Eovia Announces Special Offers for
Corel Painter 8 and Carrara Studio 3 Customers

Mountain View, California December 16, 2003 Eovia Corporation, developer and publisher of leading 3D software, today announced special offers for users of Corel Painter 8 and Carrara Studio 3. Beginning today, registered users of Carrara Studio 3 can purchase the full version of Corel Painter 8, the award-winning digital painting and sketching tool, for the upgrade price of US$149 / 169 excl. VAT (English version pricing). In addition, registered users of Corel Painter 8 can purchase Carrara Studio 3 for the upgrade price of US$249. This special offer will run through February 29, 2004.

With elegant interfaces and a shared commitment to ease of use, Carrara Studio 3 and Corel Painter 8 are complementary products that leverage industry standard file formats. This makes it much easier for customers to quickly become comfortable with the software, allowing them to be productive almost immediately.

Corel Painter 8 and Carrara Studio 3 are among the very few products with true personalities on the market today, said Antoine Clappier, CEO of Eovia. Carrara Studio 3 users will love the opportunity to get the extraordinary Painter 8 at such a low price.

Using Corel Painter 8, a Carrara Studio 3 customer can retouch a rendered image, create unique textures, apply a variety of special effects, color correct images, and much more. Users of Corel Painter 8 can take advantage of a multitude of features found in Carrara Studio 3, including the creation of 3D texts, logos, animations or complex 3D images.

This special offer provides our customers with a wonderful opportunity to explore the 3rd dimension, said Theresa Howe, Product Manager, Corel Painter. Full featured and easy-to-use, Carrara Studio 3 is a great companion for Corel Painter 8.

Pricing and Availability

Starting today, registered users of Carrara Studio 3 can purchase the full version of Corel Painter 8 for the upgrade price of US$149 / 169 excl. VAT for the English version (localized products pricing may vary). Respectively, registered Corel Painter 8 users can purchase Carrara Studio 3 for the upgrade price of US$249. This offer is valid worldwide until February 29, 2004.

Ordering Corel Painter 8

Eovia Carrara Studio 3 users can purchase the Corel Painter 8 upgrade (English or localized versions) from the Corel webstore at www.corel.com/promotions/eovia from December 15, 2003 to February 29, 2004.

Ordering Carrara Studio 3

For more information or direct purchase, users may call Eovia in the US at 1-866-856-3775 or 1-650-938-4178 (outside the USA), or connect to the Eovia webstore at www.eovia.com and use coupon code# Painter1203.

Oh, man. I knew the day after I ordered Painter 8 that Eovia would hook up with that product some how. If only I had waited another week before buying.