Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as a concrete case of procedural animation that keeps characters responsive, often in threads about Overgrowth and game feel.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

GDC Festival of Gaming

Topic

procedural animation

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• > [VIDEO] David Rosen pulled off quite a few little masterpieces -- his gamedev competition entries always had fantastically unique aspects. I cannot believe "Black Shades" was almost 20 years ago! (I have no affiliation, but I am glad to see [LINK] is still alive …

• Here's a video I've enjoyed of David Rosen giving a presentation at Game Developers Conference 2014 going over procedural animation used in Overgrowth. [VIDEO]

• Not only that, but some of their approaches were immensely cool, they used procedural animations from just a few keyframes, have a look at this video that someone else linked a while back "Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation": [VIDEO]