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Caligari Announces trueSpace for Illustrators
Posted by: amigo
Source: Press Release
 Date: Wed May 05 2004
Mountain View, CA - May 5, 2004 - Special Version of Caligari's Award-Winning Software Helps Professional Illustrators Introduce 3D Content to their Workflow
Caligari Corporation, a pioneer provider of 3D multimedia authoring software, today announced trueSpace for Illustrators. Built on the trueSpace6.6 platform, trueSpace for Illustrators is aimed at helping professional illustrators, product designers and artists more easily add 3D content to their creative workflow.

Designed to help illustrators cross the chasm between 2D and 3D, trueSpace for Illustrators features new multilayer import/export to Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator, and a toon shader for cel, toon and non-photorealistic rendering. Full modeling, texturing, rendering and animation capability is included along with export and model conversion to a wide range of illustration formats. Six "how to" video courses on designing with 3D and integrating it into an existing 2D workflow are bundled with the product.

"trueSpace for illustrators is a product designed by artists for artists," said Roman Ormandy, president and founder of Caligari. "We are making it easy and affordable for illustrators and designers to experiment with 3D and experience firsthand the benefits of faster turnaround, easier modification and multiple viewpoints."

"trueSpace gives me 'no surprises, no regrets' design," said Chris Labriola, artist for Peterson Strobe Tuners. "I have the benefit of creating a model once and then reusing it, re-lighting it, or modifying it as I need to with a few clicks of the mouse."

Direct support for Photoshop PSD enables the rendering of a scene into separate layers or channels, including shadow, transparency, reflection, depth and other layers, providing great flexibility and speed in compositing images or tweaking effects. Included conversion functionality allows the use of AI, DWG, DXF, IGES, SAT and STL formats popular with designers, architects, and product illustrators. Support for other common 3D formats is also included, as is export to Shockwave and Viewpoint formats.

Existing trueSpace users can purchase the Photoshop multilayer support and "how to" video on multilayer rendering through iPak, a plug-in available from Caligari.

Pricing and Availability

trueSpace for illustrators is available immediately for $795. iPak is available for $199. For more information about upgrade pricing and ordering trueSpace for Illustrators or iPak, contact Caligari by telephone at 800-351-7620 or 650-390-9600, or visit the website at http://www.caligari.com/tsillustrator/illustrator_home.html.

About Caligari Corporation

Caligari Corporation was founded in 1986 and has remained at the forefront of 3D authoring for the Web age. The company's award-winning flagship product, trueSpace, is a 3D modeling and animation program used by product designers, web designers, illustrators and animators worldwide (according to the latest Roncarelli Report, trueSpace was named as #1 in licenses and the world's most widely used 3D application). Caligari iSpace is a 3D web graphics and animation program that allows web developers to create stunning 3D web pages in HTML and Macromedia Flash format. The company maintains headquarters at 1959 Landings Drive, Mountain View, California, 94043. Contact Caligari by phone at 800-351-7620 or 650-390-9600; by fax at 650-390-9755.

Caligari, Caligari trueSpace, and Caligari iSpace are trademarks of Caligari Corporation.


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