SIGGRAPH 2005, the 32nd International Conference on
Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, takes place July 31 -
August 4, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
For in-depth information about the event, visit http://www.SIGGRAPH.org/s2005/main.php?f=media.
Below are profiles from SIGGRAPH 2005 exhibitors; breaking news releases and photos are available at http://www.tradeshownews.com, Business Wire's trade show, conference, and event news resource.
Business Wire is the official news wire service for SIGGRAPH 2005. -0- COMPANY: 3Dconnexion BOOTH/STAND: Booth # 2130 MEDIA CONTACT: Tanya Jeffers PHONE: 415-897-0999 E-MAIL: tanya_jeffers@3dconnexion.com WEB: http://www.3dconnexion.com 3Dconnexion, a Logitech company, designs, manufactures and markets an award winning line of advanced motion controllers. Designed to work together with a traditional mouse, the motion controllers deliver a unique and powerful two-handed work style to the professional software market. Users can pan, zoom and rotate with a motion controller in one hand while simultaneously create, edit or annotate with a mouse in the other. COMPANY: Academy of Art University, San Francisco BOOTH/STAND: 1334 MEDIA CONTACT: Tod Brilliant PHONE: 707-235-1026 E-MAIL: tod@sonic.net WEB: www.academyart.edu Founded by artists for artists, the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, is the nation's largest private art and design school. Offering accredited AA, BFA and MFA degrees, the Academy invest heavily to provide world-class facilities, ensuring students the technical edge upon which their success depends. Classes are taught by top industry professionals whose connections and high standards result in 80% of students working for art and design companies like Disney, EA Games and LucasFilm. Courses in 3D Modeling, Animation, Computer Illustration, Digital Imaging, Digital Photography, Game Design, Motion Graphics, Motion Pictures & Television, Visual Effects, Web Design and more. COMPANY: A K Peters, Ltd. BOOTH/STAND: 1110 MEDIA CONTACT: Susannah Sieper IR CONTACT: Klaus Peters PHONE: 781-416-2888 E-MAIL: sannie@akpeters.com WEB: www.akpeters.com Founded in 1992 by Alice Peters and Klaus Peters, A K Peters, Ltd. is a scientific technical publisher with a concentration in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Robotics. Publisher of the respected journal of graphics tools (jgt) we have over 200 titles in print and will publish more than 30 new titles in 2005. New graphics titles for 2005: Video-Based Rendering (Magnor), Advanced Game Development with Programmable Graphics Hardware (Watt, Policarpo), Spatial Augmented Reality (Bimber, Raskar), Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Second Edition (Shirley, et. al.), and Graphics Tools -- The jgt Editors' Choice (edited by Barzel). COMPANY: AMAX Information Technologies BOOTH/STAND: 818 MEDIA CONTACT: James Huang PHONE: 510-497-8809 E-MAIL: james_huang@amax.com WEB: www.amax.com For over 25 years, AMAX has gained market trust in designing and manufacturing customized clusters, servers, industrial PCs, mobile computing products, and workstations. ISO-9001 certified, AMAX guarantees quality products assured by stringent 5-stage reliability testing, high temperature burn-in chamber, and 24/7 technical support. AMAX is your 100% Turn Key Management for IT Manufacturing! COMPANY: Apace Systems Corporation BOOTH/STAND: 2125 MEDIA CONTACT: Jeanclaude Toma PHONE: 949-232-7092 E-MAIL: jctoma@apacesystems.com WEB: www.apacesystems.com Apace Systems is a leading Southern California based network storage system manufacturer for digital media and video editing/archive markets. Apace offers high performance enterprise class storage based on multi-gigabit Ethernet standards optimized for collaborative media editing and shared storage. At SIGGRAPH, Apace will showcase its latest e2000 series systems, utilizing the dual core multi-processor AMD Opteron CPUs ideal storage for render farms, graphics, animation, gaming and video. COMPANY: ArchVision, Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 1924 MEDIA CONTACT: Randall Stevens PHONE: 859-252-3118 ext. 104 E-MAIL: rstevens@archvision.com WEB: www.archvision.com ArchVision is the leader in the development of image-based content creation, management and delivery solutions. ArchVision's products include a growing library of RPC content ranging from people, trees and shrubs to image-based automobiles, furniture and other popular objects. RPC is the image-based rendering technology of choice for many of the leading animation, CAD, real-time simulation, and 3D modeling software packages on the market today. Native and plug-in RPC support now exists in Autodesk 3ds max, Autodesk VIZ, Autodesk Civil 3D, Bentley MicroStation, Alias' Maya, Newtek's LightWave 3D, Maxon's Cinema 4D, AccuRender from Robert McNeel & Associates, Revit, Piranesi from Informatix, Adobe Photoshop, Graffiti RenderPro, Cubicspace's rtre, Arc+ Render, VR4MAX, and SGI Performer. COMPANY: Artbeats BOOTH/STAND: 1146 MEDIA CONTACT: Julie Hill PHONE: 541-863-4429 E-MAIL: julie@artbeats.com WEB: http://www.artbeats.com Artbeats has an ever-expanding library of lifestyles, effects, international cultures, breathtaking aerials, backgrounds and more. It's Artbeats' commitment to quality that sets them apart from the competition as they continue their innovative approach of delivering high quality royalty-free stock footage. The Artbeats library contains over 8000 royalty free stock footage clips in Hi-Def, NTSC, and PAL sizes. Many NTSC and PAL resolution clips are also available for download from the Artbeats web site. COMPANY: Barco BOOTH/STAND: 1936 MEDIA CONTACT: Jay Luis IR CONTACT: Steve McCullough PHONE: 937-372-7579 E-MAIL: simulation.us@barco.com WEB: www.simulation.barco.com Barco is the leading solutions provider of visual display systems in the world, specializing in simulation, virtual & augmented reality, and edutainment applications. At SIGGRAPH 2005, booth 1936, Barco will introduce its VR Workroom offering the latest state-of-the-art visualization for data analysis, collaboration, and decision-making. Barco is also debuting its Active Infitec+ solution for active and passive stereo and high-brightness mono. COMPANY: BOXX Technologies Inc. BOOTH: 1137 MEDIA CONTACT: Ed Caracappa IR CONTACT: Rick Krause PHONE: 512-835-0400 EMAIL: ecaracappa@boxxtech.com WEB: www.boxxtech.com BOXX(R) Technologies in conjunction with Intel, ATI, Alias, Solidworks and Cakewalk offer SIGGRAPH attendees the "Ultimate in Performance" with the opportunity to win a custom $100K Orange County Choppers motorcycle at SIGGRAPH. Visit booth 1137 for all the details! BOXX delivers technology to the innovators in the digital media community with high-performance, flexible workstations that enhance creativity and fuel innovation. The BOXX series of high-end workstations are used extensively throughout the 3D, graphics, visual effects, animation, broadcast, post production, digital video and film and HD communities. COMPANY: BrightSide Technologies Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 1415 MEDIA CONTACT: Mark Grist IR CONTACT: Doug Campbell PHONE: 604-228-4624 E-MAIL: mark.grist@brightsidetech.com WEB: www.brightsidetech.com Take a look at the BrightSide of visual technology! BrightSide has developed a suite of High Dynamic Range technologies for the full imaging pipeline (Capture, Processing Storage and Display). Our HDR innovations will revolutionize industries that rely on visualization of data and display of spectacular images. At SIGGRAPH we are launching the world's first Extreme Dynamic Range display. At 10 times the brightness and 100 times the contrast, BrightSide displays set a bright new standard. COMPANY: Cycling '74 BOOTH/STAND: 2203 MEDIA CONTACT: Marsha Vdovin PHONE: 415-974-1818 E-MAIL: info@cycling74.com WEB: www.cycling74.com Cycling '74 is a San Francisco-based software company focusing on audio/video software with applications in education, research, and new media. Products include the Max/MSP/Jitter graphical programming environment for custom audio, video, and 3D graphics applications, the Pluggo, Mode, and Hipno audio plug-in collections, the Octirama multi-band dynamics processing plug-ins, and the Cycles series of audio source libraries. COMPANY: CRC Press, LLC BOOTH/STAND: 838 MEDIA CONTACT: David Grubbs PHONE: (561) 998-2524 E-MAIL: david.grubbs@taylorandfrancis.com WEB: www.crcpress.com CRC Press, LLC, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group, is a premier publisher of technical books and databases. Please visit our booth to view our latest titles in mathematics and computer science. COMPANY: Electrosonic Systems, Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 2222 MEDIA CONTACT: Karl Johnson PHONE: 952-931-7500 E-MAIL: karl.johnson@electrosonic.com WEB: www.electrosonic.com Electrosonic is a provider of specialist image processing and video streaming products. Electrosonic's VISIONETWORK, VN-MATRIX Streaming Encoder / Decoder provides real-time streaming, recording, storage and playback for UXGA or 1080i HD sources. VN-MATRIX performance attributes include: real-time encoding / decoding (60 fps) lossless, compression high efficiency compression 100:1 to 1000:1 low latency encoding and decoding (35ms) network fault tolerance platform independence COMPANY: EON Reality, Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 2258 MEDIA CONTACT: Brita Kjallstrom IR CONTACT: Mats W. Johansson PHONE: 949.460.2000 E-MAIL: marketing@eonreality.com WEB: www.eonreality.com EON Reality, Inc. is the world's leading interactive visual content management software provider. EON's powerful software solutions are helping companies increase sales, communicate product functionality more effectively and decrease the cost of service, training and technical support. EON's products have a high level of interactivity, simulation realism, rendering quality and integrated data exchange capability optimized for high performance on today's standard PCs and Internet. COMPANY: Geometry Systems Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 959 MEDIA CONTACT: Min Yu PHONE: 510-701-3886 E-MAIL: min@geometrysystems.com WEB: www.geometrysystems.com Geometry Systems Inc. provides a comprehensive set of tools for designers to transform 3D scan data into refined mesh, to re-surface a given mesh model into NURBS patches with continuity management, to generate a new precisely defined quad polygons called Cmesh with LOD control, and to create coherent high-quality texture map and other maps. GSI products offer ease of use, precise user control, high productivity, good interactive performance, top quality results, and cost effective solutions. COMPANY: Hypercosm LLC BOOTH/STAND: 2114 MEDIA CONTACT: Marty Gustafson IR CONTACT: Thomas Crabb PHONE: 608-827-5000 E-MAIL: info@hypercosm.com WEB: www.hypercosm.com Hypercosm creates products and technologies to enable highly interactive 3D simulations for remote and classroom training, education, and architectural or design visualization. Hypercosm's unique patented approach to encoding object geometry and behavior results in exceedingly low file sizes that can be delivered over the web practically and effectively, even with low bandwidth connections. Hypercosm's suite of software products and services for programs such as 3ds max can provide a powerful and flexible solution for content creators and turn-key training systems in aerospace, military, medical, education, and commercial markets. More information and customer demonstrations are available on-line at www.hypercosm.com. COMPANY: IBRIX, Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 841 MEDIA CONTACT: Jennifer Rapaport PHONE: 617-784-6100 E-MAIL: jrapaport@ibrix.com WEB: www.ibrix.com IBRIX(TM) delivers increased application performance to enterprise computing environments utilizing a unique, software-based parallel file system solution. Its patented Segmented File System(TM) is the basis for IBRIX Fusion(TM), a suite of software products that comprise the most scalable, economical, multi-purpose file system solution available for cluster computing, grid computing, and enterprise computing environments. COMPANY: Immersion Corporation BOOTH/STAND: 2229 Ticker Symbol: IMMR Exchange: Nasdaq MEDIA CONTACT: Elizabeth Conrady, +1 650.762.2815 IR CONTACT: Elizabeth Conrady PHONE: +1 408.467.1900 E-MAIL: info@immersion.com WEB: www.immersion.com Immersion develops 3D and force feedback products and technologies that include hardware and software for computer graphics, animation, and interactive techniques. The new CyberGlove(R) II wireless glove accurately captures hand and finger movements in Alias' MoCap and Dassault's CATIA. The MicroScribe(R) family of articulated arms lets users build 3D computer models or reverse engineer a design by tracing over the contours of a physical object such as a character model. COMPANY: InterSense, Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 2061 MEDIA CONTACT: Dean Wormell IR CONTACT: William Kea PHONE: +1 781 541 7607 E-MAIL: tracker@intersense.com WEB: www.intersense.com InterSense, Inc., a leader in precision motion tracking, utilizes patented, inertial-based technology to deliver fast, accurate, driftless motion tracking solutions. InterSense's technology is deployed in simulation & training systems; large area interactive immersive displays; flight and vehicle helmet tracking; virtual production for film and television; medical and clinical systems; and entertainment. InterSense offers both standard tracking systems and custom sensor technology for meeting the tracking requirements of systems integrators, contractors, and government agencies. InterSense will demonstrate their latest inertial based sensor technology with leading visualization and 3D graphics partners at the SIGGRAPH Exhibition. COMPANY: Isilon Systems BOOTH: 2100 MEDIA CONTACT: Chris Metcalfe PHONE: 206-315-7500 E-MAIL: info@isilon.com WEB: www.isilon.com Isilon is the premier provider of intelligent clustered storage systems. Isilon's products are designed for data-intensive businesses such as digital imaging and media and entertainment. Isilon helps world-class companies such as Sports Illustrated, Sony, and Technicolor meet the demands of their rapidly growing digital content environments while accelerating their workflow. Our award-winning Isilon IQ family of high-performance clustered storage systems combines our intelligent distributed file system, OneFS(TM), with modular, industry-standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability for digital environments. With NAS-level simplicity and SAN-level performance, Isilon IQ creates more total throughput at lower total cost than traditional storage systems. COMPANY: Maximum Throughput Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 2215 MEDIA CONTACT: afeigin@max-t.com PHONE: 408-356-9594 E-MAIL: afeigin@max-t.com WEB: www.max-t.com Maximum Throughput provides ultra high-performance solutions serving the storage infrastructure and media management needs of the entertainment industry. Our award-winning networked storage and content management solutions dramatically improve the economics and workflow of video and film production. Sledgehammer integrates easily into your facility, helps manage your media, and creates an optimized workflow, making you money and saving you time. COMPANY: MetaCommunications BOOTH/STAND: 2037 MEDIA CONTACT: David Resnic and Lori Kroll of Schwartz Communications PHONE: 781-684-6520 Email: metacomm@schwartz-pr.com WEB: www.meta-comm.com MetaCommunications is a leading software developer of workgroup and enterprise business management and workflow solutions for the graphic arts industry. MetaCommunications' products include Virtual Ticket 6.0, Job Manager 3.5 and Digital Storage Manager. These cross-platform products are customizable and scalable from five-user workgroups to hundreds of users in an enterprise environment. MetaCommunications has more than 750 installations of its software worldwide, helping some of the world's top creative agencies, corporate marketing groups, printing and prepress firms, and publishers work more efficiently and profitably. MetaCommunications was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Iowa City, Iowa. COMPANY: NaturalMotion Ltd. BOOTH/STAND: 1760 MEDIA CONTACT: Liaison: Heidi Lowell, (503) 796-9822 IR CONTACT: Torsten Reil PHONE: +44 (0) 1865 250 575 E-MAIL: General Inquiries: contact@naturalmotion.com WEB: www.naturalmotion.com NaturalMotion Ltd. is the first company to create 3D character animation software (endorphin) based on Dynamic Motion Synthesis (DMS), a technology that utilizes Adaptive Behaviors and artificial intelligence to simulate the human-nervous system. A breakthrough in 3D character animation, endorphin synthesizes 3D characters in real-time allowing animations to be created much faster than conventional methods; thus significantly reducing asset production time and costs. COMPANY: NewTek BOOTH/STAND: 1529 MEDIA CONTACT: Kurtis Harris PHONE: 210-370-8212 E-MAIL: kharris@newtek.com WEB: http://www.newtek.com NewTek, leading provider of full-featured animation, visual effects and video production tools including LightWave 3D(R), winner of the 2003 Primetime Emmy(R) Engineering Award, VT(4)(TM) and Tricaster.(TM) LightWave's production-proven photo-real renderer and fast, efficient modeling tools make it the mainstay of production houses for feature film and television visual effects, motion graphics and video game production. COMPANY: New York University BOOTH/STAND: 1860 MEDIA CONTACT: Ellen Evaristo PHONE: 212.992.9103 E-MAIL: ellen.evaristo@nyu.edu WEB: www.scps.nyu.edu The Center for Advanced Digital Applications (CADA) at New York University is a division of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. NYU SCPS has been for 70 years a recognized leader in the education of adult learners, with annual enrollment topping 50,000. The School offers over 1,500 courses, seminars and conferences that span more than 125 fields, as well as 14 masters degree programs and 21 bachelors programs in key business sectors, ranging from real estate to digital design. COMPANY: Panoscan Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 1055 MEDIA CONTACT: Lawrence Peters IR CONTACT: Casey Coss PHONE: 818-908-4641 E-MAIL: info@panoscan.com WEB: www.panoscan.com Panoscan Inc. manufactures and markets ultra-high resolution, digital, panoramic camera systems. Panoscan's MK-3 captures full 360 degree spherical images with over 580 mega-pixel resolution and up to 26 stops of dynamic range providing unprecedented speed and precision, for High Dynamic Range Imaging. Panoscan's exclusive photogrammetry software, PanoMetric, enables measurement within the panoramic image to within fractions of an inch. COMPANY: P.I. Engineering BOOTH/STAND: 2214 MEDIA CONTACT: Dan Slider PHONE: (517)655-5523 E-MAIL: sliderd@piengineering.com WEB: http://www.xkeys.com/ P.I. Engineering designs, manufactures, and supports rugged, reliable input hardware. Our X-keys programmable keypads place simple shortcuts, complex macros, text, models, components, or images literally at your fingertips. Our Precision Joystick, Jog & Shuttle Control, and new Captive Optical Trackball offer the user and the developer customizeable controls in a professionally finished package. Our USB devices give developers direct HID communication to software across multiple platforms. COMPANY: Pipelinefx BOOTH/STAND: 1152 MEDIA CONTACT: Jennifer Ross IR CONTACT: Richard Lewis PHONE: (808) 440-5039 E-MAIL: jennifer@pipelinefx.com WEB: www.pipelinefx.com Pipelinefx produces Qube!(TM), the ultimate render farm management system for film and game companies. Qube!(TM) is production-proven and has patent-pending techniques for queuing and process control. Qube!(TM) optimizes use of expensive hardware, allowing artists to do more iterations and improve quality. Qube!(TM) is operating system agnostic, has APIs for common programming languages, can be deeply integrated into any workflow production pipeline, and is scalable to server farms of any size. COMPANY: REALVIZ BOOTH/STAND: 1161 MEDIA CONTACT: Liz Tjostolvsen PHONE: + 33 (0) 4 9238 8460 E-MAIL: liz@realviz.com WEB: www.realviz.com REALVIZ(R), a leader in image processing software development, has confirmed that they are to launch the first applications from their new product range "Powered by SMART" at SIGGRAPH this month. The new product collection includes version 4 of the Company's acclaimed tracking software, MatchMover(R) Pro 4, MatchMover Pro 4 `MoCap' and 2 new automatic 3D tracking plug-ins, MMTrack for Autodesk(R) 3ds Max(R) & MMTrack for Maya(R). The products will begin shipping August 2005. The REALVIZ team will be demonstrating the SMART products, as well as version 2 of their 3D previz and storyboarding software, StoryViz at booth #1161 throughout SIGGRAPH. COMPANY: Reallusion BOOTH/STAND: 2223 MEDIA CONTACT: Mendy Werne PHONE: 317-806-1425 x13 E-MAIL: mendy@blastmedia.com WEB: www.reallusion.com Reallusion, a leading developer of animation and graphic software, is announcing their Certified Content Developer ("CCD") program at SIGGRAPH, as well as releasing version 4.0 of CrazyTalk(TM) and a dramatically improved version of It'sMe(TM), renamed "CyClone(TM)". The CCD program gives content developers and independent artists the opportunity to receive Reallusion's development tools including 3D Studio Max plug-ins for creating mobile-phone software content, which will then be marketed by Reallusion. Once certified, the artist is paid 50% of the sale price for every item sold in the Reallusion online, mobile, and partner marketplace. Please visit Reallusion at booth #2223. COMPANY: Savannah College of Art and Design MEDIA CONTACT: Rebecca Greenspan PHONE: 912.525.5231 E-MAIL: rgreensp@scad.edu WEB: www.scad.edu The Savannah College of Art and Design exists to prepare talented students for careers in the visual and performing arts, design, the building arts, and the history of art and architecture. The college emphasizes learning through individual attention in a positively oriented environment. The college has locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia, and in Lacoste, France. Some programs are offered online through SCAD e-Learning. For more information about the college, its programs of study and cultural events sponsored by the college, call 800.869.7223 or 912.525.5100 or visit the college Web site at www.scad.edu. E-mail may be sent to info@scad.edu. COMPANY: Sharpdots BOOTH/STAND: 1059 MEDIA CONTACT: Michael Sampiano PHONE: 626-599-9696 x202 E-MAIL: michael@sharpdots.com WEB: www.sharpdots.com SharpDots is an affordable online commercial press producing full-color brochures, sales sheets, direct mail postcards, booklets, and more. Visit our booth (#1059) to learn about how SharpDots can make commercial print purchasing easy and affordable. Don't forget to ask for one of our Exclusive Presentation Kits. You can also access our website at www.sharpdots.com COMPANY: Sony Pictures Imageworks BOOTH/STAND: 1437 MEDIA CONTACT: Kristen Tarnol / Camille Bingcang PHONE: 310-840-8234 / 310-840-7313 E-MAIL: ktarnol@imageworks.com / camille@imageworks.com WEB: www.imageworks.com Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. is an Academy Award(R)-winning, state-of-the-art visual effects and character animation company dedicated to the art and artistry of digital production and character creation. The company has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Oscars(R) for its work on "Spider-Man 2" and the CG-animated short film "The ChubbChubbs!" as well as nominations for "Spider-Man," "Hollow Man," "Stuart Little" and "Starship Troopers." COMPANY: Syflex BOOTH/STAND: 2104 MEDIA CONTACT: Tami Zori PHONE: 808-386-3567 E-MAIL: tami@syflex.biz WEB: www.syflex.biz Syflex is dedicated to providing the 3D animation market with superior simulation technologies. Our cloth simulator offers a fast and stable solution, gaining since its first release in 2002 an ever-growing list of clients, from big studios, to smaller FX houses and independent animators. We are excited to be actively contributing to some of the best special effects sequences seen; between The Lord of The Rings and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, SyFlex was used in countless productions of all sizes. Announced at SIGGRAPH 2005, Syflex Studio was formed to offer production services focused on cloth design, simulation and effects. COMPANY: The Art Institutes Ticker Symbol: EDMC MEDIA CONTACT: Jeff Durosko PHONE: 412-995-7232 E-MAIL: jdurosko@edmc.edu WEB: www.artinstitutes.edu The Art Institutes, with 31 education institutions located throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion and culinary professionals. Parent company, Education Management Corporation, is among the largest providers of private post-secondary education in North America. Student enrollment exceeded 66,000 as of fall 2004. EDMC has 70 primary campus locations in 24 states and two Canadian provinces and has provided career-oriented education for over 40 years. COMPANY: Tri-Dimensional Animation Studios BOOTH/STAND: 2237 MEDIA CONTACT: Brian Ward & Kevin Scolaro IR CONTACT: Kevin Scolaro PHONE: 813-221-6705 E-MAIL: Info@TriDStudios.com WEB: http://www.TriDStudios.com Tri-Dimensional Animation Studios is a full service animation production studio based in sunny Tampa Bay, Florida USA. We offer a full line of traditional 2D and CG (3D) animation production services for Feature Films, Television Episodes, Commercials, Game Development, Cinematics, Direct-to-Video, Architectural and Product Visualizations. Our services include all pre-production services including sound and voice-overs, 2D and CG animation production and post production services. COMPANY: Western Scientific BOOTH/STAND: 953 MEDIA CONTACT: Steve Thompson PHONE: 1-858-565-6699 E-MAIL: info@wsm.com WEB: www.wsm.com Western Scientific is a global provider of high-performance computing and rendering cluster, powerful rack-mounted servers and workstations, robust disk storage, and reliable tape backup systems. Western Scientific is an AMD Platinum level solution provider offering a full range of products powered by the new dual-core AMD Opteron processor. Headquartered in San Diego, California with UK operations based in Staffordshire, England, Western Scientific continues its 26-year history of blending the very latest and most innovative computing and storage technology with an unparallel customer-centric focus. For more information on Western Scientific and its products contact: info@wsm.com or visit us at www.wsm.com. COMPANY: WorldViz BOOTH/STAND: 862 MEDIA CONTACT: Peter Schlueer IR CONTACT: Andy Beall PHONE: 805-966-0786 E-MAIL: contact@worldviz.com WEB: www.worldviz.com WorldViz is an industry leader in interactive virtual reality solutions, offering a large portfolio of products ranging from 3D software to optical tracking. As a system integrator we deliver complete turnkey solutions. 3D TOOLKIT - VIZARD is everything you need to build complete, interactive 3D content. Its powerful yet simple scripting language makes 3D programming efficient and easy. Vizard natively supports most VR hardware devices on the market. OPTICAL TRACKING - PPT tracks multiple targets over large areas (30x30 feet) while maintaining high precision and accuracy. It presents excellent value for the real-time demands of immersive virtual reality applications. COMPANY: Zygote Media Group BOOTH/STAND: 2153 MEDIA CONTACT: Tim Rush, Snapp Norris Group, 801-208-1100, tim.rush@sng.com IR CONTACT: Bryan Brandenburg PHONE: 801-765-4141 E-MAIL: bryan@zygote.com WEB: http://www.zygote.com Zygote Media Group provides the industry's leading 3D content and service for the Bio-Medical, Broadcast Commercial, Game, and Feature Film markets. Driven by a passion for excellence and a commitment to our customers, Zygote's team provides world-class 3D content and services at competitive prices. Zygote's top-quality services include: Modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, and effects. With over 10 years of development, Zygote's library of licensable content boasts the most comprehensive collections of anatomical 3D content available. Everything under the skin -- Everything out of this world ... A God's eye view of the universe.
For in-depth information about the event, visit http://www.SIGGRAPH.org/s2005/main.php?f=media.
Below are profiles from SIGGRAPH 2005 exhibitors; breaking news releases and photos are available at http://www.tradeshownews.com, Business Wire's trade show, conference, and event news resource.
Business Wire is the official news wire service for SIGGRAPH 2005. -0- COMPANY: 3Dconnexion BOOTH/STAND: Booth # 2130 MEDIA CONTACT: Tanya Jeffers PHONE: 415-897-0999 E-MAIL: tanya_jeffers@3dconnexion.com WEB: http://www.3dconnexion.com 3Dconnexion, a Logitech company, designs, manufactures and markets an award winning line of advanced motion controllers. Designed to work together with a traditional mouse, the motion controllers deliver a unique and powerful two-handed work style to the professional software market. Users can pan, zoom and rotate with a motion controller in one hand while simultaneously create, edit or annotate with a mouse in the other. COMPANY: Academy of Art University, San Francisco BOOTH/STAND: 1334 MEDIA CONTACT: Tod Brilliant PHONE: 707-235-1026 E-MAIL: tod@sonic.net WEB: www.academyart.edu Founded by artists for artists, the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, is the nation's largest private art and design school. Offering accredited AA, BFA and MFA degrees, the Academy invest heavily to provide world-class facilities, ensuring students the technical edge upon which their success depends. Classes are taught by top industry professionals whose connections and high standards result in 80% of students working for art and design companies like Disney, EA Games and LucasFilm. Courses in 3D Modeling, Animation, Computer Illustration, Digital Imaging, Digital Photography, Game Design, Motion Graphics, Motion Pictures & Television, Visual Effects, Web Design and more. COMPANY: A K Peters, Ltd. BOOTH/STAND: 1110 MEDIA CONTACT: Susannah Sieper IR CONTACT: Klaus Peters PHONE: 781-416-2888 E-MAIL: sannie@akpeters.com WEB: www.akpeters.com Founded in 1992 by Alice Peters and Klaus Peters, A K Peters, Ltd. is a scientific technical publisher with a concentration in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Robotics. Publisher of the respected journal of graphics tools (jgt) we have over 200 titles in print and will publish more than 30 new titles in 2005. New graphics titles for 2005: Video-Based Rendering (Magnor), Advanced Game Development with Programmable Graphics Hardware (Watt, Policarpo), Spatial Augmented Reality (Bimber, Raskar), Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Second Edition (Shirley, et. al.), and Graphics Tools -- The jgt Editors' Choice (edited by Barzel). COMPANY: AMAX Information Technologies BOOTH/STAND: 818 MEDIA CONTACT: James Huang PHONE: 510-497-8809 E-MAIL: james_huang@amax.com WEB: www.amax.com For over 25 years, AMAX has gained market trust in designing and manufacturing customized clusters, servers, industrial PCs, mobile computing products, and workstations. ISO-9001 certified, AMAX guarantees quality products assured by stringent 5-stage reliability testing, high temperature burn-in chamber, and 24/7 technical support. AMAX is your 100% Turn Key Management for IT Manufacturing! COMPANY: Apace Systems Corporation BOOTH/STAND: 2125 MEDIA CONTACT: Jeanclaude Toma PHONE: 949-232-7092 E-MAIL: jctoma@apacesystems.com WEB: www.apacesystems.com Apace Systems is a leading Southern California based network storage system manufacturer for digital media and video editing/archive markets. Apace offers high performance enterprise class storage based on multi-gigabit Ethernet standards optimized for collaborative media editing and shared storage. At SIGGRAPH, Apace will showcase its latest e2000 series systems, utilizing the dual core multi-processor AMD Opteron CPUs ideal storage for render farms, graphics, animation, gaming and video. COMPANY: ArchVision, Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 1924 MEDIA CONTACT: Randall Stevens PHONE: 859-252-3118 ext. 104 E-MAIL: rstevens@archvision.com WEB: www.archvision.com ArchVision is the leader in the development of image-based content creation, management and delivery solutions. ArchVision's products include a growing library of RPC content ranging from people, trees and shrubs to image-based automobiles, furniture and other popular objects. RPC is the image-based rendering technology of choice for many of the leading animation, CAD, real-time simulation, and 3D modeling software packages on the market today. Native and plug-in RPC support now exists in Autodesk 3ds max, Autodesk VIZ, Autodesk Civil 3D, Bentley MicroStation, Alias' Maya, Newtek's LightWave 3D, Maxon's Cinema 4D, AccuRender from Robert McNeel & Associates, Revit, Piranesi from Informatix, Adobe Photoshop, Graffiti RenderPro, Cubicspace's rtre, Arc+ Render, VR4MAX, and SGI Performer. COMPANY: Artbeats BOOTH/STAND: 1146 MEDIA CONTACT: Julie Hill PHONE: 541-863-4429 E-MAIL: julie@artbeats.com WEB: http://www.artbeats.com Artbeats has an ever-expanding library of lifestyles, effects, international cultures, breathtaking aerials, backgrounds and more. It's Artbeats' commitment to quality that sets them apart from the competition as they continue their innovative approach of delivering high quality royalty-free stock footage. The Artbeats library contains over 8000 royalty free stock footage clips in Hi-Def, NTSC, and PAL sizes. Many NTSC and PAL resolution clips are also available for download from the Artbeats web site. COMPANY: Barco BOOTH/STAND: 1936 MEDIA CONTACT: Jay Luis IR CONTACT: Steve McCullough PHONE: 937-372-7579 E-MAIL: simulation.us@barco.com WEB: www.simulation.barco.com Barco is the leading solutions provider of visual display systems in the world, specializing in simulation, virtual & augmented reality, and edutainment applications. At SIGGRAPH 2005, booth 1936, Barco will introduce its VR Workroom offering the latest state-of-the-art visualization for data analysis, collaboration, and decision-making. Barco is also debuting its Active Infitec+ solution for active and passive stereo and high-brightness mono. COMPANY: BOXX Technologies Inc. BOOTH: 1137 MEDIA CONTACT: Ed Caracappa IR CONTACT: Rick Krause PHONE: 512-835-0400 EMAIL: ecaracappa@boxxtech.com WEB: www.boxxtech.com BOXX(R) Technologies in conjunction with Intel, ATI, Alias, Solidworks and Cakewalk offer SIGGRAPH attendees the "Ultimate in Performance" with the opportunity to win a custom $100K Orange County Choppers motorcycle at SIGGRAPH. Visit booth 1137 for all the details! BOXX delivers technology to the innovators in the digital media community with high-performance, flexible workstations that enhance creativity and fuel innovation. The BOXX series of high-end workstations are used extensively throughout the 3D, graphics, visual effects, animation, broadcast, post production, digital video and film and HD communities. COMPANY: BrightSide Technologies Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 1415 MEDIA CONTACT: Mark Grist IR CONTACT: Doug Campbell PHONE: 604-228-4624 E-MAIL: mark.grist@brightsidetech.com WEB: www.brightsidetech.com Take a look at the BrightSide of visual technology! BrightSide has developed a suite of High Dynamic Range technologies for the full imaging pipeline (Capture, Processing Storage and Display). Our HDR innovations will revolutionize industries that rely on visualization of data and display of spectacular images. At SIGGRAPH we are launching the world's first Extreme Dynamic Range display. At 10 times the brightness and 100 times the contrast, BrightSide displays set a bright new standard. COMPANY: Cycling '74 BOOTH/STAND: 2203 MEDIA CONTACT: Marsha Vdovin PHONE: 415-974-1818 E-MAIL: info@cycling74.com WEB: www.cycling74.com Cycling '74 is a San Francisco-based software company focusing on audio/video software with applications in education, research, and new media. Products include the Max/MSP/Jitter graphical programming environment for custom audio, video, and 3D graphics applications, the Pluggo, Mode, and Hipno audio plug-in collections, the Octirama multi-band dynamics processing plug-ins, and the Cycles series of audio source libraries. COMPANY: CRC Press, LLC BOOTH/STAND: 838 MEDIA CONTACT: David Grubbs PHONE: (561) 998-2524 E-MAIL: david.grubbs@taylorandfrancis.com WEB: www.crcpress.com CRC Press, LLC, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group, is a premier publisher of technical books and databases. Please visit our booth to view our latest titles in mathematics and computer science. COMPANY: Electrosonic Systems, Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 2222 MEDIA CONTACT: Karl Johnson PHONE: 952-931-7500 E-MAIL: karl.johnson@electrosonic.com WEB: www.electrosonic.com Electrosonic is a provider of specialist image processing and video streaming products. Electrosonic's VISIONETWORK, VN-MATRIX Streaming Encoder / Decoder provides real-time streaming, recording, storage and playback for UXGA or 1080i HD sources. VN-MATRIX performance attributes include: real-time encoding / decoding (60 fps) lossless, compression high efficiency compression 100:1 to 1000:1 low latency encoding and decoding (35ms) network fault tolerance platform independence COMPANY: EON Reality, Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 2258 MEDIA CONTACT: Brita Kjallstrom IR CONTACT: Mats W. Johansson PHONE: 949.460.2000 E-MAIL: marketing@eonreality.com WEB: www.eonreality.com EON Reality, Inc. is the world's leading interactive visual content management software provider. EON's powerful software solutions are helping companies increase sales, communicate product functionality more effectively and decrease the cost of service, training and technical support. EON's products have a high level of interactivity, simulation realism, rendering quality and integrated data exchange capability optimized for high performance on today's standard PCs and Internet. COMPANY: Geometry Systems Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 959 MEDIA CONTACT: Min Yu PHONE: 510-701-3886 E-MAIL: min@geometrysystems.com WEB: www.geometrysystems.com Geometry Systems Inc. provides a comprehensive set of tools for designers to transform 3D scan data into refined mesh, to re-surface a given mesh model into NURBS patches with continuity management, to generate a new precisely defined quad polygons called Cmesh with LOD control, and to create coherent high-quality texture map and other maps. GSI products offer ease of use, precise user control, high productivity, good interactive performance, top quality results, and cost effective solutions. COMPANY: Hypercosm LLC BOOTH/STAND: 2114 MEDIA CONTACT: Marty Gustafson IR CONTACT: Thomas Crabb PHONE: 608-827-5000 E-MAIL: info@hypercosm.com WEB: www.hypercosm.com Hypercosm creates products and technologies to enable highly interactive 3D simulations for remote and classroom training, education, and architectural or design visualization. Hypercosm's unique patented approach to encoding object geometry and behavior results in exceedingly low file sizes that can be delivered over the web practically and effectively, even with low bandwidth connections. Hypercosm's suite of software products and services for programs such as 3ds max can provide a powerful and flexible solution for content creators and turn-key training systems in aerospace, military, medical, education, and commercial markets. More information and customer demonstrations are available on-line at www.hypercosm.com. COMPANY: IBRIX, Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 841 MEDIA CONTACT: Jennifer Rapaport PHONE: 617-784-6100 E-MAIL: jrapaport@ibrix.com WEB: www.ibrix.com IBRIX(TM) delivers increased application performance to enterprise computing environments utilizing a unique, software-based parallel file system solution. Its patented Segmented File System(TM) is the basis for IBRIX Fusion(TM), a suite of software products that comprise the most scalable, economical, multi-purpose file system solution available for cluster computing, grid computing, and enterprise computing environments. COMPANY: Immersion Corporation BOOTH/STAND: 2229 Ticker Symbol: IMMR Exchange: Nasdaq MEDIA CONTACT: Elizabeth Conrady, +1 650.762.2815 IR CONTACT: Elizabeth Conrady PHONE: +1 408.467.1900 E-MAIL: info@immersion.com WEB: www.immersion.com Immersion develops 3D and force feedback products and technologies that include hardware and software for computer graphics, animation, and interactive techniques. The new CyberGlove(R) II wireless glove accurately captures hand and finger movements in Alias' MoCap and Dassault's CATIA. The MicroScribe(R) family of articulated arms lets users build 3D computer models or reverse engineer a design by tracing over the contours of a physical object such as a character model. COMPANY: InterSense, Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 2061 MEDIA CONTACT: Dean Wormell IR CONTACT: William Kea PHONE: +1 781 541 7607 E-MAIL: tracker@intersense.com WEB: www.intersense.com InterSense, Inc., a leader in precision motion tracking, utilizes patented, inertial-based technology to deliver fast, accurate, driftless motion tracking solutions. InterSense's technology is deployed in simulation & training systems; large area interactive immersive displays; flight and vehicle helmet tracking; virtual production for film and television; medical and clinical systems; and entertainment. InterSense offers both standard tracking systems and custom sensor technology for meeting the tracking requirements of systems integrators, contractors, and government agencies. InterSense will demonstrate their latest inertial based sensor technology with leading visualization and 3D graphics partners at the SIGGRAPH Exhibition. COMPANY: Isilon Systems BOOTH: 2100 MEDIA CONTACT: Chris Metcalfe PHONE: 206-315-7500 E-MAIL: info@isilon.com WEB: www.isilon.com Isilon is the premier provider of intelligent clustered storage systems. Isilon's products are designed for data-intensive businesses such as digital imaging and media and entertainment. Isilon helps world-class companies such as Sports Illustrated, Sony, and Technicolor meet the demands of their rapidly growing digital content environments while accelerating their workflow. Our award-winning Isilon IQ family of high-performance clustered storage systems combines our intelligent distributed file system, OneFS(TM), with modular, industry-standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability for digital environments. With NAS-level simplicity and SAN-level performance, Isilon IQ creates more total throughput at lower total cost than traditional storage systems. COMPANY: Maximum Throughput Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 2215 MEDIA CONTACT: afeigin@max-t.com PHONE: 408-356-9594 E-MAIL: afeigin@max-t.com WEB: www.max-t.com Maximum Throughput provides ultra high-performance solutions serving the storage infrastructure and media management needs of the entertainment industry. Our award-winning networked storage and content management solutions dramatically improve the economics and workflow of video and film production. Sledgehammer integrates easily into your facility, helps manage your media, and creates an optimized workflow, making you money and saving you time. COMPANY: MetaCommunications BOOTH/STAND: 2037 MEDIA CONTACT: David Resnic and Lori Kroll of Schwartz Communications PHONE: 781-684-6520 Email: metacomm@schwartz-pr.com WEB: www.meta-comm.com MetaCommunications is a leading software developer of workgroup and enterprise business management and workflow solutions for the graphic arts industry. MetaCommunications' products include Virtual Ticket 6.0, Job Manager 3.5 and Digital Storage Manager. These cross-platform products are customizable and scalable from five-user workgroups to hundreds of users in an enterprise environment. MetaCommunications has more than 750 installations of its software worldwide, helping some of the world's top creative agencies, corporate marketing groups, printing and prepress firms, and publishers work more efficiently and profitably. MetaCommunications was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Iowa City, Iowa. COMPANY: NaturalMotion Ltd. BOOTH/STAND: 1760 MEDIA CONTACT: Liaison: Heidi Lowell, (503) 796-9822 IR CONTACT: Torsten Reil PHONE: +44 (0) 1865 250 575 E-MAIL: General Inquiries: contact@naturalmotion.com WEB: www.naturalmotion.com NaturalMotion Ltd. is the first company to create 3D character animation software (endorphin) based on Dynamic Motion Synthesis (DMS), a technology that utilizes Adaptive Behaviors and artificial intelligence to simulate the human-nervous system. A breakthrough in 3D character animation, endorphin synthesizes 3D characters in real-time allowing animations to be created much faster than conventional methods; thus significantly reducing asset production time and costs. COMPANY: NewTek BOOTH/STAND: 1529 MEDIA CONTACT: Kurtis Harris PHONE: 210-370-8212 E-MAIL: kharris@newtek.com WEB: http://www.newtek.com NewTek, leading provider of full-featured animation, visual effects and video production tools including LightWave 3D(R), winner of the 2003 Primetime Emmy(R) Engineering Award, VT(4)(TM) and Tricaster.(TM) LightWave's production-proven photo-real renderer and fast, efficient modeling tools make it the mainstay of production houses for feature film and television visual effects, motion graphics and video game production. COMPANY: New York University BOOTH/STAND: 1860 MEDIA CONTACT: Ellen Evaristo PHONE: 212.992.9103 E-MAIL: ellen.evaristo@nyu.edu WEB: www.scps.nyu.edu The Center for Advanced Digital Applications (CADA) at New York University is a division of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. NYU SCPS has been for 70 years a recognized leader in the education of adult learners, with annual enrollment topping 50,000. The School offers over 1,500 courses, seminars and conferences that span more than 125 fields, as well as 14 masters degree programs and 21 bachelors programs in key business sectors, ranging from real estate to digital design. COMPANY: Panoscan Inc. BOOTH/STAND: 1055 MEDIA CONTACT: Lawrence Peters IR CONTACT: Casey Coss PHONE: 818-908-4641 E-MAIL: info@panoscan.com WEB: www.panoscan.com Panoscan Inc. manufactures and markets ultra-high resolution, digital, panoramic camera systems. Panoscan's MK-3 captures full 360 degree spherical images with over 580 mega-pixel resolution and up to 26 stops of dynamic range providing unprecedented speed and precision, for High Dynamic Range Imaging. Panoscan's exclusive photogrammetry software, PanoMetric, enables measurement within the panoramic image to within fractions of an inch. COMPANY: P.I. Engineering BOOTH/STAND: 2214 MEDIA CONTACT: Dan Slider PHONE: (517)655-5523 E-MAIL: sliderd@piengineering.com WEB: http://www.xkeys.com/ P.I. Engineering designs, manufactures, and supports rugged, reliable input hardware. Our X-keys programmable keypads place simple shortcuts, complex macros, text, models, components, or images literally at your fingertips. Our Precision Joystick, Jog & Shuttle Control, and new Captive Optical Trackball offer the user and the developer customizeable controls in a professionally finished package. Our USB devices give developers direct HID communication to software across multiple platforms. COMPANY: Pipelinefx BOOTH/STAND: 1152 MEDIA CONTACT: Jennifer Ross IR CONTACT: Richard Lewis PHONE: (808) 440-5039 E-MAIL: jennifer@pipelinefx.com WEB: www.pipelinefx.com Pipelinefx produces Qube!(TM), the ultimate render farm management system for film and game companies. Qube!(TM) is production-proven and has patent-pending techniques for queuing and process control. Qube!(TM) optimizes use of expensive hardware, allowing artists to do more iterations and improve quality. Qube!(TM) is operating system agnostic, has APIs for common programming languages, can be deeply integrated into any workflow production pipeline, and is scalable to server farms of any size. COMPANY: REALVIZ BOOTH/STAND: 1161 MEDIA CONTACT: Liz Tjostolvsen PHONE: + 33 (0) 4 9238 8460 E-MAIL: liz@realviz.com WEB: www.realviz.com REALVIZ(R), a leader in image processing software development, has confirmed that they are to launch the first applications from their new product range "Powered by SMART" at SIGGRAPH this month. The new product collection includes version 4 of the Company's acclaimed tracking software, MatchMover(R) Pro 4, MatchMover Pro 4 `MoCap' and 2 new automatic 3D tracking plug-ins, MMTrack for Autodesk(R) 3ds Max(R) & MMTrack for Maya(R). The products will begin shipping August 2005. The REALVIZ team will be demonstrating the SMART products, as well as version 2 of their 3D previz and storyboarding software, StoryViz at booth #1161 throughout SIGGRAPH. COMPANY: Reallusion BOOTH/STAND: 2223 MEDIA CONTACT: Mendy Werne PHONE: 317-806-1425 x13 E-MAIL: mendy@blastmedia.com WEB: www.reallusion.com Reallusion, a leading developer of animation and graphic software, is announcing their Certified Content Developer ("CCD") program at SIGGRAPH, as well as releasing version 4.0 of CrazyTalk(TM) and a dramatically improved version of It'sMe(TM), renamed "CyClone(TM)". The CCD program gives content developers and independent artists the opportunity to receive Reallusion's development tools including 3D Studio Max plug-ins for creating mobile-phone software content, which will then be marketed by Reallusion. Once certified, the artist is paid 50% of the sale price for every item sold in the Reallusion online, mobile, and partner marketplace. Please visit Reallusion at booth #2223. COMPANY: Savannah College of Art and Design MEDIA CONTACT: Rebecca Greenspan PHONE: 912.525.5231 E-MAIL: rgreensp@scad.edu WEB: www.scad.edu The Savannah College of Art and Design exists to prepare talented students for careers in the visual and performing arts, design, the building arts, and the history of art and architecture. The college emphasizes learning through individual attention in a positively oriented environment. The college has locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia, and in Lacoste, France. Some programs are offered online through SCAD e-Learning. For more information about the college, its programs of study and cultural events sponsored by the college, call 800.869.7223 or 912.525.5100 or visit the college Web site at www.scad.edu. E-mail may be sent to info@scad.edu. COMPANY: Sharpdots BOOTH/STAND: 1059 MEDIA CONTACT: Michael Sampiano PHONE: 626-599-9696 x202 E-MAIL: michael@sharpdots.com WEB: www.sharpdots.com SharpDots is an affordable online commercial press producing full-color brochures, sales sheets, direct mail postcards, booklets, and more. Visit our booth (#1059) to learn about how SharpDots can make commercial print purchasing easy and affordable. Don't forget to ask for one of our Exclusive Presentation Kits. You can also access our website at www.sharpdots.com COMPANY: Sony Pictures Imageworks BOOTH/STAND: 1437 MEDIA CONTACT: Kristen Tarnol / Camille Bingcang PHONE: 310-840-8234 / 310-840-7313 E-MAIL: ktarnol@imageworks.com / camille@imageworks.com WEB: www.imageworks.com Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. is an Academy Award(R)-winning, state-of-the-art visual effects and character animation company dedicated to the art and artistry of digital production and character creation. The company has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Oscars(R) for its work on "Spider-Man 2" and the CG-animated short film "The ChubbChubbs!" as well as nominations for "Spider-Man," "Hollow Man," "Stuart Little" and "Starship Troopers." COMPANY: Syflex BOOTH/STAND: 2104 MEDIA CONTACT: Tami Zori PHONE: 808-386-3567 E-MAIL: tami@syflex.biz WEB: www.syflex.biz Syflex is dedicated to providing the 3D animation market with superior simulation technologies. Our cloth simulator offers a fast and stable solution, gaining since its first release in 2002 an ever-growing list of clients, from big studios, to smaller FX houses and independent animators. We are excited to be actively contributing to some of the best special effects sequences seen; between The Lord of The Rings and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, SyFlex was used in countless productions of all sizes. Announced at SIGGRAPH 2005, Syflex Studio was formed to offer production services focused on cloth design, simulation and effects. COMPANY: The Art Institutes Ticker Symbol: EDMC MEDIA CONTACT: Jeff Durosko PHONE: 412-995-7232 E-MAIL: jdurosko@edmc.edu WEB: www.artinstitutes.edu The Art Institutes, with 31 education institutions located throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion and culinary professionals. Parent company, Education Management Corporation, is among the largest providers of private post-secondary education in North America. Student enrollment exceeded 66,000 as of fall 2004. EDMC has 70 primary campus locations in 24 states and two Canadian provinces and has provided career-oriented education for over 40 years. COMPANY: Tri-Dimensional Animation Studios BOOTH/STAND: 2237 MEDIA CONTACT: Brian Ward & Kevin Scolaro IR CONTACT: Kevin Scolaro PHONE: 813-221-6705 E-MAIL: Info@TriDStudios.com WEB: http://www.TriDStudios.com Tri-Dimensional Animation Studios is a full service animation production studio based in sunny Tampa Bay, Florida USA. We offer a full line of traditional 2D and CG (3D) animation production services for Feature Films, Television Episodes, Commercials, Game Development, Cinematics, Direct-to-Video, Architectural and Product Visualizations. Our services include all pre-production services including sound and voice-overs, 2D and CG animation production and post production services. COMPANY: Western Scientific BOOTH/STAND: 953 MEDIA CONTACT: Steve Thompson PHONE: 1-858-565-6699 E-MAIL: info@wsm.com WEB: www.wsm.com Western Scientific is a global provider of high-performance computing and rendering cluster, powerful rack-mounted servers and workstations, robust disk storage, and reliable tape backup systems. Western Scientific is an AMD Platinum level solution provider offering a full range of products powered by the new dual-core AMD Opteron processor. Headquartered in San Diego, California with UK operations based in Staffordshire, England, Western Scientific continues its 26-year history of blending the very latest and most innovative computing and storage technology with an unparallel customer-centric focus. For more information on Western Scientific and its products contact: info@wsm.com or visit us at www.wsm.com. COMPANY: WorldViz BOOTH/STAND: 862 MEDIA CONTACT: Peter Schlueer IR CONTACT: Andy Beall PHONE: 805-966-0786 E-MAIL: contact@worldviz.com WEB: www.worldviz.com WorldViz is an industry leader in interactive virtual reality solutions, offering a large portfolio of products ranging from 3D software to optical tracking. As a system integrator we deliver complete turnkey solutions. 3D TOOLKIT - VIZARD is everything you need to build complete, interactive 3D content. Its powerful yet simple scripting language makes 3D programming efficient and easy. Vizard natively supports most VR hardware devices on the market. OPTICAL TRACKING - PPT tracks multiple targets over large areas (30x30 feet) while maintaining high precision and accuracy. It presents excellent value for the real-time demands of immersive virtual reality applications. COMPANY: Zygote Media Group BOOTH/STAND: 2153 MEDIA CONTACT: Tim Rush, Snapp Norris Group, 801-208-1100, tim.rush@sng.com IR CONTACT: Bryan Brandenburg PHONE: 801-765-4141 E-MAIL: bryan@zygote.com WEB: http://www.zygote.com Zygote Media Group provides the industry's leading 3D content and service for the Bio-Medical, Broadcast Commercial, Game, and Feature Film markets. Driven by a passion for excellence and a commitment to our customers, Zygote's team provides world-class 3D content and services at competitive prices. Zygote's top-quality services include: Modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, and effects. With over 10 years of development, Zygote's library of licensable content boasts the most comprehensive collections of anatomical 3D content available. Everything under the skin -- Everything out of this world ... A God's eye view of the universe.
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