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 Kaydara Announces Alias' Support for FBX Posted by: amigo
Source: Press Release
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003
Montreal, QC - Jul. 22, 2003 - Kaydara Inc., a leader in 3D character animation and motion capture technologies, today announced the support of Alias for the Kaydara FBX authoring file format. A free Kaydara FBX-Maya(r) plug-in, which provides Maya software users with a seamless pathway for the acquisition and exchange of 3D data, will be bundled on the Maya CD and posted on the Kaydara and Alias Web sites. This free FBX-Maya plug-in enables visual effects and animation artists to access a wealth of content through Kaydara's extensive network of FBX applications.
"The FBX architecture ensures the highest standard for 3D content interchange," says Rob Hoffmann, senior Maya manager. "The availability of the FBX-Maya plug-in will significantly benefit Maya users by giving them access to the wealth of content available online and ensures a clear pipeline for exchanging content."
Kaydara's FBX is the most utilized 3D file interchange format for content creators wishing to acquire, author, and re-purpose 3D and mixed-media data. FBX is widely supported by 3D content and streaming media vendors.
"Maya is one of the industry's most widely used animation packages and an essential addition to the FBX community," said Jean-Jacques Hermans, vice-president of marketing and business development for Kaydara. "The FBX-Maya plug-in will provide Maya users with an important pipeline for sharing data and quickly re-targeting legacy content saving valuable time and streamlining the production process."
Kaydara FBX is a powerful platform-independent 3D authoring and interchange format that provides access to 3D content from a wide variety of applications and source material providers. FBX is a binary file format that supports all the major 3D data, as well as 2D, audio, and video media elements, and allows users to maximize their content creation pipeline by letting them create cutting edge content without having to worry about inter-package compatibility. Used for over five years in production studios worldwide, FBX has proven itself a versatile, accurate, and dependable authoring and data transfer format. For more information about Kaydara FBX, visit www.kaydara.com/fbx .
Pricing and Availability
Kaydara FBX-XSI plug-in is free and available today through Kaydara's Web site, www.kaydara.com/fbx , and Alias' Web site, www.alias.com . Alias will also bundle the FBX-Maya plug-in directly on future Maya CDs.
About Kaydara Inc.
Over the course of the past decade, Kaydara has become a leader in the development of real-time 3D animation software solutions for the entertainment industry. Kaydara's product portfolio serves a vast and varied range of clients in the television, film, game development, and Web content industries, including Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Midway Games, Acclaim, Mainframe Entertainment, Capcom, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Kaydara is headquartered in Montr�al, Canada, and has an international presence with sales offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information about Kaydara or its products, visit www.kaydara.com.
About Alias
As the world's leading innovator of 3D graphics technology, Alias develops software for the film and video, games, web, interactive media, industrial design, and visualization markets. In 2003, the company was awarded an Oscar(r) 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 is a wholly owned, independent software company of SGI(r) with headquarters in Toronto and a custom development center in Santa Barbara. Please visit the Alias web site at http://www.alias.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; Italy, 39 039 6340011; Japan and other parts of Asia Pacific, 81 3 5797 3500 and Latin America, 770 393 1881.
Related Links: Kaydara Inc. website
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