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…
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…
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?