3D Artists Get Opportunity to Try Award-Winning LightWave 3D® with Special 495 €+ VAT(£339+VAT) Pricing on Full Commercial Licenses

San Antonio, Texas - March 1, 2005 -- NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products, today announced a limited time, best-ever competitive upgrade offer for LightWave 3D. Users of a select set of 3D graphics and design applications will be able to purchase a competitive upgrade to LightWave 3D for 495 €+VAT (UK price : £339+VAT) including printeddocumentation. Current users of LightWave 3D will be able to add an additional seat at this price as well, allowing them to affordably run the software on multiple computers. The promotions are available today from NewTek Europe authorized resellers, or directly from NewTek Europe through April 30, 2005.

Owners of competing products now have an excellent opportunity to complement their current toolset with NewTek's powerful products. Unlike recent competitive upgrade offerings from other manufacturers, purchasers will not have to retire their current application or tool to take advantage of these offers. Proven for years in television, film, and games, LightWave 3D is also being used to create graphics for print, web, industrial design, architecture, medical imaging, and many other applications.

A full, robust program, LightWave 3D includes many of the tools that others sell separately, such as hard- and soft-body dynamics, Cloth dynamics, particles, hair and fur, plus unlimited render nodes, to name a few. LightWave is also nearing release in a 64-bit version, and registered owners of the current version of LightWave will be invited to participate in an upcoming qualified beta program, and will also be eligible to download the shipping version of LightWave 64 at no additional charge.

"I didn’t really get 'into' LightWave until I came on to Andromeda. I was reluctant at first, because I wasn’t familiar with what LightWave was capable of," said Bruce Turner, VFX Supervisor for Andromeda Productions, producers of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, which garnered LEO and Gemini award nominations for Special Visual Effects in 2004 for two episodes of the series. "Once things got going, I realized pretty quickly that LightWave was, in fact, the perfect tool for our show. I’d say our favorite part of LightWave’s superhero abilities has been its low-maintenance personality. We can spend the time on the shots instead of on the software. And around here, time is always at a premium."

Pricing and Availability

LightWave 3D Full Competitive Upgrade (including English printed manual) is available for 495 €+VAT (UK price : £339+VAT), for registered owners of Maya™, Softimage™, XSI, 3ds max®., Electric Image™, Strata Studio Pro, Cinema 4D™, Truespace™, Hash Animation Master™, Autocad®, Pro/Engineer® and SolidWorks®. Proof of ownership required to qualify. Registered LightWave and Video Toaster owners will also be able to purchase an additional seat of LightWave at the 495 €+VAT (UK RRP: £339+VAT) price. An electronic version (without printed manual) of the competitive LightWave upgrade is also available at 425 €+VAT (UK RRP: £295+VAT) This special offer is available through April 30, 2005, from any Authorized NewTek Europe Reseller, from NewTek Europe's web site at
http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/shop/index.html
or by calling +33 (0)5 57 262 262 .
Find a local NewTek Europe Authorized Reseller at
http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/purchase/resellers.html.

About NewTek and NewTek Europe.

Sited near Bordeaux in the southwest of France, NewTek Europe has been the European branch of NewTek, Inc. since 1999 for distribution, communication, and the technical support of NewTek products throughout Europe, Russia, Africa and the Middle East.

NewTek, Inc., based in San Antonio, Texas, is one of the main players in the animation and special effects markets with LightWave 3D®, winner of the "2003 Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award" as well as the producers of video editing solution Video Toaster™.

NewTek was the instigator of the desktop video revolution with the launch of the legendary Video Toaster™ in 1990. This product has been in continuous use since then for video aficionados as well as for professional applications in the world of film.

Among the latest productions NewTek tools have helped with, you'll find: "I, Robot", Spiderman 2, The Manchurian Candidate, The Exorcist: The Beginning, Garfield, Hellboy, Van Helsing, les Triplettes de Belleville, The Last Samurai, Torque, The Children of Dune, Battlestar: Galactica, Firefly, Taken, Smallville, Star Trek : Enterprise, Matrix Reloaded, Collateral Damage, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Secret Agent: Cody Banks, Daredevil, Spy Kids II, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (nominated for an Oscar®), Final Fantasy, Blackhawk Down.

Latest game work includes: Doom III, Burnout 3, Killzone, The Moment of Silence, Unreal Tournament, Serious Sam, Age of Mythology, Civilization III, Dead to Rights, Baldur's Gate II and EverQuest.

Information about LightWave 3D^®:
http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/products/lightwave/index.html

LightWave 3D^® artists interviews:
http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/community/lightwave/index.html

LightWave 3D^® Projects List:
http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/products/lightwave/projects.html

--End--

- LightWave and LightWave 3D are registered trademarks of NewTek.
- VT[4], VT[4] Live, VT[4] Post, VT[3], VT[3] Live, VT[3] Post, VT[2], VT-Edit, Aura Video Paint, LightWave Express, VT-CG, VT-Vision VT-Scope, VT-DDR, Tool Shed, Tool Chest, SX-84, SX-8, RS-8, LScript, Digital Confusion, HyperVoxels, Endomorphs, Intelligentities, Motion Mixer, Morph Mixer, HardFX, SoftFX, ClothFX, MultiMeshes, Particle FX, P.A.V.L.O.V., Skelegons, SkyTracer, and Vmaps are trademarks of NewTek, Inc.
- All other products or brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Press contact:

Audrey-Jane Belin
Marketing & Communication Department
mail to: aj@newtek-europe.com

Newtek Europe
Europarc
17 avenue Léonard de Vinci
F-33600 PESSAC
Tel:+33 (0)5 57 262 262
Fax:+33 (0)5 57 262 261
www.newtek-europe.com

FOR GENERAL INFORMATION
Call +33 (0)5 57 262 262
Or email info@newtek-europe.com