wondertouch Offers Discreet combustion 3 Software Post Production Professionals More Than 50% Off on particleIllusion 3.0

Limited-time Promotion Allows Purchase of particleIllusion 3.0 at Reduced Price of $179.00 through June 30, 2004

ST. LOUIS, MO - (May 20, 2004) - wondertouch™, a leading software developer specializing in affordable, high performance particle effects tools for the visual effects industry, today announced a special limited-time upgrade promotion that allows registered owners of the Discreet combustion 3 software program to receive more than 50% off the USMSRP of particleIllusion™ 3.0, the latest version of the company's cornerstone, sprite-based particle effects software application. The promotion - which ends June 30, 2004 - enables combustion 3 owners to purchase the standalone version of particleIllusion 3.0 for Windows, at a reduced price of $179.00, a savings of $220.00.

Designed as an easy-to-use, low-cost, high performance tool to efficiently and easily customize and modify effects, or create entirely new and realistic particle effects to any image, animation, or video footage, particleIllusion has been used over the past three years in hundreds of feature films, TV episodes, and broadcast commercials worldwide. In 2001 the wondertouch development team integrated the particleIllusion 2.0 engine into combustion 2 to provide creatives easy access to its powerful particle effects. combustion 3, the latest version of Discreet's leading visual effects and 3D compositing desktop software, still contains the particleIllusion 2.0 engine.

"Although particleIllusion is still integrated into combustion, it is an older, less-capable version of the software," said Alan Lorence, president of wondertouch. "With this promotional offer demanding artists seeking to create quality effects quickly and easily will be able to immediately reap the advantages of the fully-featured standalone version of particleIllusion 3.0 - which include a host of productivity enhancements - at a fraction of the cost."

The standalone application of particleIllusion 3.0 offers combustion 3 users several advantages, including:

• Speed acceleration: the particles in particleIllusion 3.0 run faster than those in combustion, even with multiple emitters running on modest OpenGL hardware.
• Forces: Influence particles after they are created, to create wind effects for example.
• Super emitters: allows for the automatic creation of emitters to create other emitters, to achieve new levels of realism and creativity.
• New color options: includes the ability to get the particle color from the background footage, allowing for a wide variety of artistic and simulated displacement effects, as well as a new "don't erase" function which essentially allows you to "paint" with particles.
• Library manager: allows easy movement of emitters between libraries and quick access to any libraries on one's computer.
• New emitter libraries: wondertouch releases a new emitter library for particleIllusion 3.0 every month. Over 350 emitters have been released for particleIllusion 3.0 in the past year, providing new users of particleIllusion 3.0 with a huge set of new effects to use immediately.

The wondertouch promotion enables qualified customers who can demonstrate proof of ownership of combustion 3 to buy particleIllusion 3.0 for Windows at $179.00. This promotion is available directly through wondertouch from:

About Discreet combustion

Discreet combustion software is a paint, animation, editing and 3D compositing software for Windows and Macintosh, combined in an integrated environment based on Discreet's legendary user interface. combustion 3 is the best solution for creating effects and motion graphics for video, film, DVD, and the web. www.discreet.com

About wondertouch

wondertouch is a software developer specializing in particle effects for the visual effects industry. The company's flagship product, particleIllusion, is focused towards the needs of creative professionals working in the film post-production and pre-visualization, standard and HD video and commercial broadcast industries.

wondertouch founder Alan Lorence was the original programmer for Impulse's Illusion software. After acquiring rights for Illusion in July 2002, the company was established to continue the development, sale and support of the product under the name 'particleIllusion.'

wondertouch software products are currently available directly from wondertouch. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, Mo.