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LightWave® Visual Effects Houses Bring Hyper-Reality to Box Office Smash "300"

San Antonio, Texas - March 15, 2007

NewTek video profile features artists discussing LightWave 3D® VFX work

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.lightwave3d.com

"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 makes really pretty pictures," comments Jeremy Hunt founder Screaming Death Monkey. "It can do straight out of the box a lot of really, really interesting stuff and it's fast, rendering is fast, set up and manipulation is fast. "I like LightWave because it's easy to use and can make really pretty pictures," comments Jeremy Hunt founder 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."

Pricing and Availability

NewTek products are distributed in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands by New Magic Australia. LightWave V9 is available now for $1299 (Aust$) for a single user license. LightWave V9 upgrades for existing LightWave owners are $649 (Aust$). For more information or to purchase contact New Magic. To locate a New Magic / NewTek Authorized Reseller click here.

Newtek in Australia and New Zealand

NewTek products are distributed in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands by New Magic Australia.

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About NewTek

With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is a leading provider of full-featured video editing, live production, presentation, animation and special effects tools including LightWave 3D®, winner of the 2003 Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award, 3D Arsenal™, TriCaster™ and VT[4]™. 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 television and film projects using NewTek production tools include 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.