Animation
Animation generation is more common than one might think. Have you ever played a game where an NPC turned to look in your direction? This is a procedurally generated animation.
Mr. I in Mario 64, changing the direction it looks in toward Mario
These types of animations are more intuitively created procedurally. A similar example is an NPC moving towards you as you fled. The NPC would have to procedurally generate the path and animate its position through it. This is only a partial animation, though, as we would still have to animate the walk or run animation as well. The walk/run animation would be much harder to generate procedurally so ...
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