GenArts Congratulates Academy Awards Nominees

-- All three nominees for Best Visual Effects Awards use Sapphire Plug-ins --

Cambridge, MA. (February 12th 2003) - GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of digital visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industry, would like to congratulate its film customers for their outstanding work on the productions nominated yesterday for the 75th Annual Academy Awards.

In particular, GenArts would like to congratulate the three movies selected for this year's 'Best Visual Effects' Academy Award which include Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Spider-Man and Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones. All three used Sapphire Plug-insTM from GenArts.

"Sapphire Plug-ins is an excellent package that helped us make The Lord of the Rings," said John Nugent, Compositing Supervisor at Weta Digital.

"We used Sapphire Plug-ins to create many looks for Spider-Man that would have been nearly impossible to achieve otherwise," said Christian Boudman, Digital Artist at Sony Pictures.

"We never cease to be amazed by the work of our customers, and we are proud to be able to play even a small part in their success," said Karl Sims, GenArts' President and Founder.

About GenArts Sapphire Plug-ins
Sapphire Plug-ins provide digital artists with a collection of over 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects. They fully and seamlessly integrate into a number of editing and compositing systems including: Avid's Media Composer, Xpress, Xpress DV, Symphony and Avid|DS; Discreet's Flint, Flame, Inferno, Fire, and Smoke; and Apple's Shake. Sapphire Plug-ins offer a comprehensive suite of tools and effects that can transform any film or video clip. They are resolution-independent, include multi-processor support for faster rendering, and run on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Irix. Effects in the package range from everyday tools such as Glows, EdgeRays, LensFlare, Glint, Blurs and RackDefocus, to more exotic effects like Lightning, FlysEye, JpegDamage, HalfTone and Textures.

About GenArts, Inc.
Based in Cambridge, Mass., GenArts, Inc. is a premier provider of digital visual effects plug-ins for the film and video industry. Introduced in 1996, Sapphire Plug-ins have become an industry standard for high-end visual effects creation at leading studios, broadcast and post production facilities around the world. They are widely recognized for their unrivaled quality and ease-of-use, and have been used extensively to create an array of feature films such as: The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars-Episode I and II, Spider-Man, Ice Age, Pearl Harbor, Final Fantasy, Dinosaur, Titanic, The Matrix, Armageddon, Planet of the Apes, Contact, Star Trek and Godzilla.. Additional GenArts product information can be found on at http://www.genarts.com.

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