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 Avid kick-offs the �SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool� Challenge Posted by: amigo
Source: DMN
Date: Tue Apr 05 2005
April 5, 2005 - Avid Technology, Inc. today announced the �SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool Lock & Load� Challenge. The challenge � sponsored in part by HP, NVIDIA and Gamedev.net � gives gamers the opportunity to win over $25,000US in prizes for developing �mods� - modified content for popular video games - using the SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool v4.2, the freely available version of the company's professional 3D animation software. Setting a new standard for gamers and modders alike, the SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool extends the life of popular games by giving users the power to produce their own characters, props and environments for export directly into a game. Current game engines supported by the Mod Tool include Source by Valve and Epic's Unreal Engine.
Judges will be looking for original, compelling characters created with the SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool and exported into supported games like Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Unreal Tournament 2004. Criteria will include visual excellence and quality of animation. Quality and efficiency of the geometry, texture maps and animations will be taken into consideration. Credit may be awarded for unusually creative or original character ideas, provided they work normally in multiplayer gaming scenarios.
The top three winners will receive an HP xw9300 Workstation with a professional license of SOFTIMAGE|XSI software. The HP xw9300 Workstation provides customers with the company's most powerful 64-bit personal workstation delivering advanced performance and visualization for compute intensive environments. Supporting, for the first time, dual PCI Express x16 graphics and dual AMD Opteron processors, the HP xw9300 meets the combined needs for computational and visualization power and I/O performance while helping to lower total cost of ownership.
Additional prizes will include NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 graphics cards, copies of XSI Foundation, Softimage training DVDs and books. The �SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool Lock & Load� Challenge begins today, and entries are due no later that 12am EST , July 1, 2005 . Judging will take place between July 11-22 and winners will be announced on stage during the Softimage User Group meeting held during SIGGRAPH 2005, and at www.softimage.com on Wednesday, August 3, 2005.
The panel of judges includes:
Carey Chico, Art Director, Pandemic Studios
Paul Marino , Executive Director, Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences
Garry Newman, Founder, Garry's Mod
James Rogers , Games Specialist, Softimage
Ben Sawyer, Founder, Digital Mill and Serious Games Summit
Mark Schoennagel , Sr Demo Artist, Softimage
Danny Scot, Content Manager, Planet Half-Life
Tommy Tallarico, Host/Writer/Producer, G4 � video game television
A multitude of online communities exist around the world made up of thousands of interactive game development enthusiasts � known as �modders� � who regularly use the software development kits provided by game developers to customize the games they play, and share their non-commercial versions with other players. Modders develop their own rules, characters, and environments to alter various games, and game developers are offering increased access to their material to support this community. Softimage has been predominant within the Mod Community since the release of the SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP for Half Life 2, and the follow-up version the SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool v4.2. Based on the professional architecture as SOFTIMAGE|XSI software, the Mod Tool includes multiple toolsets for creating, texturing and animating props and characters, designing and previewing real-time effects, and outputting the results.
For more information and official contest rules, please visit: www.softimage.com/challenge
The Mod Tool and add-ons are available for download at www.softimage.com/products/Mod/v42/downloads/
About SOFTIMAGE|XSI
SOFTIMAGE|XSI is a complete 3-D modeling and animation solution for film, broadcast, post and interactive entertainment industries. SOFTIMAGE|XSI software is the creative engine behind the Avid Computer Graphics toolset, and an integral player in Avid's Make, Manage and Move Media strategy. It is the industry's first 3D nonlinear production environment providing artists the freedom to make professional computer graphics, 3D animation, and visual effects � from major motion pictures to CG features and commercials, to video games. Softimage is proud to count amongst its customers: Ubisoft, Capcom, Konami, SONY , Valve, Pandemic Taito, Sega and Atari. For more information about SOFTIMAGE|XSI visit www.softimage.com. For more information about Avid, visit www.avid.com.
About Avid Technology, Inc .
Avid Technology, Inc. is the world leader in digital nonlinear media creation, management, and distribution solutions, enabling film, video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast professionals to work more efficiently, productively, and creatively.
For more information about the company's Oscar�, Grammy�, and Emmy� award-winning products and services, please visit: www.avid.com.
Contest Eligibility
No purchase is necessary to enter or win, and no obligation of any kind is implied. This contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law. The Contest is open to individuals who is at least eighteen (18) years of age or the recognized legal age of adulthood in their respective jurisdiction (when that age is higher than 18) and who are residents of the U.S., France, Germany, the United Kingdom, or Canada (except Quebec). Employees, representatives, agents, independent contractors, officers, and directors of Avid, its subsidiaries or affiliated companies, advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies, and the immediate family members and persons living in the same household of such persons, are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
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