post: GPU-driven crowd animation — 1000 agents at 60 FPS, zero CPU

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+    <a href="gpu-driven-crowd-animation" class="blog-card">
+      <span class="blog-card__date">15 June 2026</span>
+      <h2 class="blog-card__title">Zero-CPU Crowd Animation: How We Made 1,000 Animals Animate Without a Single Skeleton</h2>
+      <p class="blog-card__excerpt">We rebuilt our crowd renderer to be fully GPU-driven — bake every animation frame into a bone-matrix palette once, then let each instance compute its own pose in the vertex shader. 1,000 animals: 60 FPS. CPU: idle. This is how AAA does crowds, and now it runs in our Godot fork.</p>
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    <a href="gpu-skinned-herds" class="blog-card">
      <span class="blog-card__date">14 June 2026</span>
      <h2 class="blog-card__title">GPU-Skinned Herds: One Draw Call for 1,000 Animated Characters in Godot</h2>