Have a look at a system developed by a research team from Ubisoft in France and Concordia University in the United States, The team developed a deep learning model for in-game character animation that allows developers to automatically generate natural character animation reducing time costs.
Motion Matching involves a simple yet powerful way of animating characters in games. "Compared to other methods, it doesn’t require very much manual work once you have a basic set-up: there is no need to structure clips in graphs, to carefully cut or synchronize them, or to explicitly create new transitions between states," noted the team.
