Creative Cow Master Series Offers Expert Video Training DVD: particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1: The Fusion of Adobe After Effects and wondertouch particleIllusion

Esteemed Animator and Educator Aharon Rabinowitz Hosts Comprehensive Tutorial of Essential Processes, Together with Tips and Techniques for Working with Leading Visual Effects Creation and Motion Graphics Applications

St. Louis (June 14, 2005) - wondertouch™, a leading developer of high performance visual effects software tools is pleased to announce particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1: The Fusion of Adobe After Effects and wondertouch particleIllusion, a new video training DVD from CreativeCow.net. The first title in the new Creative Cow Master Series of expert training products, 'particleIllusion Fusion' is designed to teach experienced and beginning level users of particleIllusion™ - wondertouch's award-winning, sprite-based particle effects software application - how to work efficiently with After Effects, Adobe's leading motion graphics and visual effects software.

The tutorial is hosted and written by Aharon Rabinowitz, an accomplished educator, animator and particleIllusion Creative Cow Forum Leader. Known for his visually stunning, technically compelling animation, particleIllusion and After Effects expertise, and succinct and humorous communication skills, Rabinowitz brings a thorough and uniquely entertaining style to the series.

According to wondertouch President Alan Lorence, a large percentage of particleIllusion users successfully use it as a companion product with After Effects, creating their particles in particleIllusion, rendering out video elements, and then compositing footage together with whatever After Effects elements they are working with. Situations do arise, however, in which particleIllusion artists are forced to use 'work arounds' to effectively integrate the rendered particles into After Effects. Using work arounds requires a more in-depth knowledge of the software.

"We are delighted that Creative Cow has issued this quality tutorial that promises to provide enormous workflow insights and practical tips to our customers using After Effects," said Lorence. "Aharon's incredible work as a particleIllusion animator, his feedback over the years suggesting ways to incorporate After Effects-friendly features into particleIllusion product development, and his very entertaining style make him the ideal host to provide content creators with this comprehensive look at how to easily and successfully integrate both applications."

"The tutorial is 'jam-packed' with answers to many of the most common questions I've seen posted on the particleIllusion Cow Forum with respect to After Effects, and also attempts to elevate users' understanding of fairly complex concepts such as displacement maps, slow motion effects, and 3D position matching. More importantly, these tutorials focus on overcoming some of the current inconsistencies between two exceptionally powerful software systems," outlines Rabinowitz.

"We couldn't be more proud to have Aharon as the first contributor to the Creative Cow Master Series of training products. Aharon's work with wondertouch's particleIllusion is unparalleled, as is his ability to communicate his knowledge in an entertaining, educative way," adds Kathlyn Lindeboom, director, CreativeCow.net.

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 CreativeCow.net

CreativeCow.net is the Internet's most trafficked and respected media professionals community site. Its more than 130 professionally led forums communities are hosted by more internationally respected experts, authors and major industry award-winners than any other site in its market. With page views that have ranged as high as 11 million pages in a month, Creative Cow is a vital resource for those in the fields of film and video, animation and effects, audio and other related fields such as DVD authoring and production.

For additional information on Creative Cow and particleIllusion Fusion, visit www.creativecow.net and www.pillusionfusion.com, respectively.

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 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.