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Adobe
www.adobe.com
- One (1) copy of Creative Suite 3, Production Premium (per city)
Description: Maximize your productivity with the complete and
integrated post-production collection for Mac and Windows. Tighter than
ever integration among Adobe's all-new video, audio, and design tools
help ensure fluidity in every aspect of your workflow.
Value: $1,699
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MAXON
www.maxon.net
- One (1) copy of CINEMA 4D + MoGraph (per city)
Description: CINEMA 4D has everything to satisfy your professional 3D
modeling, texturing, animating and rendering needs. It's fast, stable,
powerful, and delivers dazzling imagery. CINEMA 4D offers customizable
configuration suitable for any industry and all skill levels. With the
MoGraph module you can clone numerous objects and create extruded text
with just a few simple clicks, or add effectors into the mix and put
everything in motion and much more, often without a single keyframe!
Value: $1,290
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Intel
www.intel.com/partner
- One (1) Professional Laptop (one for the entire tour)
Description: Intel has generously provided the cash to purchase a
professional grade laptop. This laptop will be given away as part of
the post show follow-up. This prize will include a copy of CINEMA 4D +
MoGraph and Adobe's CS3 Production Premium. All attendees from all
cities will be eligible. Details on this prize and how to win will be
available at each event.
Value: Up to $8,000
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nVidia
www.nvidia.com
- One (1) Quadro FX 3700 professional graphics card (per city)
Description: The new NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 graphics board is a best-of-class solution
for CAD, DCC, and visualization professionals. It offers new levels of
performance and interactivity, enabling shorter production cycles, and
faster time to market. Utilize the groundbreaking NVIDIA unified
architecture, Shader Model 4.0 support for ultra-realistic, real-time
visualization, and GPU computing. Features 512MB memory, 256-bit memory
interface, 51.2GB/sec graphics memory bandwidth, PCI Express x16
graphics bus and PCI Express 2.0 compliance.
Value: $1,599
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Verbatim
www.verbatim.com
- One (1) VideoGard DVDR for each attendee
Description: 4.7GBs or 120 Minutes of write-once storage capacity, superior recording quality, and compatibility with 1X to 8X DVD-R hardware. Specifically developed for video recording and playback, Verbatim VideoGard™ has a protective disc coating applied to the recording surface safeguarding the disc from everyday handling.
- Two (2) 10-packs of DVDR DL (per city)
Description: DVD+R Double Layer nearly doubles the storage capacity with two AZO recording layers on a single-sided disc. tore up to 8.5GBs of video in approximately 16 minutes or less while maintaining compatibility with most DVD video players or DVD-ROM drives.
Value: $25 each
- Two (2) 10-packs VideoGard DVDR (per city)
Description: 4.7GB or 120 Minutes of write-once storage capacity, superior recording quality, and compatibility with 1X to 16X DVD+R writers. VideoGard™ has a protective disc coating applied to the recording surface safeguarding the disc from everyday handling.
Value: $15 each
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Artbeats
www.artbeats.com
- One (1) Artbeats Collection TBD (per city)
Description:Artbeats is an award-winning provider of royalty-free stock
footage for broadcast, feature films, commercial, multimedia, game
development and independent producers. The Artbeats library includes
nature, special effects, scenics, aerials, lifestyles, backgrounds and
much more. Free research from the company's knowledgeable service
representatives and access to online tutorials help customers locate
and make the most of their stock footage resources.
Value: $699
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Gridiron Software
www.gridironsoftware.com
- Two (2) copies of Nucleo Pro 2 (per city)
Description: Nucleo Pro 2 (due to ship in early summer 2007) will
support After Effects CS3 Professional and all versions of After
Effects 7. New features of Nucleo Pro 2 include the ability specify how
nested compositions are rendered and run renders of users favorite 3D
applications (including CINEMA 4D) in the Nucleo Pro Background Render
Queue.
Value: $395 each
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RE: Vision Effects
www.revisionfx.com
- One (1) copy of RE: Map (per city)
Description: RE:Map is the ultimate kit of mapping and distortion
tools. Render UV maps with CINEMA 4D and do the texture mapping
completely in post AE with RE:Map, fill all the stadium billboards,
dynamic screens action right into the compositing. You can use the
"Inverse UV" mapping tool to edit/refine textures maps in CINEMA 4D,
giving you an additional workflow option to an image editor like
Photoshop or a 3D paint like BodyPaint. RE:Map is a set of 5 plugins to
perform UV Mapping effects, Inverse UV Mapping, Stylized Distortions,
Displacement Mapping, Planar Mapping (inverse corner pinning).
RE:Vision Effects mapping rendering supports high quality filtering
(analytic anti-aliasing sub-pixel resampling to properly deal with UV
edges and crossing, supersampling and mipmapping).
Value: $149.95
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Digital Anarchy
www.digitalanarchy.com
- One (1) copy of 3D Assistants
Description: 3D Assistants: Arrange and Animate Your 3D Layers! The 3D
Assistants are powerful keyframing tools that allow you to easily
arrange, animate, and manage 3D-enabled layers in After Effects.
Animate the layers' position and orientation, or use two Assistants to
keyframe from 3D shape to 3D shape, with no added render time. Best of
all, you work directly within After Effects, so there is no added
render time or import issues.
Value: $200
- One (1) copy of Psunami
Description: Photoreal 3D Water Simulation & Effects! Psunami Water
is a photo-realistic 3D water simulation tool for After Effects and
Final Cut Pro. Psunami generates precise 3D geometry of an ocean
surface, then utilizes a powerful ray-tracing render engine to produce
ultra-realistic output. With Psunami Water, you will design and animate
beautiful oceanographic effects with render quality previously
available only in high-end 3D systems.
Value: $200
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Stash Magazine
http://www.stashmedia.tv/
- Four (4) Stash Magazine - Best of 2007 DVD (per city)
This superlative collection delivers 40 of the most inspired and spectacular commercials, music videos, virals, broadcast designs, game cinematics and short films of 2007. Carefully selected from over 2800 submissions by the editorial crew of Stash DVD Magazine, these fresh and surprising pieces are important not only for their creative and technical excellence but also for their ability to make us rethink what is possible in the world of animation and VFX.
Value: $39
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Cyberlink
http://www.cyberlink.com/
- Three (3) copies of PowerDVD (per city)
Description: Experience the best in video and audio entertainment. Feel the vibes with true home theater DTS and Dolby audio. Connect to your UPnP Network and playback media files. New and improved video technologies provide breathtaking quality.
Value: $49.95 each
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NTI (NewTech Infosystems)
http://www.ntius.com/
- Two (2) copies NTI Backup Now 5 Advanced (per city)
Description: NTI's newest version is the only backup software to provide completely modular upgrade path. Backup to Hard Drives, Flash Drives, CD, DVD or choose any attached drive letter.
Value: $49.99 each
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Cybermotion: Chris and Trish Meyer
www.cybmotion.com
- Five (5) copies of After Effects Apprentice for AE7 and CS3 (per city)
Description: After Effects Apprentice is aimed at those who want to get
up to speed quickly. This 320-page full color book contains a series of
12 lessons with numerous step-by-step exercises that will introduce you
to the core features in After Effects, including how to use them in the
real world. One entire lesson is devoted to three major new features in
AE CS3: Brainstorm, the Puppet Tool, and Shape Layers.
Value: $39.95 each
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