Use a random character

(Laughter)

(Audience Well, first an observation, which is that you look like a character.)

It's nothing we had to do about this.

Can we do that ourselves as well?

What people wanted as a behavior was to have an explosion, a strong force applied to the character, and have the character react to it in midair.

And you can see he looks always the same.

(Laughter)

It's a very simple behavior that shows you the power of this approach.

CG Designer Shintaro Tajima

You know, it's just a character thing I'm stuck on.

And this is Felix, actually.

(Laughter)

It's not something you want to put on your Facebook page, right? My characters are my lead character's a shark named Sherman.

Like, what if one could be anyone at any time?

Now, before I talk more about that technology,

With this technology, video games will look different and they will feel very different.

Its your old pal Krusty!

I kind of give my turtle hands just to make them an easier cartoon character to work with.

So here, Nathan has changed the letter A to the number 2.

So with characters, you can make stories.

And there is billions of dollars being spent on that.

So simply portraying her in this form as a puppet, on this scale,

I gave you my version of the story.

They were both big fans, mother and daughter very unusual.

And always as a child I had this fantasy that somebody would come and rescue me.

There's another one.

Anyway, finally settled on kind of this kind of a look,

So, this was not something we actually put in there.

In this clip I'm about to show you, which has never been seen in the public before, there is a struggle.

And I wanted this guy to be involved in my crazy project, and he was kind enough to lend his image to the character of Eugène Spaak, who is a cosmologist and artist who seeks relation in between time, space, love, music and women.

I draw my circle of chalk on the pavement and enter as the improvising comic silent character

Why? The feedback was really good.

HTML5 Canvas for the rendering engine

He'd gone and stapled two cards, very like these, together, and put a sticker of his favorite character, Tintin, on the front.

A 2D game where funny characters launch funny weapons

But it's easy to see why these animals make such great cartoon characters, their shapes and sizes.

BL OK, so we're going to emotionally navigate.

Good morning, Sir.

It was just voted, I think in the Sunday Times, as one of the most impressive stunts.

But here was this kid who loved Transformers and Snoopy and the Ninja Turtles, and the characters that I read about, I fell in love with, and they became my friends.

So by process of elimination, it's gonna be an arena game.

The bones and weights are something the person modeling decides, and the weights always add up to 1.

How to move you with your emotions, but also make your mind work.

And then, finally hits the floor.