NewTek, Inc., Announces the Addition of 3D Arsenal™ to the 3D Product Line-Up

 New Product Offers Simple 3D Animation Solution for Video Editors

NAB, Las Vegas, NV, – April 24, 2006 -- NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, announced today the addition of 3D Arsenal™ and the 3D Arsenal suite of products to the NewTek line. 3D Arsenal is a collection of content, plug-ins and training material that simplify the creation of custom motion graphics and logo animations for video editors. 3D Arsenal is based upon NewTek’s Emmy Award-winning LightWave 3D® software. 3D Arsenal ships with over 750 pre-created scenes and templates. A content only version of 3D Arsenal is available to current LightWave® owners.

"We recognize the complexity in the creation of 3D graphics, but also know that many video producers want high quality motion graphics and don’t have the time to fully learn and exploit a 3D application," said Jay Roth, president of NewTek's 3D division. "That's why 3D Arsenal is perfect; it leverages the benefits of LightWave, including the rendering technology, with easily customizable pre-created scenes, a streamlined user interface and dynamic learning materials. You are literally creating in minutes."

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
3D Arsenal is available at a retail price of $495US. 3D Arsenal content is available to LightWave owners at a retail price of $295US. The 3D Arsenal Wedding and Event Ammo pack retails for $150US. To locate the 3D Arsenal reseller nearest you visit: www.newtek.com or call NewTek Sales at 800-368-5441.

About NewTek, Inc.
With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is a leading provider of full-featured video editing, live production, presentation, animation and special effects tools including LightWave 3D®, winner of the 2003 Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award, TriCaster™ and VT[5]™. NewTek launched the desktop video revolution in 1990 with the release of the legendary Video Toaster®. The company's products are used worldwide on projects ranging from home video to feature film. Recent television and film projects using NewTek production tools include Fantastic Four, The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3D, Sin City, The Aviator, Aliens of the Deep, "I, Robot", Spiderman 2, Battlestar: Galactica, Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight. Recent game titles include Doom III, Unreal Tournament, and Age of Mythology. Website: http://www.newtek.com

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• LightWave and LightWave 3D are registered t rademarks of NewTek.
• TriCaster, VT[5] and 3D Arsenal are trademarks of NewTek, Inc.
• All other products or brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Toasterdudes.com is dedicated to bringing creativity to the masses. We believe that everybody should be able to produce quality video projects. With our "Weapons Of Mass Creation" products, services and training materials, our goal is to improve the production value of our customers projects.

The toasterdudes have a wealth of experience in digital video and graphics production, sales, marketing and training. We have done demonstrations and training on Digital Video products all over the United States, Canada and the rest of the world. We have done production, post production, editing, graphics, webcasts and consulting on a wide variety of projects. From TV commercials to Documentaries, from event videos, to live events, from TV Shows and infomercials to helping launch a 24 hour, 7 day per week internet TV network, we've done it all.

Our first product, the 3D Arsenal helped people with little or no experience in 3D animation with the creation of killer elements to take their production levels up a notch or two. By simple loading up pre made scenes and mapping their own video clips on the 3D objects, a wide variety of effects was now possible. From simple softedge effects to rotating trusses with plasma screens playing moving video. 3D arsenal even included some 3D Compositing scenes to use with green screen footage.

Our 3D Logo Arsenal allows users to easily create 3D Logo and text animations. Logo Arsenal ships with a wide variety of pre made scenes as well as custom utilities to make modeling the logos automatic! There are utilities to split the logo into individual layers so each letter can be animated separately.

Both of these products include screen captured tutorials to make getting up to speed a breeze and clients find themselves learning a bit about 3D Animation without even trying! We will be constantly adding more tutorials for our products here in our support section.

Also in the works is a series of training DVDs for VT3, VT4 and LightWave for video editors. Withe these and future Video products and services we plan to bring creativity to the masses. . . .with. . . .

"Weapons of Mass Creation"!

Newtek, LightWave3D, Video Toaster, VT3, VT4 and Aura are trademarks of Newtek
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3D Arsenal, 3D Logo Arsenal, Logo Arsenal, Weapons of Mass Creation, Toasterdudes and Easy Text are trademarks of TMG Productions, LLC