SAN FRANCISCO and OXFORD, England, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- NaturalMotion, the animation technology and game development studio behind the euphoria engine, will be attending both GDC Europe and gamescom in Cologne, Germany from Tuesday 18(th) - Friday 21(st) August 2009.

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NaturalMotion's CTO Simon Mack will be presenting two 50 minute sessions in GDC Europe's programming track. Through a practical demonstration of the newly released morpheme 2.2, the session will look at how runtime character animation is authored in morpheme and how the same tools are used to integrate character physics techniques with traditional animation. The session is targeted at all levels of experience.

Authoring Runtime Animation and Character Physics with Morpheme

August 18, 2009 - 9:00am to 9:50am

August 19, 2009 - 10:10am to 11:00am

Location - Congress-Saal 3, 4th Level

NaturalMotion will also be in attendance at gamescom 2009 and would be happy to meet with game developers and publishers of all platforms, as well as technology and games industry press that are interested in how NaturalMotion's technologies bring game characters to life. Interested game developers and publishers should contact NaturalMotion by email at Email Contact to arrange a meeting. Press enquiries should be sent to Email Contact.

About NaturalMotion

NaturalMotion Ltd. is a leading entertainment software company with offices in Oxford (England) and San Francisco (California). The company produces the widely-adopted animation technologies euphoria, morpheme and endorphin, used across the game and movie industries by companies such as Rockstar Games, LucasArts, Disney, Bioware and many others. Backbreaker, the company's first in-house game is currently in production.

For further information please contact Rob Donald, PR & Marketing Manager at NaturalMotion on +44 (0)1865 250 575 or visit www.naturalmotion.com.

SOURCE NaturalMotion Ltd.

Web site: http://www.naturalmotion.com/