New York, New York – July 25, 2000 – Today, at Flashforward2000 - New York City, Electric Rain, Inc.® unveiled its newest version of their 3D vector graphics tool, Swift 3D™ for the Macintosh®. After their April 2000 release of Swift 3D v1.0 for Windows®, the demand was huge for a Macintosh version, and Electric Rain has responded.

"Mac users are a very vocal crowd," commented Mike Soucie, President of Electric Rain, "and they let it be known that the Macintosh community needed a 3D vector tool. Electric Rain felt the urgency to deliver a Mac version of Swift 3D since there is no other solution available. We allocated all of our development resources to the project, and are excited to announce a September 15th, 2000 release."

This morning, Soucie demonstrated Swift 3D on the Macintosh platform to an eager flashforward2000 audience. The sneak-preview of Swift 3D Mac was a much anticipated part of the ‘New Tools‘ session at flashforward2000. This one-hour program highlighted innovative design tools that complement popular vector graphic authoring applications such as Macromedia® Flash™ and Adobe® LiveMotion™ software.

"Flashforward2000 attracts individuals and artists who are passionate about what they do," Soucie exclaimed after the session, "and Electric Rain is just as passionate about creating and delivering innovative tools for the Flash community. Swift 3D Mac is yet another vehicle for this creative industry to express themselves."

Information about the Macintosh and Windows versions of Swift 3D can be found at www.swift3d.com, including screen captures of the software running on a Mac. The retail price for both platforms is $139.00 USD. Both the download and the boxed CD version come with full documentation and some value-added goodies like free sound clips and 3D models. For more information please call Electric Rain at 1-888-613-1500.

About Swift 3D
Swift 3D is the first vector graphics software of its kind enabling designers to quickly create 3D content for use with popular vector authoring tools such as Macromedia Flash and Adobe LiveMotion. Swift 3D is not just a file and model converter; it’s an intuitive 3D application for creating, editing and animating 3D images. These images can be created from fonts and basic 3D primitives within Swift 3D, or imported from other popular applications like 3D Studio™ (3DS), Adobe® Illustrator® (AI) or any program that exports Encapsulated PostScript™ files (EPS).

Swift 3D allows extensive control over the extrusion, rotation, coloring and animation of 3D images. Pre-built drag and drop animations and powerful keyframe animation enable users to easily apply motion to new or imported images. These images are then converted into a vector file format (SWF, Sequential EPS or AI) and exported in a variety of styles including outlines, meshes, flat shading, average shading and gradient shading - giving users control over image quality and file size.