Monday, April 21st, 2025 Posted by Jim Thacker Tutorial: Creature Animation for Games html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" The Gnomon Workshop has released Creature Animation for Games, a detailed tutorial for aspiring animators, recorded by Manticore Games Animation Lead Christian Brierley. The workshop provides over seven hours of video training in Maya. Master the art of creature animation for videogames in Maya In the workshop, Brierley provides a detailed guide to creature animation for games, suitable for both aspiring animators and more experienced artists looking to refine their skills. It consists of a series of separate exercises on common types of in-game animation: a run cycle, an attack animation, and a death animation. Each exercise begins with the fundamentals – collecting reference materials, and motion studies – before blocking out the key poses and refining the animation. The workshop uses Truong Cg Artist’s inexpensive Runner Creature rig. About the artist Christian Brierley is Animation Lead at Manticore Games. He has two decades of experience in animation for videogames, TV, music videos and feature films. His credits include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alvin and the Chipmunks 3, Gears Of War 3, Lost Planet 3, Mortal Kombat X, Oddworld: Soulstorm and New World. Pricing and availability Creature Animation for Games is available via a subscription to The Gnomon Workshop, which provides access to over 300 tutorials. Subscriptions cost $57/month or $519/year. Free trials are available. Read more about Creature Animation for Games on The Gnomon Workshop’s website Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects. Full disclosure: CG Channel is owned by Gnomon. Latest News Tutorial: Creature Animation for Games Discover how to animate run cycles, combat and death moves in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly tutorial. Monday, April 21st, 2025 LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2025 Check out the new features in the 3D software, including viewport path tracing, a new Toon Filter, and new rigging and animation tools. Friday, April 18th, 2025 Get the free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine and Houdini Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine. Friday, April 18th, 2025 See JangaFX's first demo of IlluGen, its app for in-game VFX Check out the feature set of the much-anticipated tool for creating VFX assets for games, its workflow, its release date, and its likely price. Thursday, April 17th, 2025 Autodesk releases Flame 2026 Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including OCIO support, a new Type tool and AI clip upscaling. Thursday, April 17th, 2025 Character Creator gets new free MetaTailor plugin Add-on lets you send characters from Character Creator to MetaTailor with one-click, fit 3D clothing to them, then send them back to CC4. Thursday, April 17th, 2025 More News Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1.1 Leopoly adds voxel sculpting to Shapelab 2025 Check out new 3ds Max UV unwrapping plugin UVReactor Reallusion releases iClone 8.53 with timecode support Anima 6.0 adds traffic simulation to Chaos's crowd animation tool ZibraVDB: the new standard in OpenVDB for virtual production RandomControl releases Maverick Indie and Maverick Studio 2025.1 Digital painting software Howler 2023 is now free to download Kickstart top concept designer Neville Page's new art book Tutorial: Creating Photorealistic 3D Environments Foundry unveils new ICVFX and virtual production tool Nuke Stage Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.22 Older Posts