EMotion FX 3, Next Generation character animation SDK, to be available on March 20th 2006

News by GamesIndustry International Contributor

Published on March 8, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, MARCH 8, 2006. Mystic Game Development, the market leader in realtime character animation middleware, today announced that it has been developing EMotion FX 3, a new next generation multi-processor character animation SDK for the last 18 months. EMotion FX 3 will be commercially available on March 20th..

"EMotion FX 3 is a major new product for us and is the result of our recent development efforts" said John van der Burg, Mystic Game Development's founder and Development Director. He went on to say "The EMotion FX product has been meeting the character animation needs of game developers since 2001. Our clients are driving the changes that we make to the EMotion FX product range. They wanted next generation performance and memory efficiency as well as clear focus on reducing the artist effort required to delivering high quality next-gen character content in their games. EMotion FX 3 delivers this and more."

EMotion FX 3 features include:

Realtime motion retargeting

Tight integration with 3D Studio Max and Maya using new and improved plugins

Multi-processor and Multi-core support

Multi platform support

All the motion blending features you can imagine

Facial animation and high quality automatic lipsync generation

Advanced Inverse Kinematics and Lookat controllers

A powerful motion event / trigger system

Easy character customization down to per-bone level

Over 50 API programming examples

Very detailed tutorial style documentation as well an API reference

About Mystic Game Development

EMotion FX 3 is a next generation product built by Mystic Game Development based on our experience of realtime character animation over the last 5 years. It offers leading edge functionality and performance, and plugs in to the art production line and rendering engines of developers in a powerful and flexible way. Founded in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in 1999, Mystic Game Development is a provider of game focused technology used by leading game developers such as Mythic Entertainment, Gravity Corporation, Sigil Games Online, Webzen, SimBin, Nexon Corporation, IMC Games, AvalonSoft, Piranha Bytes, EGN Co., and DragonFly GF Co.. www.emotionfx.com.

Evaluations can be requested online at http://www.mysticgd.com/site/evaluationform.php

Further Information, please contact:

Mystic Game Development

www.mysticgd.com

pr@mysticgd.com

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