NewTek LightWave 3D® Now Shipping with Kaydara FBX™

Opens Door to New Pipeline and Content Options For LightWave 3D® Users

SAN ANTONIO - July 23, 2002 - Kaydara Inc. and NewTek Inc. announced today at SIGGRAPH 2002 the full integration of Kaydara's versatile FBX™ 3D interchange format into LightWave 3D®, NewTek's powerful 3D modelling, texturing, rendering, and 3D animation tool. Kaydara FBX allows for the universal interchange of 3D data between every major 3D package on the market and a significant number of second-tier applications. Support for FBX in LightWave 3D® gives NewTek's users in the film, broadcast, games, and new media industries access to the wealth of content available through the Kaydara's extensive network of FBX partners.

FBX has quickly become the leading 3D File Interchange Format. It provides a powerful new way of working with 3D content from a wide variety of applications and source material providers. FBX allows users to maximize their content creation pipeline by letting them create cutting edge content without having to worry about inter-package compatibility.

"A primary strength of LightWave 3D® is the ease in which it fits into production pipelines with other applications," said Dr. Andrew Cross, senior vice president of engineering for NewTek. "Adding support for the FBX file format will provide a new dimension to this production process. Content producers can now add LightWave 3D®'s powerful content creation and rendering capabilities to other 3D animation solutions, such as MOTIONBUILDER™, providing instant access to a wider variety of existing content."

LightWave 3D® is an award winning 3D software equally at home for games, film, broadcast, print and new media, and available for both Windows and Mac. LightWave® is used world-wide by creative artists who want the easiest to use and most complete 3D toolset of any off-the-shelf 3D application, with unequalled render quality and at an affordable price.

"NewTek is a leader in the 3D tools market," said Jean-Jacques Hermans, senior strategic advisor for Kaydara. "LightWave® has proven itself time and time again to be a powerful tool for content creation. The Kaydara FBX combined with LightWave® will allow 3D artists to have access to a wide range of FBX content allowing them to achieve a new level of flexibility and creativity in their work."

For more information about Kaydara FBX, visit www.kaydara.com/fbx.

About Kaydara Inc.
Over the course of the past decade, Kaydara has become a leader in the development of real-time 3D animation software solutions for the entertainment industry. Kaydara's product portfolio serves a vast and varied range of clients in the TV, film, game development, and Web content industries, including Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Midway Games, Acclaim, Mainframe Entertainment, Capcom, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Kaydara, Inc., is headquartered in Montréal, Canada, and has an international presence with sales offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information about Kaydara or its products, visit www.kaydara.com.

About NewTek
With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is a leading provider of full-featured video editing, animation and special effects tools including the VT®, LightWave 3D® and Aura. NewTek launched the desktop video revolution in 1990 with the release of the legendary VT®. The company's products are used worldwide on projects ranging from home video to feature film. Recent film and television projects using NewTek software include We Were Soldiers, Panic Room, Hart's War, Driven, A.I., Oscar®-nominated Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Final Fantasy, Blackhawk Down, The Time Machine, Black Knight, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The 6th Day, Jurassic Park III, Behind Enemy Lines, X-Men The Movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Director's Edition DVD, Pitch Black, Dracula 2000, Star Trek: Enterprise, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The X-Files, The Family Guy, Ally McBeal, Dune: The Miniseries, Dawson's Creek and Family Law. Recent game titles include Deus Ex, Serious Sam I and II, Twisted Metal: Black, Civilization III, Unreal, Quake 3 Arena, Moto Racer World Tour, Giants for PS2, Baldur's Gate II, EverQuest, Planescape: Torment, Dead To Rights, and Escape From Monkey Island. Contact NewTek at 5131 Beckwith Blvd, San Antonio, TX, 78249. Phone: 210-370-8000, fax: 210-370-8001, website: http://www.newtek.com.

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