I have been a big fan of NaturalMotion and their animation technology ever since rumor’s surfaced about the company’s possible involvement with 2K Sports on their All Pro Football title. Those rumors proved to be untrue, but Natrual Motion’s products have since been used in many well known games such as Star Wars: Force Unleashed and Grand Theft Auto IV.

The latest version of their Morpheme platform, to be shown at the NVISION 08 convention in San Jose, boasts several enhancements that should prove beneficial to animators.

In addition to Morpheme, the puffy blue football tackle animations we once assumed were part of a top secret Madden or All Pro Football integration, proved to be early footage of NaturalMotion’s own American Football game titled “BackBreaker”.

I had a chance to talk with NaturalMotion representatives briefly regarding the game at GDC a few months ago, but to the best of my knowledge, NVISION 08 (taking place between August 25-27) will mark the first time the game will be shown in public.

The full press release is available after the jump. Read more…

…and we would like to know what the fans of our site, the product, and fans of video games in general would like to know. So submit your questions in the form of a comment below and we will take them into consideration.

For those that are not familiar with the ground breaking technology that NaturalMotion has created, then we suggest you visit their official website at www.naturalmotion.com.

Get those questions in, the deadline is June 5th!

Update: 6/8/07 - 12:48PM EST
We received word from our contact at NaturalMotion that all interviews are being postponed at the moment as they “are unable to discuss any Euphoria related inquiries”. They added that they are still looking forward to the opportunity to discuss the products with us in the near future. We appreciate all the email responses we received and would like to let everyone know that their questions will still be considered for any future interview with NaturalMotion. Stay tuned.

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NaturalMotion, the creators of breakthrough Dynamic Motion Synthesis (DMS) 3D character animation products such as Endorphin, Euphoria, and Morpheme, announced a partnership in February of 2006 with Rockstar games, best known for the Grand Theft Auto Series.

Take 2 Games is the parent company of both Rockstar and the 2kSports label. So what does all that mean? Well, in a recent interview regarding the application of NaturalMotion Read more…