17.04.03
NewTek Europe at 3D Festival 2003 |
NewTek Europe will be attending,
sponsoring and hosting at this year's event.
17th April 2003, Bordeaux:
NewTek Europe is hosting a user meeting for the evening
of the 7th May after the Lord of the Rings
conference at 3D Festival in order to bring users
of NewTek products together. The first ever public
presentation of the Video Toaster [3] in Europe and
a demo of LightWave will be followed by nibbles and
drinks. William "Proton" Vaughan and Ben "no nickname"
Vost will be on hand to chat to users of LightWave
about their uses of the software and to share a beer
or two with attendees. Anyone interested in attending
should register now at the NewTek Europe website.
Early registrants will be entered into a draw to
win
a copy of LightWave 7.5, NewTek's award-winning 3D
animation package.
NewTek Europe managing director
Franck Lafage says "We feel that the unique community
feel of the 3D Festival is a great match for us with
our focus on the users of our products and we feel
it's natural to be hosting our user event here."
In addition to our user meeting
we are pleased to be sponsoring the highly entertaining
"History of 3D Graphics" evening - an event planned
in conjunction with the influential 3D World magazine
and recounting the tale behind the progress of and
increasing reliance on CG for all kinds of short-form
and long-form projects in the cinema and on television
today. Hosted by Jim Thacker, editor of 3D World magazine;
Isaac Kerlow, well-known Disney animator and other
3D greats, the evening event will be a look back at
the things that have made CG great. "This is going
to be one hell of a cool event", says Leonard Teo,
Managing Director of CGNetworks. "It's not every day
that you get three industry luminaries (Isaac Kerlow,
Rob Coleman and Jeff Kleiser) in the same room, explaining
to you HOW 3D came to be. We're extremely happy to
be part of this event with NewTek and 3D World."
The grand finale of the evening
will be an account of the ten most influential CG
events so far, as chosen by visitors to CGTalk. NewTek
Europe will be presenting a copy of LightWave 7.5
along with a set of five training DVDs by the well-known
animator Todd Grimes to the winners of the draw among
voters for the most influential CG ever in the poll
conducted by CGTalk at http://www.cgtalk.com/history3d/.
For further details contact
us on : +33 (0)557 262 262 or
ben.vost@newtek-europe.com
About NewTek
With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is
a leading provider of full-featured video editing,
animation and special effects tools including Video
Toaster®, LightWave 3D® and Aura Video Paint™.
NewTek launched the desktop video revolution in 1990
with the release of the legendary Video Toaster. The
company’s products are used worldwide on projects
ranging from home video to feature film. Recent film
and television projects using NewTek software include
We Were Soldiers, Panic Room, Hart’s War, Driven,
A.I., Oscar®-nominated Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius,
Final Fantasy, Black Hawk Down, The Time Machine,
Black Knight, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The
6th Day, Jurassic Park III, Behind Enemy Lines, X-Men
The Movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Director’s
Edition DVD, Pitch Black, Dracula 2000, Children of
Dune, Star Trek: Enterprise, Roughnecks: Starship
Troopers, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine, The X-Files, The Family Guy, Ally McBeal, Dawson’s
Creek and Family Law. Recent game titles include Deus
Ex, Serious Sam I and II, Twisted Metal: Black, Civilization
III, Unreal, Quake 3 Arena, Moto Racer World Tour,
Giants for PS2, Baldur’s Gate II, EverQuest,
Planescape: Torment, Dead To Rights, and Escape >From
Monkey Island.
Contact NewTek
Europe at 17 avenue Leonard de Vinci, Europarc, 33600
Pessac, France.
Phone: +33 (0) 557 262 262, fax: +33 (0) 557 262 261,
website: http://www.newtek-europe.com
