March 1, 1995 Topeka, KS--Interplay Productions today announced that NewTek's LightWave 3D has become a critical component in their 3D animation system for video game development. Interplay is known for the development and distribution of games such as Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Descent.
"After evaluating LightWave 3D, we realized just how much we could improve our productivity. We were surprised at how quickly our animators were able to learn the system," said Rob Nesler Art Director of 3D Technologies for Interplay Productions. "Within a couple of days the guys were making some really impressive images."
"NewTek Inc. is excited about the game market," said Brad Peebler, Product Manager of the LightWave Group. "We're to talking to a lot of game manufacturers about their participation in designing custom plug-in tools. These plug-ins will make it a whole lot easier to produce games."
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"With LightWave's plug-in architecture, new features will be a snap," said Arnie Cachelin, Director of Plug-ins for the LightWave Group. "I look forward to working with all our game company developers to create new features tailored to the game market."
Other game companies who have started using LightWave include Westwood Studios, Origin Games, Merit Software and Blue Sky Sega. Many companies are seeing the obvious advantages of the LightWave system: an efficient polygonal modeler, support of multiple-sided polygons, up to 65,000 points per polygon, the new Metaform tool that allows you to create high-resolution objects for 2D artwork while keeping a low-resolution cage for the real-time 3D game play, easy texture mapping, and wide variety of output formats.
NewTek will be demonstrating LightWave 3D and the Video Toaster for Windows April 10-13 in the Las Vegas Convention Center Booth #15171 and in the Video Toaster User Pavilion in the Multimedia hall.
For more information on LightWave contact NewTek, Inc. customer service at 1-800-847-6111.
