Left 4 Dead Opening Cinematic breakdown

http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=2081

a nice little breakdown on how cinematics could be handled

TF2 Meet The...

Meet the Sniper

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35249.html

Meet the Scout

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33023.html

Meet the Demo

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/26185.html

Meet the Engineer (my favorite)

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24784.html

Meet the Soldier

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23880.html

Meet the Heavy

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/19522.html

Valve GDC Presentations

I know, I know.. it’s not animation, but I ran across these last night and thought a few would find them at least somewhat interesting. The Portal one is pretty great with respect to bringing together a minimal story and minimal design with a simple gameplay and coming out with a fantastic game.



The TF2 one is pretty good if you’re interested in the design of iconic characters (or really deep into realtime rendering magic math). If you’re an artist I recommend just checkin out the video from last year “illustrative rendering in TF2” because it’s a lot of the same info with almost 0 math and that’s why we went to art school in the first place isn’t it?


http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications.html