ARISTEN’S LAUNCHES SPECIAL EFFECTS SEQUENCER
FXSTUDIO™
FOR PC AND XBOX® 360
Aristen Just Approved by
SONY for PlayStation® 3 Development
BELLEVUE, WA – OCTOBER 6,
2008 --
Aristen, Inc. today
announced the launch of FxStudio™ Creativity Suite, its cross-platform special
effects sequencing solution for the PC and Xbox 360.
The company also revealed it has been approved by SONY for development on
the PS3.
“We
invited game teams and game engine developers (for integration) visiting our
Austin GDC booth a chance to sign up for an evaluation copy and the response was
amazing,” said Aristen CEO Andrew Kaplan.
“Over 35 companies signed up during the two day show, and many of them
were the top studios in the business.”
FxStudio Creativity Suite includes:
FxStudio Designer
is a full-featured special effect sequencing tool; artists familiar with
time-based sequencing tools such as Adobe’s Premiere will feel right at home.
FxStudio Processor
is a standalone data processing module that strips tool-specific data from
source files and outputs a packed data format targeting specific destination
platforms.
FxStudio Preview
drives productivity and quality by elimination iteration time.
Effect sequences are created and evaluated in near-real time.
FxStudio Runtime
creates and manages special effect instances.
Platform-specific runtime modules provide the API and data-management
facilities.
FxStudio Creativity Suite was built using a modular design with true
multi-platform support designed from the ground up.
Artists can build singular effects and specialize properties as needed on
a per-platform basis.
Toby
Gladwell, Aristen’s CTO and, said, “Our goal in creating FxStudio was to provide
artists, engineers, and producer with the technology to create special effects
quickly and efficiently.” He also
noted that Aristen’s is a Certified Partner of Emergent Game Technologies and
FxStudio is being integrated into Emergent’s award-winning Gamebryo platform.
For
more information about FxStudio, visit
www.aristen.com and www.fxstudio.com,
or contact sales@aristen.com.
ABOUT THE ARISTEN TEAM
Aristen
co-founders Gladwell and Kaplan serve as Chief Technical Officer and Chief
Executive Officer, respectively.
Gladwell is credited as a developer on several
titles including The Matrix Online,
Shogo: Mobile Armor™,
Blood,
Sanity,
No One Lives Forever™,
MechWarrior® 2 Titanium Pack, and the
LithTech™ engine. Kaplan was
Monolith’s engineer on Aliens Versus
Predator™ II, a science fiction first-person
computer game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Sierra,
and as a Lead Engineer on Monolith’s The
Matrix Online.
ABOUT ARISTEN
Aristen, Inc. is a leading developer of creativity enabling tools and middleware
for the interactive entertainment software market.
Aristen licenses FxStudio, a cross-platform special effects sequencing
suite designed and developed to allow game developers to craft world class
visual, auditory, and tactile experiences.
For more information please visit the Aristen website at
www.aristen.com.
FxStudio
is a trademark of Aristen, Inc.
All other company and product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Media Contact:
Doug Mealy, Online Marketing
and Public Relations, www.om-pr.com.