NaturalMotion Ltd. announced the immediate availability of the endorphin 2.5 Student Edition. The endorphin Student Edition contains all the same powerful features found in the endorphin 2.5 commercial version, including fully enabled export functionality; however, it is only available to students and teachers and is not to be used for commercial production. A single license retails at $995 and is available for immediate purchase from NaturalMotions online store at www.naturalmotion.com.
"We introduced our free endorphin Learning Edition less than five months ago, and have had an overwhelming response with more than 17,000 registered users, said Richard Craig-McFeely, sales and marketing director for NaturalMotion. We have also been inundated with requests for a student and teacher edition. This response and our strong commitment to next-generation animators prompted us to create this student edition at an almost 90% discount. Furthermore, eligible customers can also benefit from a 17,000-strong user community.
endorphin is the only character animation software to utilize DMS, a technology based on artificial intelligence controllers that imitate the human nervous system. Unlike conventional animation techniques such as keyframing or motion capture, endorphins DMS technology uses the CPU to simulate the brain and body of 3D characters, which allows animators to synthesize human movements in realtime. Used by leading production and animation companies such as The Mill, Sony Computer Ent., Namco, Giant Killer Robots, CIS Hollywood and Moving Picture Co., this approach produces directed and fully-interactive 3D characters that essentially animate themselves with real-life movements that are unique every time; thus dramatically reducing animation asset production time.
Customers purchasing the endorphin Student Edition will receive a comprehensive electronic product manual and support via NaturalMotions endorphin forum. A commercial license of endorphin retails at $9,495 and is available through NaturalMotion and its reseller network.
NaturalMotion Ltd. (www.naturalmotion.com ) is the first company to create 3D character animation software (endorphin) based on Dynamic Motion Synthesis (DMS), a technology that utilizes Adaptive Behaviors and artificial intelligence to simulate the human-nervous system. Based on Oxford University research on the control of body movements, endorphin synthesizes 3D characters in realtime.
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