Jonathan Cooper

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

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

Tonight!

This Thursday the 14th is the 23rd Edinburgh Game Dev Drink Up. Tables at the front of the Hollyrood 9A from 6pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/game-dev-dri…

Full presentation is here: youtube.com/watch?v=0Hpk0l…

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.

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

SNK’s new Osaka mocap stage with realtime retargeting to Ryo and Yuri Sakazaki

Bringing digital humans to life will always require an artist's touch. Made in @UnrealEngine with #MetaHuman Thanks to @MelindaOzel for her FACS resources @Anatomy_app @guy_penso_music @JakeHicksPhoto @PugetSystems @XsensEnt @Glassboxtech @creativecloud #digitalhuman

Great to see some of these animations getting a new lease of life. Definitely one of the best in the series so can't wait to play again. youtube.com/watch?v=c-KfuC…

Did you know @riotgames used Moho to animate their latest @VALORANT short? The end result is an emotional, stunning short film packed with details for Valorant fans! You can watch it on the Valorant YT channel #riotgames #valorant #mohoanimation #2danimation #2drigging #moho

Scoped out Andor’s imperial garrison (Cruachan Dam on Hollow Mountain).

A youthful Halo 3 (2007) animation lead @bentllama and team show the animation reference for this seminal title.

Tomorrow is the 22nd Edinburgh Game Dev Drink Up. Tables at the back of the Hollyrood 9A from 6pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/game-dev-dri…

what the fuck

New monocular motion capture system. Incredible quality from a single iPhone video.

This is exactly how I envision the future of Non-VR games Instead of just a 2D window or even just adding stereo-3D to it — make it a fully 6DoF “portal” to the game you’re playing Fully adjustable, resizable, and maybe in the future: affect your real life world with special FX

Lost a real one today. OG Halo animator and the real life prototype of the Brute Chieftain. I don't have details, but there is a GoFundMe for his dependents. gofundme.com/f/support-for-…

The NBA app on Apple Vision Pro just dropped a massive update. World View (Alpha) puts you inside a live 3D recreation of the game. Every player and ref tracked in real time, rendered in NBA city-inspired environments, with visual effects when buckets drop or shots clank off the rim. You can move around the court using waypoints and even pull up the live broadcast synced to the 3D recreation simultaneously. The models aren’t photorealistic yet, but the tracking is impressively accurate. When they start mapping real likenesses onto these, it’s going to be something else entirely. Lastly, Tabletop is now called Court View. The NBA keeps pushing spatial computing forward. I love to see it!

Given in February 2025 in Dundee’s Abertay cyberQuarter research centre, my talk on Learnings from Launching the Apple Vision Pro is now public. Give it a watch if you’re interested in mixed reality or the experience of Apple’s internal culture from the perspective of a game developer. #VR #AR #XR youtube.com/watch?v=RpS1L4…

I've been building something in stealth for about a year. Today it's finally out in the world 🧵