Jonathan Cooper
@jonathan
Award-winning game developer. Animated Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, The Last of Us series and more. Wrote GAME ANIM: Video Game Animation Explained. Shipped Apple Vision Pro. gameanim.com
Classic 90s DMA Design business card found at my folks’ place - from when I was invited up for my pixel animations as a high school kid. I met up with Oz again decades later when on Deus Ex in Montreal as he worked at the studio next door.
Bran Castle - Bram Stoker’s inspiration for Dracula’s castle (though Vlad the Impaler never set foot there IRL) 🧛
Awesome new arrival from @paddysbooks.bsky.social - The Guyver is a hugely underrated series IMO.
Nice - never seen that. Was drawn to this alley in Bucharest last week.
Had never watched the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies before this week (due to reputation) and they’re… good actually? Enjoyably campy fan service when too many game movies stray too far from source. Just great early-2000s period pieces alongside her seminal Hackers.
Great evening with @liamwong.com seeing the Deakins. Inspirational couple.
New whisky accoutrements and a Lagavulin 16 before a day building a new raised bed - doesn’t get more Fathers’ Day than this.
"A copy of Grant Theft Auto, where he could play a criminal" is actually really funny www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FUB...
Went to the Highland Games at the weekend there - incase you needed any kilt reference
Apple's Persona team continuing to do amazing work with face capture and animation. New paper released ahead of WWDC26 apple.github.io/ml-headsup/
Can't believe it's been 10 years since the release of Uncharted 4! Here's an excerpt from my 2017 Animation Exchange talk on creating the chase sequence.
Wow, can't believe Koizumi gave us all his FACS data like that for free...
Scoped out Andor’s imperial garrison (Cruachan Dam on Hollow Mountain).
Another great @gamestalkslive.bsky.social last night in Edinburgh. Gonna have to get out to Portugal for this ZX Spectrum museum.
Released 30 years ago today! Bio Hazard / Resident Evil gameplay mocap and live-action behind-the-scenes. From the Birth of Bio Hazard VHS
Love this all-weather stainless steel controller setup from an outdoor video game installation
Art-wise you can’t beat just making a big fucking spider. I saw Bourgeois’ biggest, “Maman” when it opened in the Tate Modern at the turn of the millennium, and again recently when they were assembling it for its return.