Masahiro Sakurai covers animation blending in his latest dev video

Masahiro Sakurai is back with yet another installment in his game development video series, and this time the topic of the day is animation blending.

Imagine a technique that lets you smoothly transition between two distinct animations. What does that even look like? Sakurai is here to show off that very idea in today’s development video, and it’ll no doubt be helpful to budding developers.

This animation method relies on technology to pick up the slack where manual animation alone won’t cut it. Once you know the ins and outs of how it works, it can make your work look that much better and save you an incredible amount of time.