NewTek Releases Sixth Free Texture Collection

Set of Fifty New Images Brings Free Resource for All Digital Artists to 300 High Resolution Textures

San Antonio, Texas – December 23, 2004 -- NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products, today announced a holiday gift for the community of digital artists - the release of the sixth edition of NewTek's free Texture Collection. As with previous editions, this new set includes fifty high-resolution textures available for free download at NewTek.com. The total number of free textures available from NewTek is now at 300. The sixth edition of the texture collection contains images in the categories Concrete, Nature, Soil, Stone and Wood, and most images in this latest set are at even higher pixel resolutions than NewTek's first five sets.

"We all know how important surfacing is to great 3D. I'm glad to see NewTek continuing to provide such great resources, like all these high resolution textures, to the community," said Layne Smith, Graphics and Multimedia Director at The Dallas Morning News. "They're also fantastic reference studies when accuracy is crucial. Anyone from any skill level will get something from these. This kind of support from NewTek, coupled with its competitive pricing and extremely helpful user community, is what makes NewTek the best 3D company around."

All textures are unretouched photographic images. The first 250 in the collection offer a resolution of 1600 pixels x 1200 pixels resolution. For the sixth set, most are at a resolution of 2304 x 1728, with a few images at lower resolutions. The textures are provided in JPEG format, for efficient download. The first five editions of the texture collection have been overwhelmingly popular, with tens of thousands of downloads since they were originally posted. NewTek plans to release additional sets of high-resolution textures from time to time and participants can sign up for notification of the release of new sets.

Pricing and Availability
NewTek's Texture Collection, Sixth Edition, is available for free download at: http://www.newtek.com/freestuff.

About NewTek
With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is a leading provider of full-featured video editing, animation and special effects tools including VT[4](TM), and LightWave 3D®, winner of the 2003 Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award. NewTek launched the desktop video revolution in 1990 with the release of the legendary Video Toaster®. The company's products are used worldwide on projects ranging from home video to feature film. Recent television and film projects using NewTek software include Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, "I, Robot", Spiderman 2, The Manchurian Candidate, Exorcist: The Beginning, Garfield, Hellboy, Van Helsing, Triplets of Belleville, The Last Samurai, Torque, Children of Dune, Battlestar: Galactica, Firefly, Taken, Smallville, Star Trek: Enterprise, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, Matrix Reloaded, Collateral Damage, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Agent Cody Banks, Daredevil, Spy Kids II, Oscar®-nominated Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Final Fantasy, Blackhawk Down and Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director’s Edition DVD. Recent game titles include Doom III, Unreal Tournament, Serious Sam for XBox, Age of Mythology, Civilization III, Dead to Rights, Baldur's Gate II, EverQuest and Escape From Monkey Island. Website: http://www.newtek.com

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