wondertouch Expands Product Development Scope; Brings Particle Expertise to Wider Audience of Digital Content Creation Professionals

Las Vegas (April 18, 2005) - At the NAB 2005 convention, wondertouch™, a leading developer of high performance visual effects software tools, announced its commitment to digital content creation with a significant enhancement of its product development scope. Best-known as the innovators behind particleIllusion™, wondertouch is now leveraging its already significant particle expertise to bring a more expansive toolkit to DCC professionals working on ever-more-complex productions, especially enhancing workflow for artists working in cross-platform (2D and 3D) facilities.

Demonstrations of the wondertouch range of particle effects solutions will take place each day of the NAB convention - April 18- 21- at the wondertouch booth, SL #453, located in the South Hall, Lower Level.

"Today's DCC professionals are looking for new and better ways to manage workflow, together with the ever-increasing complexities of multi-platform facilities," says wondertouch President Alan Lorence. "In addition to our releases of new versions of particleIllusion for the Mac, wondertouch is now providing specific enhancements to our product offerings that add both creative and economic value to all manner of DCC professionals regardless of platform preference."

Already in use on countless film, television, video and game projects the world over, particleIllusion 3.0 for Windows was named "Most Innovative Software of 2004" by Videomaker Magazine. wondertouch kicked off 2005 by releasing particleIllusion 2.0 SE for Mac OSX, together with a particle emitters package for Motion, Apple's motion graphic design and production application. The 2.0 SE release permits users to leverage particleIllusion's robust and powerful 2D particle engine and a library of more than 750 customizable preset effects including smoke, fire, water and much more. The particle emitters package features a selection of more than 300 preset particle effects conveniently converted to operate in Motion.

wondertouch is currently completing two further releases of its flagship product particleIllusion, firming and enhancing the company's promise to offer reliable, top-quality solutions for innovative and efficient effects creation. This June, wondertouch is scheduled to release its highly anticipated new particleIllusion plug-in for Adobe After Effects, affording motion graphics and visual effects professionals with easy access to the powerful particleIllusion 3.0 software engine from directly within the After Effects environment. The following month, the company is scheduled to release particleIllusion 3.0 for Mac OSX, a 'must-have' for the dedicated community of wondertouch professionals working on Mac operating systems.

About particleIllusion

particleIllusion is a standalone particle effects application designed as an easy-to-use, low-cost, high performance tool to quickly and simply add particle effects to any image, animation, or video footage. particleIllusion features an ever-growing collection of hundreds of 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.

About wondertouch

wondertouch, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., is an award-winning 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 the film post-production and pre-visualization, standard and HD video, commercial broadcast, interactive game, 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.