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<div class="left_inner_box_heading"><h1>PuppetTime and ProSoft Announce Partnership to Advance Web 3D Storytelling</h1></div>
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<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
<p>PUPPETTIME AND PROSOFT ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP TO ADVANCE WEB 3D STORYTELLING</p>
<p>Web 3D Company Blends Entertainment And E-Commerce For Mass Market Content<br />
Creation</p>
<p>SAN FRANCISCO (April 10th, 2000) - PuppetTime, Inc. And Prosoft<br />
Engineering, Inc. today announced a strategic development partnership. The<br />
companies signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI) that provides PuppetTime access<br />
to Prosoft's innovative engineering resources to accelerate development of<br />
PuppetTime's patent pending Web 3D storytelling technologies across<br />
platforms and across the Internet.</p>
<p>"We see a vast market potential for 3D on the Internet," says Greg Brewer,<br />
CEO of Prosoft Engineering, "While others focus on e-commerce visualization<br />
and web character solutions that require professional skills to create,<br />
PuppetTime advances a whole new concept of entertainment that gives<br />
non-professionals access to the expressiveness of 3D animation. Prosoft<br />
Engineering is excited to be able to partner with PuppetTime and help open<br />
the door into this whole new industry."</p>
<p>"The key to Web 3D is easy-to-use content creation tools," says Deeje<br />
Cooley, CTO of PuppetTime, "Just as the visual metaphor of folders and<br />
menus brought powerful computers to the masses, the metaphor of cinematic<br />
storytelling will empower a whole new generation of 3D movie makers."</p>
<p>Sophistication Made Easy</p>
<p>PuppetTime Producer is an easy-to-use 3D character animation program that<br />
implements the concept of digital actors. Users can create visually<br />
compelling 3D animations in minutes simply by selecting characters, typing<br />
dialog, recording sounds and voice-overs, and choosing actions. 3D modeling<br />
or animation experience is not required because the digital actors, or<br />
puppets, are predefined and know how to draw and animate themselves. For<br />
instance, puppets have a number of animated emotional states built in,<br />
which are easily chosen from a simple list. Puppets also automatically<br />
create their own mouth shapes (visemes) from dialog text, using a<br />
Text-To-Speech technology. The user can then overdub his or her own voice<br />
speaking the dialog, giving the puppet characters unique inflections and<br />
personalities. Sound tracks can be imported for use as sound effects and<br />
background music. Still images can be imported as backgrounds. The program<br />
also supports multiple puppets and cameras for true cinematic freedom.</p>
<p>Availability and Pricing</p>
<p>The shareware version of PuppetTime Producer is available for US$89.00 from<br />
the company's website at (<a href="http://www.puppettime.com" title="http://www.puppettime.com">http://www.puppettime.com</a>). Academic pricing is<br />
available at $495.00 for a 10-seat license, with additional seats at $49.00<br />
each. Volume and site licenses are also available. Additional characters<br />
are currently available free of charge.</p>
<p>About the Partners</p>
<p>PuppetTime, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, develops and<br />
markets Web 3D animation software for web content design, creative<br />
visualization, business presentations, and education curriculum development.</p>
<p>Founded in 1985, Prosoft Engineering, Inc. has helped some of the largest<br />
names in Software develop their most successful products. Prosoft<br />
Engineering offers a wide range of software development and testing<br />
services for Macintosh, Windows and Unix. Headquartered in Pleasanton,<br />
California, Prosoft Engineering maintains a web site at <a href="http://www.prosofteng.com" title="www.prosofteng.com">www.prosofteng.com</a>.</p>
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