Many indie devs feel like they’re under pressure to make high-quality art that rivals that of big-budget studios —\u00a0with the smallest team size and budget possible.<\/p>\n
At GDC 2017 The Molasses Flood’s Gwen Frey, self-described\u00a0sole animator and over-tasked generalist on\u00a0The Flame in The Flood<\/em>, discussed\u00a0how to rapidly generate triple-A\u00a0quadruped locomotion as an indie dev.<\/p>\n It was a\u00a0video-heavy talk that focused\u00a0on animation authoring and state blending for quadruped characters. According to Frey, these characters have unique foot sliding challenges and traditional solutions result in either poor fidelity motion or a bloated animator workload.<\/p>\n Frey shared some techniques for illustrating\u00a0high-quality quadruped locomotion without the need for transition animations, using two different\u00a0quadruped characters as examples\u00a0– a boar with a rigid spine, and a large, gangling wolf with a procedural spine.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was a fascinating talk, one that you can now\u00a0watch\u00a0for free over on\u00a0the official GDC YouTube channel<\/a>!<\/p>\n In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its new\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC, GDC Europe, and GDC Next already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the\u00a0GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many indie devs feel like they’re under pressure to make high-quality art that rivals that of big-budget studios —\u00a0with the smallest team size and budget possible. At GDC 2017 The Molasses Flood’s Gwen Frey, self-described\u00a0sole animator and over-tasked generalist on\u00a0The Flame in The Flood, discussed\u00a0how to rapidly generate triple-A\u00a0quadruped locomotion as an indie dev. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}