Subject: SoftImage Info
From: Merle Ilgenfritz <[email-masked]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:29:47 -0500

I just received this info today and thought I would share it with everyone since
there were some questions about SoftImage recently:

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MICROSOFT RENDERS HIGH-END 3-D ANIMATION WITH SOFTIMAGE

Microsoft has begun shipping a new version of its 
award-winning 3-D modeling and animation software, 
Softimage 3D, for the Windows NT operating system. 
Softimage 3D 3.0 for Windows NT offers the same 
production-proven 3-D animation environment as Softimage 3D 
for Silicon Graphics systems, while delivering 
workstation-class performance at approximately 50 percent of 
the overall system cost. With this breakthrough in 
price/performance, more animators now can take advantage of 
high-end 3-D animation software.

Softimage products have helped create many of the world's 
most innovative, visual effects-rich productions, including 
films such as "Jurassic Park," The "Mask," "Jumanji" and  
"Casper"; commercials such as the Shell Dancing Gas Pumps; 
and interactive games such as Virtua Fighter and Daytona.  
Softimage has pioneered many of the advanced animation 
techniques that are used throughout the industry, including 
inverse kinematics, spline-based modeling and animation, and 
motion-capture technology.

SIMILAR PERFORMANCE AT ABOUT 50 PERCENT OVERALL SYSTEM COST

Softimage has worked closely with several hardware and 
graphics card manufacturers to optimize performance of 
Softimage 3D for Windows NT. Internal benchmark testing 
shows that Softimage 3D running on properly equipped Windows 
NT systems produces similar or better performance than 
traditional UNIX-based workstations that cost approximately 
twice as much.

For more info:
http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press
/1996/Jan96/3danimpr.htm

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