Unity Wētā Tools has announced their newest tools to help artists work more efficiently on digital character creation and in film production.

Phase-Functioned Neural Networks for Character Control is a fundamentally new way of handling character animation that will be presented at the ACM's upcoming SIGGRAPH conference this summer.

They’re a web-based service that helps developers rig and animate 3D characters by making rigging and animation easier. A developer can upload the mesh for a character, place joint locators and ...

Cooper previously served as the animation director for Assassin's Creed 3; prior to that, he worked as the lead animator for titles such as Mass Effect 2 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.