I've watched the animation industry struggle with the same problem for decades: creating believable character movement without spending months on motion capture sessions. Real-time procedural ...

Procedural Animation example in Unity. Skeletal animation uses a key frame animation clip, which contains transforms of joints in chronological order. These pre-recorded animation clips are just ...

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 with ...

Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process): ...

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 recordings of ...

Toronto-based firm SideFX has announced the availability of Houdini 16, the latest version of its procedural 3D animation and video effects software. This release includes new workflows for terrain ...