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EOVIA Corp and CURIOUS LABS Inc. Announce Strategic Partnership Press Release #21 For Immediate Release - Eovia and Curious Labs launch Carrara Studio 2 / Poser 5 Bundle - Mountain View, California - May 2nd, 2003 - Eovia Corporation, developer and publisher of leading 3D software, and Curious Labs, Inc. today announced a strategic partnership that will focus on both technology and marketing cooperation. This new partnership begins immediately with the joint offering of a Poser 5 and Carrara Studio 2 bundle. "Poser and Carrara Studio, originally developed by the same company, share the same elegant user interface, unmatched ease of use and affordability," said Antoine Clappier, CEO of Eovia. "This new partnership between Eovia and Curious Labs reunites our award winning products, providing a maximum benefit to our customers." The Carrara Studio 2 / Poser 5 Bundle begins shipping today, at a suggested retail price of US$529. "This bundle helps to bring together two very valuable tools for the 3D and Art Worlds," said Katherine Howard, Curious Labs Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Even more significantly, it marks the beginning of a valuable partnership that will focus on future development as well asand integration as well." Pricing and Availability The English/International version of the Carrara Studio 2 / Poser 5 bundle begins shipping today for the Windows platform, at a suggested retail price of US$529. Sidegrade from any version of Carrara Studio to Poser 5: US $199 Sidegrade from any version of Poser to Carrara Studio: US $199 For more information and direct purchase, users may call Eovia in the US at 1-866-856-3775, or connect to the Eovia webstore at www.eovia.com, or contact Curious Labs at sales@curiouslabs.com or www.curiouslabs.com. About Carrara Studio 2 Carrara Studio 2 -- The Complete, Accessible and Productive 3D Solution for the creative user in the fields of Web, Print and Video. Available for Macintosh and Windows, Carrara Studio 2 is one of the most popular 3D graphics applications for modeling, animation, rendering, and special effects. About Poser 5 Poser 5 is the ultimate 3D-character design and animation tool for artists and animators. Create 3D figures from a diverse collection of ready-to-use human and animal models. Quickly output movies and images from posed figures. Poser is easy to master, affordable, and yet rich in professional features. About Eovia Corporation Eovia, a TGS company, was founded in November 2000 with headquarters in Mountain View, CA and offices in San Diego, CA and Bordeaux, France. Eovia is a young company with strong assets, and benefits from both the savoir-faire of its founders and the legacy of more than ten years of Research & Development and Marketing conducted by MetaCreations, Fractal Design, Ray Dream and TGS. Formerly the home of Amapi 3D, TGS has been in the graphics software business for over 15 years. About Curious Labs Inc. Curious Labs, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of EGISYS AG, designs, develops, and publishes software tools such as Poser(r), which focus on 3D human and character visualization for artists, designers, and web developers. The company is located in Santa Cruz, California. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.curiouslabs.com. EOVIA MEDIA CONTACTS North America and Rest of the World Emily Sorensen emily@eovia.com (858) 457-5359 x 111 France Laurent Billy billy@eovia.com +33 (0) 5 56 13 37 77 Germany & Austria Stefan Blomberg stefan@eovia.com +33 (0) 3 88 35 47 12 CURIOUS LABS MEDIA CONTACTS North America and Rest of the World Katherine Howard pr@curiouslabs.com Europe Wolfgang Eichner wolfgang.eichner@EGISYS.de ### Copyright Eovia 2003. Carrara, Carrara Studio, Amapi Designer, the Creative 3D Modeler, Eovia and the Eovia logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Eovia Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Amapi 3D is a trademark or registered trademark of TGS, Inc. Poser is a registered trademark of Curious Labs, Inc. and EGISYS AG. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. All other products, fonts, company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Ummm.... fair enough. Whatever... mac

Ringo, you have happy post syndrome tonight...you're all over the place :) Hopefully this will add som ecoin in both of their coffers to fix some bugs...especially CL cl

CuriousLabs is working on a SR3 and will be out very soon. Ringo

It will be interesting to see which way this pulls. At the moment, Eovia has one big plus: they know how to write and revise programs. The newest version of Amapi is improved in all the ways that Poser 5 -should- have been improved. Amapi 7 opens no vast new horizons; it just works much better and easier than Amapi 6. Eovia understood all the weak points, and started from scratch to fix them. And in the other corner, CL brings to this marriage .... um, ..... well, .... must be something ..... ... still thinking ....

...and we're all waiting for it. But we stopped holding our breath months ago.

for my 2cents I think this bodes well for both companies and all associated programs. In my experience with Eovia, they try to listen to the users..what do you want and how can we make it better/easier to use for the old hands as well as new users. Lets face it, you cant just rely on your old customers..ya gotta get new ones too and it has to be easy for them to use your product else you have not gained anything cause they will quit trying. I'd anticipate carrara3 being able to fully use poser animations and maybe a way to even talk directly between the two apps. will be interesting to see what happens. :)

Maybe they'll pick up Bryce and it can be one big happy family again.

now that would be great :) Bryce was on the for sale block...not sure if Corel is still trying to sell it or not..

All of the "strategic partnerships" in the world will be meaningless for poser as a viable program with a future, until it is RE-WRITTEN to comply with modern standards such as hardware acceleration etc. etc. etc. YAWN!!!!!

advert should be in product showcase. my 2 cents

Now, if they can manage to get the Pose room functions (at least) to work inside Carrara, the way that P3 did inside RDS 5.0, this might come to something. But up to now, Carrara was pointed ignored when the programs that have plug-ins in development for Poser were discussed. At the minimum, reading a PZ3 in Carrara would be nice. having Poser as a room in Carrara would really be something. That would be most of the fixes. Carrara has a hair growing plug-in, so the hair collision defect gets bypassed.

So far the only thing I've seen in all these "Stratigic Partnerships" is bundled items, no improvements or modification to any programs. Has Vue come out with an update to support P5 yet? No. Anyone else? I don't know of any. And it is an advert, and should be in Product Showcase. Side note: Katherine from CL say's they've got problems in the SR3 release and it'll be delayed a bit. Thank goodness they caught it before the release.

Maybe the Mac version of Poser 5 should wait till we all see whats going to happen after June and the WWDC.

"Poser and Carrara Studio, originally developed by the same company, share the same elegant user interface, unmatched ease of use and affordability," can we have something less elegant but faster and more along the gui guidelines for windows in next release, please?

erggh....I'd KILL to just have OpenGL support instead of this crappy GDI renderer..

well this is MAY,, isn't Poser 5 for Mac suppose to come out in JUNE , thats in one month,, think they will make the deadline before the SR3? whom ever they are with?

Hi, This quote is very important. "Even more significantly, it marks the beginning of a valuable partnership that will focus on future development as well asand integration as well." The key word here is INTEGRATION. With is very good news and if Eovia and CuriousLabs will share resourcee I would imagine that the OpenGL engine that Carrara Studio uses can be added to Poser. The new Management at CuriousLabs is more responsive in getting things done and creating partnerships. Personally like so many of you, have always wanted a Poser to Carrara plugin. From the Integration statement I know it will happened. Ringo

..hope this "Strategic Partnership" does turn out to be more than the same "Strategic Partnership" CL has with E-on. They are still pointing the finger at each other while all of us poser5/vue4 users sit in the corner with a big thumb up our butt waiting for SOMEONE to update the damned code so we can import poser 5 statics without having both p4 and p5 on the machine (insane) I agree with whoever said above that these "Strategic Partnerships" seem to only be new bundles of the same software.. CL is sure making a lot of "Strategic Partnerships" ... I hope it pans out for them, and us

{advert should be in product showcase.} The "no advertising or mentionting of products in the Poser Forum" only applies to Renderosity Merchants who are trying to eke out some extra money with their products (and help support the site). Sponsors of the site (such as CL) don't have to play by the same rules. Sponsors' "advertising" messages can be posted wherever they please. But, yes, any posting that tells the price of the procust, where to purchase the product, and the features of the product is an "advertisement".

I agree with Jaager and Ringo. But, I'm waiting to see something very very important before I upgrade to P5. A plugin for Carrara... and not Carrara to Poser. I want Poser to Carrara. I only use Poser for character posing and animation, I would LOVE it ... if I could manipulate Poser figures directly in Carrara, read in PZ3 files... the works. Carrara's weak point is character animation, that is Poser's strength. Carrara beats the tar out of Poser in everything else. I would get P5 instead of waiting to see what Daz offers if I got that wish... hint hint

I echo those who want a Poser to Carrara plug-in. I have Carrara 1.2, when I've imported Poser figures in Carrara the textures have been off. Maybe it's something I've been doing, I'm not sure--but it would be very nice especially in light of the "strategic partnership" if a import filter like the one from P4 to Vue 4 could be developed. Vue imports P4 figures and textures flawlessly. With this sort of compatibility for Poser to Carrara I'd be more interesting in purchasing the Carrara 2.0 upgrade.

import as vertex models, polymesh per material, and scale up the entire scene 2100 percent after import. Daz's figure eyes are horrible, except for V3. Use eye props with all other figures. I recommend Blackhearted's and Cake1's props. With C1 eyes, delete the middle material in the vertex modelller, so you don't get artifacts. Everything should render fine then.

Announcement: We're moving the money from Pile "A" to Pile "B". Everyone currently using pile "A" please switch to Pile "B". A.S.A.P. ;-)