{"id":62,"date":"2012-05-17T00:18:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T05:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2012-05-17T03:46:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T08:46:52","slug":"euphoria-endorphin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/euphoria-endorphin\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorphin? Euphoria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No I am not talking about the feelings or biological chemicals this time.. \u00a0In this case it is the company NaturalMotion and their software Euphoria and Endorphin! \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I remember watching the tech demo for Endorphin a while ago and thinking, WOW, this is some awesome shizz! \u00a0Since that time Rockstar games has implemented the video game version of the tech called Euphoria into a few of their games to great success. \u00a0Endorphin is designed for animating with 3D applications, and who knows how many movies have used it as well.<\/p>\n<p>What does it do? \u00a0This software blends the ultimate combo in AI controlling animation through behaviors. \u00a0Think of it as a sort of realistic physics based parametric animation system for characters that is controlled by an easy to configure artificial intelligence!<\/p>\n<p>If your an animator and you haven&#8217;t heard of this before it is really awesome and although it might be a bit pricey it could save you a ton of time for certain things, go ahead and check it out!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HauN98naZ9U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is a learning edition of Endorphin where you can mess around and use the software to punch some dummies with variable forces. \u00a0: )<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalmotion.com\/products\/endorphin-le\/\">http:\/\/www.naturalmotion.com\/products\/endorphin-le\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No I am not talking about the feelings or biological chemicals this time.. \u00a0In this case it is the company NaturalMotion and their software Euphoria and Endorphin! \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 I remember watching the tech demo for Endorphin a while ago &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/euphoria-endorphin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[487,27,15,14,13,25,16,23,20,18,8,9,19,24,17,21,22,12,11,10],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cgi","tag-3d","tag-3ds","tag-a-i","tag-ai","tag-animation","tag-animator","tag-artificial","tag-c4d","tag-cgi-2","tag-computer","tag-endorphin","tag-euphoria","tag-graphics","tag-houdini","tag-intelligence","tag-max","tag-maya","tag-motion","tag-natural","tag-naturalmotion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themindforest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}