On hand were Monster Hunter: Wilds lead player animator Hiroya Sasaki, lead enemy animator Kenji Yamaguchi, and animator Naohiro Taniguchi. The actors being directed were Daichi Miura and Masat...

Unreal Engine 5 - Animation Tools
16/09/2024

Unreal Engine 5 - Animation Tools

Epic have added major support for creating animation within the Unreal Engine over the last few months, and have given several presentations about the features at the recent Unreal Fest 2024 in Prague. Here they all are listed below, beginning with a breakdown of Epic’s incredibly generous free Ga...

31/08/2024

Final Fantasy XVI - Cinematic Production

17/08/2024

New Tales From The Borderlands - Automated Cinematic Pipeline

09/08/2024

The Making Of Forspoken Cutscenes

26/07/2024

Animating Spider-Man 2

Larian Cinematics: A Top-Down Look At Our Bottom-Up Approach In Baldur's Gate 3
13/06/2024

Larian Cinematics: A Top-Down Look At Our Bottom-Up Approach In Baldur's Gate 3

In this GDC 2024 talk, Larian Games’ cinematic director Jason Latino () discusses the realities of making a game at the scale of Baldur’s Gate 3, forcing a change in tools, …

Interview With Metal Gear Solid (1998) Motion Director - So Toyota
02/06/2024

Interview With Metal Gear Solid (1998) Motion Director - So Toyota

Motion director So Toyota, who worked on Metal Gear Solid 1-4, discusses the animation of the original Metal Gear Solid (1998).

Game Animation Fundamentals For Everyone
07/05/2024

Game Animation Fundamentals For Everyone

From last years’ Sumo Games internal Sumo Developer Conference, this talk by Timbre Games’ principal animator Candace Debacker () highlights how my proposed 5 Game Animation …

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