Epic Games acquires facial animation technology maker Cubic Motion Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 12, 2020 2 min Epic Games has acquired Cubic Motion, a provider of automated performance-driven facial animation technology for video games, film, broadcast, and immersive experiences such as... Continue Reading 2 min
We made Doc Ock look real — here’s how Posted byby GamesBeat April 18, 2019 4 min Humans interact with each other every day, and as such, are able to recognize a wide range of complex facial expressions. We constantly analyse... Continue Reading 4 min
Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney on creating believable digital humans Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 21, 2018 11 min Epic Games stunned everyone a couple of years ago with the realistic digital human character Senua, from the video game Hellblade. And today, the... Continue Reading 11 min
The U.K. is bringing its best game to the Game Developers Conference Posted byby GamesBeat March 7, 2018 4 min Presented by the U.K.’s Department for International Trade The U.K. is bringing its best game to GDC this year, which is really saying something.... Continue Reading 4 min
Game boss interview: Tameem Antoniades’s journey into madness with Hellblade Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 22, 2017 21 min Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is one of the best games of the year, with its terrifying account of a warrior’s journey into the depths of... Continue Reading 21 min
Epic Games demos amazing real-time motion capture for Ninja Theory’s Hellblade Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 16, 2016 1 min Ninja Theory is making a highly realistic viking psychological thriller called Hellblade. At the center of it is a woman warrior, Senua, who is... Continue Reading 1 min