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(July 20, 1999)

Studio Artist Featured at MacWorld Town Hall Meeting

Apple Master Artist Paul Davis Demostrates Studio Artist, The Innovative New Graphics Software from Synthetik Software

New York, NY, July 20, 1999-- Studio Artist, the world's first Graphics Synthesizer, an intelligent painting, drawing, image and video processing program will be featured at the MacWorld Town Hall Meeting today.

Well-known Apple Master digital artist, Paul Davis demonstrates the first public showing of Studio Artist, the innovative smart graphics software from Synthetik Software, Inc. Mr. Davis will demonstrate the Intelligent -Assistedª auto-rotoscoping feature contained in Studio Artist.

Studio Artist's auto-rotoscoping feature is the first of it's kind, enabling automated hand-painted and/or processed re-rendering of QuickTime movies in a style of the user's choice. The program uses human visual modeling to construct an internal representation of the contents of each movie frame. Studio Artist then intelligently draws or paints each frame just like a real artist would, generating an animation or video sequence with a hand drawn look. A built in Paint and Graphics Synthesizer allows each frame to be rendered in an unlimited range of potential visual styles.

"We'll be seeing Studio Artist's auto-rotoscoping effects all over the media in 6 months," said Joe Beiny of Outpost Film Center in San Francisco. "I'm glad I'll be one of the first to show off what this software can do."

Developed by Synthetik Software Inc., Studio Artist is an innovative new full featured program for computer artists and creative professionals. The program combines dynamic user-configurable painting and drawing tools along with a complete image processing and video effects suite. A unique hybrid imaging model allows individual paint strokes to have the visual richness of raster paint with the editability of vector paths. Dynamic expressive paint tools or custom art processes can easily be constructed and applied to still images or motion sequences. Users can either paint and draw manually or direct Studio Artist's automatic Intelligent-Assisted painting actions.