San Antonio, TX - March 15, 2007 -- NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products, today announced the release of a behind-the-scenes video featuring the creation of visual effects sequences for Warner Bros., "300", the visually stunning adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel. Creating over 200 visual effects shots, Pixel Magic and Screaming Death Monkey put the full feature set of LightWave 3D® to work creating everything from set extensions to living smoke, oceans, skies, helmets, shields, swords, arrows and armies. The video may be viewed by following this link: www.newtek-europe.com/uk/
community/lightwave/newtek_300/1.html

"The majority of the work we did in 3D was LightWave, for us it encompassed everything from the ocean and armies to spears, arrows and shields that the guys held and threw," said Ray McIntyre Jr., Pixel Magic visual effects supervisor. "We love the LightWave renderer. It makes beautiful, motion-picture quality images and it's fast."

"We are very excited to present this insight into how Pixel Magic and Screaming Death Monkey achieved these amazing effects," said Jay Roth, president of the NewTek 3D division. "These exceptional artists took total advantage of all of the strengths that LightWave 3D has to offer from stunning rendering to fast efficient modeling to a creative, flexible pool of talented artists."

"I like LightWave because it's easy to use and can make really pretty pictures," comments Jeremy Hunt, founder of Screaming Death Monkey. "Straight out of the box it can do a lot of really, really interesting stuff and it's fast. Rendering is fast, set up and manipulation is fast."
"We prefer LightWave over some of the other programs," said Tyler Foell, Pixel Magic in-house digital effects supervisor. "I think the advantage of using LightWave is that it's more of a generalist's tool, meaning one person can do so many things using LightWave, you can start with pre-vis and work all the way through, rather than having to specialize."

LightWave HD by 3D Storm is available until March 31st, 2007 at authorised NewTek resellers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and includes LightWave® v9, SpeedEDIT™ and LightWave 9 Defined for a suggested retail price of 795 €/£529 + VAT.

LightWave HD by 3D Storm is also available with the set of three printed LightWave® v9 manuals in English for a suggested retail price of 855 €/£569 + VAT. Registered owners of LightWave 3D® [8] or earlier are eligible to purchase an upgrade to LightWave® v9 (with printed documentation) along with SpeedEDIT™ and LightWave 9 Defined for 495 €/£329 + VAT.

For more information or to purchase, please visit http://www.newtek-europe.com or call NewTek Europe sales at +33 (0)557 262 262.To locate a NewTek Europe Authorized Reseller please visit
http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/purchase/resellers.html

NewTek's Lightwave is one of the most powerful, multi-platform, 3D modeling, animation, and digital effects programs available with one of the best professional native rendering on the market. The combination of the most complete professional toolset in the industry at the most affordable price makes NewTek's LightWave 3D® the best choice for any 3D job anywhere. Recent television and film projects using NewTek production tools include 300, The Guardian, Ant Bully, The DaVinci Code, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Serenity, Sin City, Fantastic Four, The 4400, Stargate: SG1, Stargate: Atlantis, Battlestar: Galactica, Prison Break, LOST, CSI, Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight, Recent game titles include Shadow of the Colossus, Black, Ridge Racer 6, Burnout Revenge, Driver: Parallel Lines, Quake IV and Heroes of Might and Magic 6.
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LightWave 3D® artists interviews:
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LightWave 3D® Projects List:
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San Antonio, Texas-based NewTek Inc., is a leading provider of full-featured video editing, live production, presentation and visual effects tools including LightWave 3D®, winner of the 2003 Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award, Video Toaster®, TriCaster™, TriCasterPRO™, SpeedEDIT™, and 3D Arsenal™ . Newtek Europe - 3D Storm, located near Bordeaux, France, is the NewTek distributor for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia.
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