Facial animation and performance capture represent a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of computer graphics, machine learning, and human–computer interaction. This discipline focuses on ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...

With an eye toward accelerating digital human production, Epic Games — creator of 'Fortnite' and developer of the Unreal gaming engine also used in Hollywood for real-time “virtual production” — has ...

AI innovation: Game development is an incredibly time-consuming and expensive process, with art and animation budgets often eating up a hefty chunk of a team's cash reserves. Believable facial ...

Take-Two has announced the acquisition of Dynamixyz, a French company specialising in video-based facial animation services, for an undisclosed sum. The two companies had previously worked together on ...

CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 is obviously a massive game. Players will be able to explore a vast city and its surrounding areas and fill a multitude of roles, but with that scale and setting comes ...

The big picture: Streamlining work in any business reduces overhead and is good for the bottom line. Epic thinks it has an Unreal Engine tool that can help developers and motion capture artists reduce ...