Boulder, CO - December 20, 2001 - Today Electric Rain, Inc.® announced the release of a plug-in version of their popular Swift 3D standalone product that offers SOFTIMAGE|XSI users the power to render 3D scenes directly from SOFTIMAGE|XSI to a variety of vector-based file formats, including Macromedia® Flash™ (SWF), AI, EPS, and the latest XML-based Web standard, SVG.
"The RAViX™ II rendering engine at the heart of our entire Swift 3D product line was a perfect fit for SOFTIMAGE|XSI," commented Mike Soucie, President of Electric Rain, Inc. "Softimage is a best-of-breed 3D authoring application, and our vector rendering technology is the industry-leading 3D-to-vector solution. It made perfect sense to work closely with Softimage to produce a plug-in offering XSI users the flexibility to publish their 3D content to a wider variety of formats."

Swift 3D XSI is built around Electric Rain's proprietary rendering technology, RAViX II, which converts 3D scenes into vector-based 2D files. The most recent version that powers Swift 3D XSI touts significant improvements in both rendering speed and file size optimization over the first generation RAViX.

Swift 3D XSI supports an extensive array of rendering options including 3 levels of outlines, 5 levels of cartoon shading, 2 levels of gradient shading, plus shadows, specular highlights, and a preview window allowing users to see the results of each rendered frame.

"Our XSI users asked for more Web format support, and Softimage responded," said Michael Sheasby, director of Internet business development for Softimage. "Development of this plug-in means SOFTIMAGE|XSI animators and artists will be able to deliver their content to a wider variety of media, most notably the Flash standard, and put more high-quality animation to use on the Web. We are happy to partner with Electric Rain to produce this key feature, as we found Electric Rain's RAViX™ II technology to be highly precise and reliable in the rendering of 3D content to vector formats."

Swift 3D XSI is available immediately on the Windows platform and is compatible with SOFTIMAGE|XSI versions 1.53 and above. The SRP for Swift 3D XSI is $475.00 USD, and is currently available from the Electric Rain website at www.erain.com. For more information on Swift 3D XSI or RAViX II vector rendering technology, please call Electric Rain at 1-888-613-1500.

About Electric Rain, Inc.
Electric Rain, Inc. 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 stand-alone application, Swift 3D v1.0, and the company's proprietary RAViX rendering technology, Electric Rain has quickly become the industry leading developer and supplier of 3D to vector solutions. The company is located at the base of the Flatirons in Boulder, Colorado. More information about Electric Rain and its products and technologies is available at www.erain.com.

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For More Information Contact:
Ed Wunsch - Electric Rain, Inc.
P (303) 543-8233
F (303) 543-8225
E ewunsch@erain.com