Looking forward to it 🤩

I think AI might make people realize that art is about the human connection. AI can't capture a feeling, it can only mimic someone who did. In the future we're probably gonna see tons of movies, games, and TV shows with AI in them, but the ones made by the skilled artists will stand out above the rest.

From my animator's point of view, the best way to use AI is only as a quality-of-life tool, not a crucial decision tool. AI may help with rigging and other technical stuff which is needed but...arduous (?) I would say. It would we awesome to optimize as well, in general, any stuff that is disturbing for the animator to let him 100% focus on animations. In my opinion, any tries to replace an animatorwithy an AI will fall because it's not a case of the industrial revolution where many basic stuff were totally replaced by machines. I would see AI rather as a quality of life changer.

All this generic AI is the same. Soft, uncanny, lack of any direction, doesn't have any dynamic also has this wet look to it and feels like everything is made of some jelly. My friend send me some AI generated stuff to the music and honestly it was bad because you could literally do the same thing but with real life footage downloaded from YT or any other site. AI will get better and better in terms of quality look but we all know that's now how things are made. My biggest problem with AI is that it intention is to cut people for profit of those who make all the money and CREATE NOTHING. Irony is that AI could easily replace CEO and other c-level people saving most money on their salaries and stupid decision.

I think AI can help with some technical details like rigging. But I don't like when people use AI instead of imagination. It just shows lack of respect to the audience and lack of respect to art itself (especially if the companies push employees to use AI, because "it's an industry standard now").

AI is evolving fast, and tools like Sora AI, Deepseek, and ChatGPT are pushing the boundaries of animation. But does AI-generated animation capture the soul of human creativity, or are we losing something in the process? What do YOU think? Is AI a tool for animators or a threat to artistry? Drop your thoughts below! Also, have you seen Coca-Cola’s AI Christmas ad? Did it feel magical or… off? 🎅🏽Let’s discuss!

Where can I find this kit for 75 TV ?

What you shown is not the first God of war. First God of war came out in 2005 on PS2.

At first I thought the 'he' you were talking about was the lead Animator, cuz that's very often the experience as a professional. You show blocking, your lead approves and you're excited, but by the end your lead has given it so many notes and redirects (thru the normal process of a films evolution/director changing their minds) that you think they hate your shot and you feel beaten down. But that's totally normal and the longer you're in the industry you take it less and less personally

Couldn't agree more, my hot take is that shile Elden Ring is such an amazing game, it could definitely use more polished animation mechanics and game olay to make it much more interactive ❤, hopefully I can make it to your workshop :)

Based out of Sacramento. Considering your course

What if you are using an optical cable to pass your audio for an older sound system. Does this still work or affect how you would run your sound?

There are some cool ideas here, and I'm a fan of visual planning in general. For your plan and app of choice here, I feel like there's some real benefits to it. Not only could such a polished and themed planning space be inspiring and energizing, and kind of "keep your head in the game" with a more immersive experience - I think there is probably a "practice how you play" benefit, where having such a professional and organized planning space should lead to professionally planned and organized games. You know what I mean? Like, if everything is jotted out on a whiteboard in whoever's handwriting, then it's a bigger leap to turn that into a themed game. But if it's already laid out like a game UI or a game marketing website, then it's more like you're halfway there. (Well, I've used my two sports metaphors for the year. I hope it helped people 😂)

Usually I enjoy your content, but every minute of this video feels like it was specifically designed to sell the sponsor. It wasn't real actionable advice about starting a studio, it was a walk through of a template in the sponsor app. You started the video talking about how important it was to pay attention to things other than just the game-making when starting a studio, but the entire video you go over things related to creating the game. If this channel is going to become just big sponsored ads disguised as industry advice, I don't think I'll be watching anymore.

Hopefully we can get an update for Proxima Studio soon Harvey ! cheers

Hey Harvey, I recently made the jump from indie to AAA as a UI designer, and your AAA vs indie games video really resonated with me. I wasn’t expecting much beyond the usual takes, but you broke it down in such a genuine way that it made me feel less alone. Transitioning from being a big contributor in indie to feeling like 'just a cog in the system' has been a tough adjustment as a creative. Your content has been a huge help, and I’m really looking forward to your indie studio kickstart video!

I want to know more on your process gathering info from books and knowledge in general, it sounds veery interesting!, thanks for sharing!!

dope, when's that game launching?

ITS CALLED WORK LIFE BALANCE N IT IS VERY IMPORTANT

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Hey !! A bit late , but i am an aspiring student , yet to enter college (which would be in about a few months) I've been researching and learning about the process of becoming a professional game designer (environmental and lighting artist to be exact) and a 3D animator. Im collecting data on it since 3 years now. While I've come to know that there's no specific way of entering this field , nor any specific education. I was planning to move abroad and get a bachelor's degree while learning on my own. Does it sound workable plan to you ? If yes which countries do you think would be the best in this day and age.

Hi from germany :)

Love a Kanban-based system; I been using Trello for nearly 15-years which Atlassian owns as well. Good stuff!!

Thanks so much, I need your help! LOL 😂 😂 I am very new to animation.

Miro board have become popular amongst game studios and producers. It’s very familiar to this post-it idea and I believe it can be tied to Jira tickets to a degree Confluence is the go to standard when it comes to written documentation, and some studios have webpage or server to host videos from bugs, new WIP features or milestone completion And how can we forget the legendary Perforce/ version control tool, where all the magic happen

What’s your go-to method for staying organized in game development? Do you prefer sticky notes, digital tools, or a mix of both? Let me know below!

I love MF DOOM and Nas covers in your background. I am making an action game using cascadeur, that video is great!

Hey , i really appreciate your youtube channel, you cleared up lot of my questions about pursuing animation. However, i have an important question . im still under 20 years old, as a kid i always dreamt of getting game characters to life and put countless hours e.g in games gmod etc, now that i have the very basic fundamentals of 3D and blender, including the principles of animations, i want to know if a gameplay animator rather use maya or blender in indie up to AAA studios..? Ive been really split up between maya or blender to start honing my animation skills, since i can get maya for 3 years completely free (student license). Also i found out that tutorials on game animations specifically are not alot at all, especially beginner ones that explain them.

I picked story games over multiple player games.

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Damn! IMPRESSIVE! We all stuck with Maya, Blender and Max and I feel like I was living inside a cave now. This is EXACTLY how the Ai should have helping us! You have tried it with raw mocap you said? Can it autoclean to a certain point the data? eg. can it autoclean more or less the 90% of it? Or in a multi-charater scene with interaction can it make that impressive interaction cleaning that my jaw dropped when you mentioned it? I haven't tried Maya2025 yet. Do you believe that it is worth our time to invest on learning Cascadeur? because after all is an investment.. Or soon enough this tech will come to maya or Unreal animation?

I have been working with Ragdoll systems for many years I still run the old Endorphin software from natural motion. and process the ragdoll simulation through reallusion iclone before sending it to Blender or Maya and there is also a free open sourced, Python 3 based ragdoll engine for the vestigial Poser . I also have and older version of Cascadeur (2023) before they started charging money for FBX export and added the ragdoll collission physics All of them use their own internal constraints system for things like hanging from moving helicopters etc however such constraints and even Rigid Ik solving can not be “exported” but only baked to FK in an FBX or USD/Alembic export back to your rendering 3DCC USD/Alembic is limited because you have no IK rig for further layered editing. So you need to employ the local constraint & collision physics system in your 3DCC for solid hand gripping or be using Live link with Maya but will have problems if you need to interact with a complex scene environments in maya that you cannot replicate inside Cascadeur. and this does not even address things like have a Character dressed in loose clothing Maya and needing his Ncloth or Xgen hair interacting with complex scene elements inside Maya that you cannot replicate anticipate in cascadeur My point here is that stand alone external, Character animation solutions with no useful render engines are sometime more work than creating the animating entirely inside your final rendering 3DCC .

Cool 😎 stuff chap. I remember being one of the earliest testers of Cas so it cool seeing how far it come from

I want to know how we use it for Our own rig.

Thanks for tuning in! Have questions about Cascadeur or AI animation? Drop them below and I’ll do my best to answer. Also, let me know what you’d like to see next-your feedback helps shape future videos

What about an update on this now since we’ve had a bunch of ai animated commercials during Christmas. The coke commercials was waaaay more than just having movement interpolated between poses

Heyya!! When are you announcing the winners? Excited to see who are the lucky guys/gals who won.

I can confirm that 4:3 content is NOT utilizing the side LED's so you have only verticals on your disposal. It picks up an image after the black bar but the black bar can't be more than a few inches wide for it to work properly.

Thanks for sharing, Character animation crash course is a very underrated book in comparison to Animators survivors kit imo. Also you mentioned this book a while ago, but I read: The creative act by Rick Rubin, and I was fascinated with his approach to making art!

Happy new year to all! Let's see how this one with unravel. Well I hear for too many devs nowadays that the best gift the game industry can give us and to the game Industry itself is remote working. I mean we are leaving in 2025 right? Anyone can work efficient enough from everywhere. Not only this but but companies will have access to super talented people from all over the world. I bet this will make our lives easier + it will gave to our Industry a huge boost. What do you think?

Let’s kick off 2025 with some game-changing reads! What books inspired you last year, or are you excited to read this year? Drop your picks below-I’d love to hear them! 👇

Hey bro where are you from . Interesting accent

Ive been lookin at this brand for a while, does it connect to a sky box etc

Hi Harvey, any plans for an "Unreal for game animators" release?

Lack of emotional impact is why so many movies and books fall flat. And writing it isn't exactly cut and dried. Here because I'm looking for the best MOCAP solution for capturing emotional nuance in facial expression without buying an iPhone or dropping 10K$ on a suit. I never considered it a factor for gaming, but I think you're spot on.

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Graduated 2 years ago and cant get in the industry.. feel so lost in life.. 3d environment artist 😔