Unity Wētā Tools has announced their newest tools to help artists work more efficiently on digital character creation and in film production.

Phase-Functioned Neural Networks for Character Control is a fundamentally new way of handling character animation that will be presented at the ACM's upcoming SIGGRAPH conference this summer.

Cooper previously served as the animation director for Assassin's Creed 3; prior to that, he worked as the lead animator for titles such as Mass Effect 2 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.