At SIGGRAPH 2000, Discreet will show its breadth of products and solutions that make it the world's leading developer of content creation tools in the entertainment industry from onscreen-to-onair-to online.

Content creation designers, compositors, and visual effects artists at SIGGRAPH will have the opportunity to see Discreet's combustion*, an exciting new paint and 3D compositing solution for Macintosh and NT desktops, as well as innovative new 3D character animation technology with a new release of Character Studio, and a glimpse at version 4 of 3D Studio MAX. Discreet also plans to announce new partnership opportunities that involve bringing rich media to the Web.

"We firmly believe Discreet is better placed than anyone else to shape the future of digital content creation for television, film, the Internet, or games," said Godfrey Sullivan, general manager and executive vice president of Discreet. "We are established leaders in both 2D and 3D content creation, and continue to set the market pace with expanded 3D partnerships and internal technical innovations that truly position Discreet as a definitive market leader with comprehensive Web content creation, authoring, publishing and distribution solutions."

Discreet will highlight their newest visual effects product, combustion*, for both Windows NT and MAC. Embodying the Discreet "artist interface," combustion* provides artists with streamlined methods of designing, viewing and compositing visual effects, complemented with a full suite of paint, animation and visual effects tools. Digital artists and animators can use a combination of combustion*, edit*, and 3D Studio MAX for professional desktop production.

3D for the Next Generation Developers of Next Generation game titles, animation, and 3D Web content will have the opportunity to see what the latest offerings from 3D Studio MAX, Character Studio and Lightscape. Developers of interactive digital entertainment can see how real-time Bezier surface-based Characters, MAXScript level editing tools, and radiosity delivers creative power and extensibility for compelling surface-based character creation, animation, export, and interactive playback. With Open Source code and samples, 3D Studio MAX and Character Studio clearly offer advanced openness and value to both artists and programmers of Next Generation Console Games, and PlayStation 2 in particular.

Streaming to the web Discreet will demonstrate innovative new Web streaming capabilities that efficiently integrate the steps of creation, authoring and publishing of streaming media to the Internet, while ensuring the highest quality and most creative results. Together with neptune*, Discreet's code-named Internet product initiative for desktop content creation and Web streaming, artists use Discreet's industry leading editing, effects and animation tools to master a project. Using neptune*'s delivery optimization processing, the artist can then create multiple versions of their content in popular industry standard Web formats. Initially, neptune* will be integrated with Discreet's award winning NT-based nonlinear editing system, edit* v6, due for shipment Fall 2000.

A complete 2D/3D production environment for digital artists Discreet continues their commitment to deliver a wide range of elements integrated solutions provide the creativity and return-on-investment for the entertainment, content creation, and games markets. Discreet's family of products supports film, HDTV and TV to Digital Video and web-video. All products are open and resolution-independent, providing end-to-end connectivity and integration for streamlined production. Discreet leadership in compositing and animation is acknowledged through the industry's best implementation of complete 2D/3D integration. Discreet also continues to pioneer strategic relationships with partners and plug-in strategies to provide more value for their customers securing their investment now and into the future.

About Discreet
Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc., is a leader in digital content creation, management, and distribution tools. Discreet develops systems and software for visual effects, 3D animation, editing, and production used in the creation of digital moving pictures for feature films, video, HDTV, broadcast graphics, interactive games, and the Web. Discreet products are used extensively in film and video post-production, games and multimedia, broadcast graphics, programming, and onair event coverage. For more information, contact any Authorized Discreet Reseller, visit www.discreet.com. Autodesk shares are traded on the NASDAQ national market under the symbol ADSK.

 

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