Credo Interactive Announces Two New Intuitive, Flexible, and Comprehensive Character Movement Solutions

Life Forms 3.0 and Life Forms Studio 3.0 promise enhanced productivity, greater ease-of-use for a full range of 3D graphics users

Contact:

Ken Bryson, Marketing Coordinator kenb@credo-interactive.com ph: (604) 291-6717 fx: (604) 291-7484

Vancouver, B.C. - April 14, 1998 - Credo Interactive Inc. today announced the upcoming addition of two comprehensive and intuitive character movement tools to its family of Life Forms products. With powerful new figure manipulation and editing functions, Life Forms 3.0 and Life Forms Studio 3.0 provide natural options to increase productivity and streamline character movement for many of today’s most popular 3D animation packages. New default models and ready-to-use movement sequences also provide users greater flexibility to create movement sequences faster and easier than ever before.

“Both Life Forms 3.0 and Life Forms Studio 3.0 provide animators and choreographers with first class tools to create more dynamic character movement sequences faster and easier,” said Dr. Tom Calvert, Credo Interactive’s chairman and co-founder. “With our new figure movement controls and editing options, the new Life Forms offers a highly advanced ability to create and modify character movement onscreen.”

Expanding Credo’s line of powerful character movement solutions, Life Forms 3.0 builds upon the popular Life Forms program and now forms Credo’s base solution. Life Forms Studio 3.0, Credo’s new top end solution, includes all the features of Life Forms 3.0 plus a full palette of extended options. With advanced data sharing capabilities, many additional ready-to-use motion capture files, plus the popular character movement library PowerMoves I - including over 600 ready-to-use character movement sequences - Life Forms Studio 3.0 offers a complete suite of tools for professional and non-professional users alike.

With these major new products, Credo now offers superior solutions for character movement to a full range of 3D graphics users. Animators and artists alike will benefit from the advanced functionality of the new Life Forms product line, be they creating 3D games and avatars, producing animation and pre-visualization sequences for film and video, designing 3D graphics for the World Wide Web, choreographing dance routines, or working with character movement in any capacity.

Life Forms 3.0 and Life Forms Studio 3.0 main features

With powerful new features such as built-in rendering, inverse kinematics, and extensive keyframe range editing, Life Forms 3.0 and Life Forms Studio 3.0 promise greater ease-of-use for character animators and choreographers. Other new features include:

• extensive rendering options available via add-on Lightworks renderer**
• new default figures, including an all-new female, and improved male
• file browser for easy access and insertion of animation files and sequences
• new interpolation models, including spline and none
• ready-to-use character models, keyframed sequences, and motion capture files
• quick keys for viewing control
• keyframe advancer for enhanced timeline functionality
• and much more ...

** note - the optional LightWorks renderer is not included with Life Forms 3.0 or Life Forms Studio 3.0 and must be purchased separately.

Pricing, Availability, and Data Sharing Support

Life Forms 3.0

Pricing: SRP - $299 US
Available: 2nd Quarter 1998
Data Sharing support: Infini-D, Extreme 3D, 3D Studio Release 4, Pixel Putty, SGI Life Forms,
and online 3D worlds.

Future Plugins for Life Forms 3.0 will include support for TrueSpace users.

Life Forms Studio 3.0

Pricing: SRP - $495 US
Available: 2nd Quarter 1998
Data Sharing support: motion capture data (Acclaim and BioVision), ElectricImage, Cinema 4DXL, and VRML 2.0.

Future Plugins for Life Forms Studio 3.0 will include support for LightWave
3D Studio Max, and Strata StudioPro.