VENICE, Calif.--Nov. 25, 2002-- SplutterFish LLC, a high-end 3D rendering software solutions provider, today announced that its Brazil Rendering System™ has been honored by leading industry publication Animation Magazine, with its "Seal of Excellence Award."

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According to Bijan Tehrani, digital editor at Animation Magazine, the "Seal of Excellence" award was launched nearly two years ago to offer its professional readership a clear judgement about the best animation products on the market and provide a service to those involved in technology purchasing decisions. Each month the magazine receives requests to review between fifteen-to-twenty products. Of these, approximately six-to-eight are "pre-selected" for review, so that readers will receive information on the best of the products available.

The "Seal of Excellence" measures technologies that have undergone product reviews by the magazine's review staff. Products are judged in a number of key categories -- ease of use, interface, power of tools, quality and depth -- and given a rating from one-to-five points, five being the highest standard. The Award is given to products that receive perfect scores or near-perfect scores in each category.

"The `Seal of Excellence' has been awarded to Brazil r/s because it really deserves it," said Tehrani. "Among all the rendering packages we have tested at the magazine during the last six years, Brazil is without a doubt the fastest of them all.

"But beyond the Award, Brazil's quality and price/performance stands far ahead of any other products in this field," added Tehrani. "While there are products in the same price range, they don't match Brazil on quality. And, likewise, while there are renderers that have the same quality as Brazil r/s, the price is inaccessible to animation artists, especially those working in the gaming industry, one of the fastest-growing segments of the animation market."

"SplutterFish is honored to be recognized by Animation Magazine for product innovation and technical design," said Scott Kirvan, CEO at SplutterFish. "Our key focus is to empower artists with stable and reliable production tools so that they can spend their time creating, not wrestling with technology."

Animation Magazine's review of the Brazil Rendering System will appear in the December issue at which time the Award will be announced. It will also be posted online at www.animationmagazine.net.

About Brazil
Brazil r/s is an advanced, fully-integrated rendering suite for Discreet's top-selling animation software 3ds max and Autodesk VIZ, Autodesk's visualization solution. It is designed by and for production professionals as a powerful, flexible and affordable high-end commercial solution for film, broadcast and cross-visualization applications. It offers uncompromising image quality and addresses the need for the natural, streamlined workflow that CG artists demand.

Brazil r/s v 1.0's advanced arsenal includes: sophisticated filtering; anti-aliasing; highly-evolved illumination and shading models including super-fast raytracing; task-specific accelerators and shaders; state-of-the-art core architecture that easily renders multi-million polys; camera and film effects; motion blur; depth of field/bokeh lens simulation; global illumination; non-photoreal capabilities; and support for all the standard artistic "fakes."

About SplutterFish
SplutterFish LLC, established in 2001, is a Venice, California-based software provider of high-end, affordable and efficient 3D rendering tools. The company develops solutions focused towards the needs of production professionals working in the film, broadcast, architectural and product visualization, design engineering, 3D cartoon-style animation, and CG research industries. SplutterFish software products are currently available from the company and its international reseller representatives.

Brazil Rendering System is a trademark of SplutterFish, LLC. Discreet is a division of Autodesk, Inc. 3ds max and Autodesk VIZ are trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.