iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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MattLakeTA @mattlaketa.bsky.social · 16h

Technical Animation in Video Games returns for a second edition! Included are nearly 100 new pages, major rewrites and factors to update the text for the latest software versions, plus corrections, bug fixes, and rewrites throughout to communicate more info to you!

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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 24/09/2026

Pet project: 1) Advanced PS1/N64 game extraction (+all animations). 2) Website where you can browse and compare models, textures, animations, FMVs, for preservation. Already have FF7, Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 and MediEvil fully ripped. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame #N64

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

digging into my twitter archive for my favourite "you can tell the designer calculated this all in a spreadsheet" skill point system example

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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Jonathan Cooper @jonathan.gameanim.com · 26/09/2026

Pragmata - Diana facial capture, rig and hair system.

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sara winters, looking for new opportunities @divisionten.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Influences, streamers and content creators! I'd love to make you a free hat! My name is Sara Winters and I run @wheremyhatisat.bsky.social - I do custom embroidery, especially nerdy stuff. I'm a gamer and MTG player and blind, and make custom hats, + would love to trade some product for visibility.

A photo of four embroidered hats, the top one is yellow and says "Thall's Balls Sports Complex" in black. The next one down is a Sharlayan Studium hat of lavender text on a navy hat. Next down is an interpretive version of Kefka from FF6 with the text "u mad"? Finally, at the bottom, in lavender, is Brave Little Pogchamp in the Eorzean language on a hat.

A blue hat embroidered with "Really? Right in front of my" followed by images of two blue mana symbols from MTG.

A black hat with embroidery. There is an orange kitten holding a hand of trading cards with white text that reads "I scoop at instant speed"

A purple hat with embroidery. There is a white kitten holding a a green book with white text that reads "don't bother me, I'm reading"

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It would not be an exaggeration to say Microsoft has singlehandedly obliterated a large % of the North American AAA industry at this point

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Len @len.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Folding Obsidian into Bethesda really demonstrates how interchangeable we all are to the money people. Who cares about studio culture or identity, right? If I put tuna on a meatball sub I can eat two sandwiches at once.

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Carter Lowe @soxq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jason Benetti gets roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. #DNMW #Tigers

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Jonathan Cooper @jonathan.gameanim.com · 21/09/2026

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.

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caitlin rose boyle @caitlinroseboyle.com · 20/09/2026

incredible full indie kickoff talk by @writnelson.bsky.social

a talk at full indie - the screen says “what systems do you engage with? Will you use Linkedin and forever be banished from the light of God?”

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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 20/09/2026

Some more Kara in the Batcave shenanigans. 🦇

More Batgirl and Supergirl fanart, this time Kara having a bit of fun in one of Barman's BAT-tle suits (against Batgirls heeded warning). Cue best gravely voice impersonation: "I'm Batman! Gotham needs justice! I should drink more coffee!" I'm sure good ol' Bruce would agree with all of this.

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sara winters, looking for new opportunities @divisionten.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hey everyone! It’s my birthday today, and the best thing you could do is give me some work. Support a blind artist! You’ll get a free surprise button or magnet in any physical order between now and the 27th. I also have lots of embroidery freebies on my site. ko-fi.com/divisionten

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Support Divisionten

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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Sally Beaumont | BAFTA Breakthrough | Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve had a conversation like this at every networking event I’ve been to in the last year:

The umbrella academy driving meme. Chekhov is driving from right to left and making eye contact with Five as he drives left to right.
The captions read:
Top: diversifying into animation because the games industry is a binfire
Bottom: diversifying into games because the animation industry is a binfire.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In case you're wondering why I harp on people submitting enough keys to IGF every year, I've already seen one entry today that submitted with one(1) single steam key. Better hope the one judge who takes it likes your game

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Crunch is inevitable” guys are so funny, just openly admitting they can’t and won’t make a production plan

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Design Room @designroom.site · 09/09/2026

We're open for freelance pitches! Have any ideas for oral histories, roundtables, Q&As, or other stories that feel in line with what we've published so far? Feel free to DM. Rates typically range from $250-$750.

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Dan Jones @causeimdanjones.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Put together all the Pokemon sketches I've done lately!

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Laurielle ☕ @lauriellemaven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

5 more chapters (11-15) of @playframe.bsky.social 's #Silksong run have been doodled! Rejoice! 🔔🔔🔔

Silksong doodles over a terracotta background. Bug corpses hanging from the ceiling while Hornet pokes one with a stick. Bell-themed enemies, Widow hurling bells while Hornet fangirls a bit, Hornet checking the map, completely lost, Zaza and his rider.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is what I cycle back to. Nerds love talking bout useful tech. I am so absolutely up for boring any journo with an in depth explanation of how anything in my games was done. It’s fucking cool making games and almost as fun talking about making them. I’m not buying that anyone is proud of this

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Johan Peitz - Icy Tower is coming soon! @johanpeitz.com · 11/09/2026

picoCAD 2 is a tiny modeler for tiny models * build low poly models * texture with built in pixel art editor * animate! Have you already tried it?

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Roddy E @alteredbits.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I understand you're looking for parts for your Gummi Ship. #kingdomhearts #ANDOR

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KZ @kzxcellent.live · 10/11/2025

I read a thread about games with terrible UI earlier and this video has been destroying me all day.

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JoCat 🔜 Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 07/09/2026

Shout-out to Travis Knight, who's father is the CEO of Nike (yes THAT Nike, the shoe brand) using his immense inherited wealth to fund stop motion animation at a financial loss purely for the love of the art. Laika Studios my beloved <3

A compilation image of Laika movies: Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link, and Wildwood

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Character test animated by Raul G. Eguia for the upcoming Pokémon x Aardman stop-motion series. www.instagram.com/p/Dc0ZpKrInqE/

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 03/09/2026

~ KEEPER HAS OFFICIALLY AWAKENED ON PS5 ~ The wait is over: You can now enjoy Keeper on Playstation 5! Twig and the Lighthouse await you! 🧡 Please enjoy our heartwarming tale of companionship and mystifying metamorphosis! store.playstation.com/product/UP215…

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 03/09/2026

"No one dreams of giving themself to reshape the world. They do it because there is no other choice[.]" Feature excerpt: @edgarallanbro.bsky.social on the nature of revolution in Final Fantasy X: buff.ly/09eI3kB

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The World That Brought You to This Will Not Save You - Unwinnable

No one dreams of giving themself to reshape the world. They do it because there is no other choice.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

casual note that IGF submissions close in a week and a half so if you were thinking of getting a game in this year, time's running short! (It's fine if your build isn't bug-free right now, you can patch it over the course of the competition - esp if you submit via a steam key)

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

also if i could beam one bit of advice into the heads of bigger submittees this year it might be this. we've been seeing an increase in nextfest demo submissions over the last few years - if your game is coming out in the next 6 months it's usually way better to submit a dev build than a short demo

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Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 02/09/2026

If you too would like to stop using increasingly shitty software made by bad people who make the world worse, I wrote a guide for how to lessen/end your small team's dependence on US-based tech services: nelsanderson.zone/a-guide-to-d...

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A Guide to Ditching US Tech (for Game Developers)

This post is based on a guide from Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us, author of one excellent book and upcoming (likely also excellent) book last updated September 2nd, 2026 At this point, it's...

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Jonathan Cooper @jonathan.gameanim.com · 01/09/2026

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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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Game publishers want the staffing of film and TV without the unions that make gig-to-gig work a viable living and a sustainable business.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

working on a theory that there is an inverse relationship between the quality of a fantasy game's writing and how heavily it features generic "bandits" whose only motivation is yum yum love evil and robbing

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Devour🌱 @devoureroftime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.

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sara winters, looking for new opportunities @divisionten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am SO proud to share my piece for this year's Desert Bus! The signed Wandering Minstrel Deck Box! The box isn't signed, but the WM is! Entirely handmade, from PU leather, soft minky, cotton, vinyl, and chipboard. This box was designed, embroidered, and built by me! #mtg #ffxiv @desertbus.org

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 27/08/2026

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

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Brütal Legend | The Tainted Coil shall rule forever! by Double Fine Productions

A sale by Double Fine Productions, 100% off Brütal Legend

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aivi @aiviwave.com · 23/08/2026

hi everyone! excited to share that steven universe future is getting the vinyl treatment 💎 with vocal songs by rebecca sugar & the crewniverse & me and surasshu, instrumental score by us and jeff ball, mixing by james roach, mastering by piper payne, and performances from many dear friends 💕

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Dan Jones @causeimdanjones.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dan Jones & Dragons Spin-Off Characters!

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Cait! @caitsplace.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

LRP: Going to highly, *highly* recommend you all buy Keeper and Psychonauts 1/2/RoR if able. Keeper and PN2 in particular have some of the absolute best art direction of any game this decade

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Overworld @overworld.vg · 22/08/2026

Psychonauts Dev Now Owns All Its Games Made Under Xbox And Their Publishing Rights: ‘Buying Any Of Our Games Helps Support The Studio’ More Coverage at Overworld

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Psychonauts Dev Now Owns All Its Games Made Under Xbox And Their Publishing Rights: ‘Buying Any Of Our Games Helps Support The Studio’

'Everything, we got back, the transfer of the IP came back to us'

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Dan Floyd @danfloydplus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Now is an incredibly good time to buy a Double Fine game

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/08/2026

Every dollar billionaire JK Rowling makes is a dollar she will spend on destroying the lives of trans people - a scapegoating driven by Epstein-class billionaires to distract us from the ultra-rich draining our wealth, killing our planet, sabotaging social cohesion, and destroying dissent.

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S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏 @sarenstone.com · 20/08/2026

What if Cheats was a swarmkeeper ranger in a fantasy setting? If you wanna find out with me, you can watch us goof around in DJ&D tonight as @jocat.net runs a brand new little side campaign for us! watch along ▶️ www.twitch.tv/causeimdanjo...

A flat colored sketch of a man in mothbitten adventurers gear and a fluffy hood. He's wearing a metal helm and has a bow slung over his back, and is covered in white moths.

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