wondertouch particleIllusion 3.0 Heralded as Technology Innovator in
Videomaker Magazine's '2004 Best Products of the Year' awards'
St. Louis (December 1, 2004) - wondertouch, a leading software developer
specializing in affordable, high performance particle effects creation tools
for the visual effects industry, today announced that particleIllusion 3.0,
its flagship, sprite-based software application, was recognized as the "Most
Innovative Software" in the prestigious Videomaker Magazine
'2004 Best Products of the Year' awards.
The "Best Products of the Year" award was launched by Videomaker 20 years ago
to offer its professional readership informed judgment about the best video
production products on the market and provide a service to those involved in
technology purchasing decisions. The Awards measure technologies that have
undergone product reviews by the magazine's review staff in the areas of
ease-of-operation, affordability, quality, innovation, dependability,
empowerment and performance.
"Our panel of judges considers wondertouch's particleIllusion 3.0 an
amazingly cool and almost effortless special effects tool that that delivers
true innovation," said Joe McCleskey. "We are pleased that a relatively new
and growing company like wondertouch has thrown its hat into the video
effects ring to offer a product that delivers the performance that video
production professionals require."
"wondertouch is honored to be recognized by Videomaker for product
innovation," said Alan Lorence, president, wondertouch. "With this award we
wish to acknowledge the incredible work of the growing community of
particleIllusion users whose stellar work in video production and support of
the product help us to provide artists with easy-to-use and reliable
production tools."
A review of particleIllusion 3.0 will appear in the December issue of
Videomaker. In February, the magazine's '2004 Best Product of the Year' Award
win will be announced. The Award announcement will also be posted online at
www.videomaker.com.
About particleIllusion
particleIllusion is a standalone particle effects application designed as an
easy-to-use, affordable, high performance tool to quickly and simply add
particle effects to any image, animation, or video footage. particleIllusion
features an ever-growing collection of over 1200 preset effects such as
smoke, fire, explosions, water effects, sparkles, colorful artistic effects,
and many others. particleIllusion features OpenGL hardware acceleration to
provide real-time (or near real-time) previews of most effects and ultra-fast
rendering of final output. Installed at leading worldwide production
facilities, particleIllusion has been used in hundreds of feature films,
television episodes, broadcast commercials, computer game titles and Web
graphics projects.
About wondertouch
wondertouch, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., is a software developer
specializing in particle effects for the visual effects industry. The
company's flagship product, particleIllusion, a sprite-based particle effects
application is focused towards the needs of creative professionals working in
film post-production and pre-visualization, standard and HD video, commercial
broadcast and Web graphics industries.
wondertouch software products are available directly from wondertouch.
Additional information on wondertouch can be obtained on the Web at
www.wondertouch.com
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