It seems that with the ongoing AI boom, more and more AAA game developers are starting to utilize neural networks and artificial intelligence in their workflows, looking for ways to push the believability of their games to a whole new level. Just recently, a team of researchers from Ubisoft La Forge presented a new neural network capable of generating incredible gesture animations.
Titled ZeroEGGS, the framework only requires a speech prompt and a short example motion clip to generate lifelike full-body character gestures. According to the team, the network outperforms previous state-of-the-art techniques in the "naturalness of motion, appropriateness for speech, and style portrayal."
