AI-driven animations will make your digital avatars come to life

Take basketball games like the NBA2K franchise, for example. Prior to 2010, the on-screen players — be it Shaq, LeBron, KD or Curry — were all modeled on regular-sized people wearing motion-capture suits. “There was a time when NBA2K was made entirely of animators and producers,” 2K’s Anthony Tominia told the Evening Standard in 2016. …