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Award-winning game developer. Animated Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted and more. Wrote @GameAnimBook. Shipped visionOS and Apple Vision Pro.

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Fuck it - here's something for #N7Day I haven't shown before. A very pre-alpha internal trailer intended to highlight the cinematics we were creating in Montreal. Faces were the average of all the customisation sliders in Maya, and we ran every scene with each possible squamate when polishing.
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Fuck it - here's something for #N7Day I haven't shown before. A very pre-alpha internal trailer intended to highlight the cinematics we were creating in Montreal. Faces were the average of all the customisation sliders in Maya, and we ran every scene with each possible squamate when polishing.

Jonathan Cooper

113,677 views • 3 days ago

Pragmata - Diana facial capture, rig and hair system.
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Pragmata - Diana facial capture, rig and hair system.

Jonathan Cooper

996,807 views • 1 month ago

Street Fighter 6 muscle reference-gathering with Capcom lead character artist Kawade Tsutomu
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Street Fighter 6 muscle reference-gathering with Capcom lead character artist Kawade Tsutomu

Jonathan Cooper

4,144,468 views • 2 years ago

Capcom shows off mocap directly into RE Engine with the greater level of accuracy in evaluation afforded by characters with full runtime rigs and physics etc (vs direct to DCC/Motionbuilder shown also).
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Capcom shows off mocap directly into RE Engine with the greater level of accuracy in evaluation afforded by characters with full runtime rigs and physics etc (vs direct to DCC/Motionbuilder shown also).

Jonathan Cooper

927,871 views • 3 years ago

Sonic X Shadow Generations rigging and animation behind-the-scenes
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Sonic X Shadow Generations rigging and animation behind-the-scenes

Jonathan Cooper

137,427 views • 1 year ago

Donkey Kong Country (1994) animated and rendered on Silicon Graphics machines using Alias PowerAnimator.
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Donkey Kong Country (1994) animated and rendered on Silicon Graphics machines using Alias PowerAnimator.

Jonathan Cooper

334,414 views • 3 years ago

Hi Fi Rush BPM-synced animation Unreal test level
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Hi Fi Rush BPM-synced animation Unreal test level

Jonathan Cooper

297,637 views • 3 years ago

Onimusha: Way of the Sword mocap was creatively used for swordsmen and creatures. That multi-arm setup is similar to how we shot the Rat King on TLOU2.
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Onimusha: Way of the Sword mocap was creatively used for swordsmen and creatures. That multi-arm setup is similar to how we shot the Rat King on TLOU2.

Jonathan Cooper

25,788 views • 2 months ago

Can't believe it's been 10 years since the release of Uncharted 4! Here's an excerpt from my 2017 Animation Exchange talk on creating the chase sequence.
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Can't believe it's been 10 years since the release of Uncharted 4! Here's an excerpt from my 2017 Animation Exchange talk on creating the chase sequence.

Jonathan Cooper

53,578 views • 6 months ago

Awesome montage of even earlier prototypes for Hi-Fi Rush. Shown at last week's CEDEC 2023 presentation by game director johnjohanas and lead game designer Masaaki Yamada.
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Awesome montage of even earlier prototypes for Hi-Fi Rush. Shown at last week's CEDEC 2023 presentation by game director johnjohanas and lead game designer Masaaki Yamada.

Jonathan Cooper

183,584 views • 3 years ago

Aladdin (1993) for Genesis/MegaDrive - animation line tests and sprite optimisation process.
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Aladdin (1993) for Genesis/MegaDrive - animation line tests and sprite optimisation process.

Jonathan Cooper

146,763 views • 3 years ago

Final Fantasy XVI face rig adds multiple in-between phases via driven-keys to avoid linear interpolation between poses.
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Final Fantasy XVI face rig adds multiple in-between phases via driven-keys to avoid linear interpolation between poses.

Jonathan Cooper

103,824 views • 2 years ago

Released 30 years ago today! Bio Hazard / Resident Evil gameplay mocap and live-action behind-the-scenes. From the Birth of Bio Hazard VHS
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Released 30 years ago today! Bio Hazard / Resident Evil gameplay mocap and live-action behind-the-scenes. From the Birth of Bio Hazard VHS

Jonathan Cooper

29,219 views • 7 months ago

Wow, can't believe Koizumi gave us all his FACS data like that for free...
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Wow, can't believe Koizumi gave us all his FACS data like that for free...

Jonathan Cooper

15,650 views • 6 months ago

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth's conversation generator in Unreal. Shown at this week's CEDEC 2024:
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Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth's conversation generator in Unreal. Shown at this week's CEDEC 2024:

Jonathan Cooper

14,250 views • 2 years ago

Tekken 8 muscle deformation via RBF joint system looks super-impressive.
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Tekken 8 muscle deformation via RBF joint system looks super-impressive.

Jonathan Cooper

10,397 views • 1 year ago

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