Great animation tutorial in Develop

[marque_pierre]

If you don't already read Develop magazine (a monthly for European games developers http://www.developmag.com ) get a copy of the latest issue.

There is a great tutorial article on embedding bodylanguage into character animation. Essentially to make animation support storytelling and gameplay better in games, but the tips are useful for any kind of animation. I seem to remember Christiaan Moleman/Ninja Dodo showing off WIPs on CG Talk a while ago when he was carrying out the research/project...

Anyway, well worth your time.

[capone_adam]

Yeah I got my copy in the post today and it was the first thing I looked at. Its true, games don't really take advantage of animation as much as they could. Hopefully this article will be ready by many...

[OL]

do they ship to america?

[Lee3dee]

i think barnes and Nobles in the US sells this, they sell alot of european 3d imagry magazines. I'd look there.

[marque_pierre]

They DO ship global. But then you have to pay a bit. When I lived back in Denmark, I made a deal with the subscription manager, so you can press the price a bit. I guess you Yanks can get GamesDeveloper freely, and this is what you get likewise in the UK. The magazine is a lot different from GDMag though, but I personally feel out of the loop without either of them.

[ReNo]

First thing I looked at was the Develop 100 - the included top 100 worldwide developer's based on UK profits last year. Interesting read, and quite a lot of surprises in there (in amongst even more less surprising facts - 3 EA studios are in the top 10).

The article you mention was interesting though, even for non-animators such as myself.

[marque_pierre]

I remember I managed to get them to ship me several sample issues before they said, now you gotta subscribe! So ask for a sample issue.

Christie Connolly runs their subscriptions: christie . connolly @ intentmedia.co.uk