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Fork Particle Announces Fork Particle Studio Media FX
Enables artists to create post production particle system special effects for web, games, film, and broadcast

Pleasanton, California - August 11, 2005  –  Fork Particle Inc. today announced Fork Particle Studio Media FX. Following up swiftly on the release of Fork Particle 1.0, a special effects authoring studio catering specifically to game developers, the new release enables artists to create post-production special effects for the web, games, film, and broadcasting. The new release makes it easy for artists to harness cutting edge technologies for media production. The Fork Particle Studio Media FX rich feature set and easy to use interface reduces production time significantly and provides the creative freedom artists require to create spectacular special effects.

With the upcoming release, artists can work in the particle studio 3-D view-port environment to accurately author the behavior and placement of their effects, which can include sprites and 3-D model particles. They can also import background and 3-D environment models for reference or rendering. On the whole, on the base of the special effects authoring studio concept developed in the first release, the current version brings home to special effects artists in the media the latest and best that special effects technology has to offer.

Particle engine integrations with sophisticated physics engines—AGEIA physX and other commercial physics engines—incorporate advanced particle dynamics and precise collision detection to Fork Particle Studio Media FX. These options add to the palette of tools available to effects artists to go beyond traditional methods. Version control software integrations with Perforce and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe provide an efficient and professional work-flow environment.

Commenting on Fork Particle Studio Media FX, CEO and founder of Fork Particle, Noor Khawaja, said: “Efficiency in the creation of high quality special effects content is at the heart of Fork Particle Studio Media FX.” “With this release,” he added, “users from disparate fields will be able take their artistic expression and creativity to the next level, beyond dreams even; welcome to the next generation authoring software for particle system special effects!”

About Fork Particle
Fork Particle, Inc. develops state of the art particle system special effects middleware and authoring solution for game and media developers. For more information visit www.forkparticle.com.


Fork Particle and Fork Particle Studio Media FX are trademarks of Fork Particle, Inc. All other products are trademarks of their respective companies.