Dynamic Goal Based Animation App?

Downsizer

I remember a while ago comming across an application that used goal oriented dynamic animation for bipedal human characters. There was AI involved that allowed the characters to react to impact forces/gravity etc. Anyone remember the site or name of the animation application?

Some of the demonstrations were exceptionally amazing, they laid a character out flat, and simple gave it the goal of standing, and after 10-20 AI cycles it had a stand up animation comparable to mocap.

Rick Stirling

Endorphin from Natural Motion?

Downsizer

Bingo. Cheers.

Twice my budget for animation assests...sigh...

Asthane

Cool little app. If money was no object, I could almost see using it just for the easy dynamics. Would it look bad on a reel, I wonder, since it's not exactly 'done by hand', even if there's plenty of posing and tweaking going on?

Downsizer

I'll be damned, they have just released a 'Learning Edition'

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=359522

http://www.naturalmotion.com/pages/le.htm

Saves in proprietary format and only exports to avi files. But one could animate in this, export an avi and match frame by frame if you really wanted. I think...