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Electric Rain's Ravix III Rendering Technology to supply
Alias|WaveFront's Maya 5 with Flash Export |
Boulder, CO - April, 7th 2003 - Today
Electric Rain, Inc.® announced the signing of
an agreement to license their proprietary RAViX®
III vector and raster rendering technology to
Alias|WavefrontT, makers of Maya® , the world's
leading professional 3D animation and effects
software package. RAViX III will provide Maya
5 with the power to export to Macromedia® FlashT
(SWF), Adobe® Illustrator® (AI), EPS, and SVG.
"We're very excited to see our RAViX III
technology add functionality to a world-renown
3D software package like Maya 5," said Mike
Soucie, President of Electric Rain, Inc. "Maya
5 users will soon be able to broaden their publishing
horizons by repurposing their 3D content to the
Web-friendly Macromedia Flash SWF file format.
This union of Electric Rain's premier 3D-to-vector
technology and Maya's powerful modeling and animating
environment is going to solidify Maya's position
as a leading 3D authoring and publishing solution."
Integrated into Maya, RAViX III is the underlying
technology that drives the Maya 5 Vector Renderer,
enabling the program to render 3D Vector scenes
with complete accuracy, while staying true to
colors, lighting, camera views and animations.
RAViX III is the only 3D-to-vector technology
on the market that offers extensive export options
including realistic 3D Vector renderings through
gradient shading, shadows, reflections, transparency,
and advanced specular highlights; photo-realistic
Flash SWF raster output that supports bitmap textures;
and enhanced 3D-to-Flash workflow and editing
capabilities through Electric Rain's patent-pending
SmartLayerT technology that works in conjunction
with its proprietary Flash MX importer. RAViX
III is able to handle models containing well over
200,000 polygons and the resulting files are fully
optimized.
"The imaging potential with Maya 5's new Vector
Renderer provides more than just a wider range
of production possibilities for users," said Bob
Bennett, General Manager, Product Development,
Alias|Wavefront. "The seamless integration of
the RAViX III technology into Maya's new unified
rendering workflow makes a perfectly natural extension
for Maya customers."
The agreement with Alias|Wavefront marks the fourth
instance that the RAViX rendering technology has
been licensed by an industry-leading 3D company
for use within their own 3D products. The agreement
also moves Electric Rain closer to establishing
RAViX as the industry standard solution for creating
3D vector Flash files. Electric Rain has successfully
licensed RAViX to Corastar for use in Strata 3Dpro,
Eovia for creating VectorStyle (a plug-in for
Carrara Studio), and to Born Digital for the development
of a SOFTIMAGE|3D plug-in.
About Electric Rain®,
Inc, Electric Rain is a fast moving 3D and
multimedia software company with a vision of bringing
easy-to-use 3D and multimedia tools to the masses.
Through the release of its standalone application,
Swift 3D®, and the licensing of the company's
proprietary RAViX® 3D Vector Rendering Technology,
Electric Rain has quickly become the industry-leading
developer and supplier of 3D-to-vector Flash solutions.
More information about Electric Rain products
and licensing is available at http://www.erain.com
or by calling 1-888-613-1500.
About Alias|Wavefront As the world's leading innovator
of 3D graphics technology, Alias|Wavefront develops
software for the film and video, games, web, interactive
media, industrial design, and visualization markets.
On March 1, 2003, the company was awarded an Oscar®
for Technical Achievement from the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its development
of Maya software, its professional 3D animation
and effects package. Entertainment and games customers
include: Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., CNN, Core
Design Limited, Digital Domain, Disney, Electronic
Arts, Industrial Light & Magic, Factor 5 LLC,
Midway Games, Nintendo, Pacific Data Images (PDI),
Pixar, Sega, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Square
Co., Ltd., Warner Feature Animation and Weta Ltd.
Alias|Wavefront
is a wholly owned, independent software company
of SGI® with headquarters in Toronto and custom
development center in Santa Barbara. Please visit
the Alias|Wavefront web site at http://www.aliaswavefront.com
or call 1-800-447-2542 in North America.
International contact numbers include:
Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa, +44 (0)
1494 441273; Germany, East & Southeast Europe,
0049 89 31 70 20; France, Spain and Portugal,
+33 1 44 92 81 60; Japan,
0120 764 088; other parts of Asia Pacific, 81
3 3470 8282 and Latin America, 770 393 1881.
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For More Information Contact:
Carrie Cochrane - Electric Rain, Inc.
P (303) 543-8233
F (303) 543-8225
E ccochrane@erain.com
Alias|Wavefront is a trademark of Alias|Wavefront,
a division of Silicon Graphics Limited in the
United States and/or other countries worldwide.
Maya is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics,
Inc., exclusively used by Alias|Wavefront, a division
of Silicon Graphics Limited. SGI is a registered
trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. in the United
States and/or other countries worldwide. Oscar
is a trademark and service mark of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
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