Tencent Visvise AI: Redefining Game Graphics
- At Gamescom 2025, Tencent Games unveiled Visvise, a groundbreaking end-to-end suite designed to dramatically accelerate game development through the power of artificial intelligence.
- traditionally, game character rigging and skinning can consume between one and 3.5 days per character, while skeletal animation typically requires three to seven days.
- Zijiao Zeng, a Visvise expert at Tencent Games, presented the technology behind this revolution at the concurrent devcom Game Developer Conference in Germany.
Visvise: Tencent’s AI suite Revolutionizing Game Development
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The Dawn of AI-Powered Game Creation
At Gamescom 2025, Tencent Games unveiled Visvise, a groundbreaking end-to-end suite designed to dramatically accelerate game development through the power of artificial intelligence. This comprehensive toolkit, encompassing animation, modeling, clever NPC creation, and digital asset management, promises to reshape how games are built, offering developers an unprecedented level of efficiency and creative freedom.
From Days to Seconds: A Dramatic Shift in Workflow
traditionally, game character rigging and skinning can consume between one and 3.5 days per character, while skeletal animation typically requires three to seven days. Visvise shatters these timelines, reducing these processes to a mere 10 seconds. This represents an eight-fold increase in throughput for character skinning, effectively automating animation through a process of “keyframe generation + intelligent in-betweening.” The implications for studio productivity are enormous.
| Process | Conventional Timeframe | Visvise Timeframe |
|---|---|---|
| Rigging & Skinning (per character) | 1-3.5 days | 10 seconds |
| Skeletal Animation | 3-7 days | 10 seconds |
Core Technologies: Goskinning and Motionblink
Zijiao Zeng, a Visvise expert at Tencent Games, presented the technology behind this revolution at the concurrent devcom Game Developer Conference in Germany. The core of Visvise lies in two key technologies: Visvise Goskinning and Visvise Motionblink. goskinning utilizes a universal AI model to automatically adapt to diverse skeletal structures, achieving approximately 85% automation through a two-stage process of bone chain prediction and weight reinforcement.A proprietary “Skirt AI” component specifically addresses the complex challenges of clothing deformation.
Visvise Motionblink,integrated into the animation pipeline,employs a self-compression difference architecture to rapidly generate keyframes.Combined with a pre-trained CVAE and contrastive learning, it creates fluid movement transitions rivaling optical motion capture, while eliminating common issues like foot slipping and jitter.
Industry Validation and real-World Impact
The impact of these AI-driven tools is already being felt. Goskinning reduces the time-consuming process of full-fit skinning to minutes, while Motionblink generates 10 seconds of animation in seconds. Visvise’s scientific foundation is robust, supported by over 20 peer-reviewed articles presented at conferences like Siggraph, and validated by experts at leading academic institutions.
Developers at Gamescom praised visvise’s plug-in architecture, which allows for seamless integration into existing pipelines without disrupting established workflows. This compatibility is a key factor driving adoption. Visvise tools are currently being utilized in popular titles such as PUBG Mobile and Wuthering Waves, and Goskinning has already been implemented in the development of over 90 games.
A Legacy of Innovation
Visvise represents the culmination of over 20 years of Tencent’s experience in game development, distilled into a production-ready pipeline. as these AI tools are gradually introduced to studios worldwide, developers will gain access to a powerful framework for fostering creative innovation and accelerating the game development process.
