Jonathan Cooper

Major milestone this week with over 100,000 downloads of the AZRI Rig! Thanks so much to @wuffles.bsky.social for creating the rig and @mafubash.bsky.social for the amazing character work. Download here for free: www.gameanim.com/product/azri...

Attending Game Talks Live tomorrow in Edinburgh. Looking forward to talks from the studio heads of both Star Wars: Galactic Racer and Silent Hill: Townfall

Was just contacted by a trash AI 3D model company's PR firm to create posts sharing their tools for a price, so be wary of any artists doing that in the near future.

“But nobody thinks [physical media] is necessary for a networked device like a smartphone, for example, because people feel that they will keep their content” Perfect analogy. I have a load of iOS purchases I can no longer access after delisting.

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

Tokyo Indies had the good shit tonight

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“AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself" — 'Wildwood' director Travis Knight

Attention Scottish voice actors! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎤 We’re gearing up to cast an upcoming project, which will require an (almost) all Scottish cast! So watch this space, if it’s nae bother.

📣 INDIE GAMES DEVS! 📣 If you have a demo in Steam Next Fest and do not use gen AI, drop it in the comments below. I will repost! Let's create a thread where players can actually find our games! (Image courtesy of @kanaratron.bsky.social)

Fantastic stuff. Brings back fond memories of 3DSMax Biped

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

“Uh oh our chair on the mocap stage was too short! What do we do? Remodel the sofa? Re animate the characters??” Environment artist: “I got you”

I actually read “Up yours!” as if the billionaire was doing this and it sounded no less petulant.

New site from @harveynewman.com that tracks open game animation jobs in realtime anim.works/studiowatch/

The hindsight gained when you lose your greatest human creatives…

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm a 3D animator with a love for animating dynamic characters and cameras. Got a new highlight reel of a handful of stuff I've worked on over the years!

If you are at Epic using generative AI to create art or animations you are a plagiarist and a thief and should never show your work (or face) in the gamedev community again.

The original Grand Theft Auto was open-world because "we didn't want to have to build a front end", the game's lead programmer says. Members of the original GTA team recently shared a wealth of details about the game's development: www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-ori...

Got my copy and impressed with how much beefier it is than the original. Lots of info on the new animation tech added to Unreal and more.

Bare Knuckle II (Streets of Rage 2) in the actual streets of Tokyo, #PassthroughMod by @gwendall "I’ve been building an engine to reconstruct games and re-render them in new ways. One of them is spatial rendering. This runs standalone on Meta Quest 3 with a PS5 gamepad."

This Thursday the 8th is the 27th Edinburgh Gamedev Drinkup - starting at 6pm at the Brewdog Doghouse.

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Great day yesterday sharing mocap best-practices with the latest Abertay University MSc in Technical Art & Visual Effects cohort.

Matt's Technical Animation in Video Games has helped me a lot and this updated revision should be an essential purchase for every animator working in video games.

Great experience advising some incredibly talented highschoolers, students and recent graduates this morning. Returned some optimism for the future of the games industry.

Glad to have left a mark on the Canadian gamedev scene (I worked on 3 of these).

I knew a programmer at EA in Montreal who wore one of these. She was eternally frustrated that engine programmers would call themselves engineers.

Just watched this on Netflix. Both her and her husband are absolutely mental.

Very much enjoying all the mundanely familiar UK scenery details in Silent Hill: Townfall.

Ninja Theory closing is such a loss. The only UK team that can really go toe-to-toe with the best out there in terms of 3rd-person action gameplay.

Devil May Cry 3 (2005) motion capture behind-the-scenes and live-action previz. Capcom were really ahead of the game in terms of stunt choreography even then.

this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there

I stepped away from socials back in 2020. Coming back, I find a games industry that's changed a lot since I left - in good ways, and in hard ways. I'm looking forward to being part of the community again. 👋

Checkout line magazines are different in the UK

Cowardly Corporate Fuck is perfect - well done that person.

What a combo. Never knew this existed, and funny because I literally left Scotland for Canada to make Mass Effect while most others in my then studio went on to make Crackdown. Both 9/10!

Fucksake I have to do that Water Temple again…

🙋‍♂️I shall also be in attendance.

This Thursday the 10th is the 27th Edinburgh Gamedev Drinkup - starting at 6pm at the Brewdog Doghouse. We have a few tables booked for the balcony so hoping for good weather (may be a little too optimistic). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/game-dev-d...

This is something that really shouldn't have been normalized in the gaming industry.