ResPower Super/Farm™ Render Farm Supports RPC for LightWave [8]

ResPower Inc. is pleased to announce the immediate support of ArchVision's RPC plug-in for Newtek's LightWave [8] on the ResPower Super/Farm™, the world's premier render farm. Because the ResPower Super/Farm Render Farm is RPC Enabled, users do not need to upload their ArchVision RPC content files in order to render. They only need to upload their scene files, object files, and textures - the entire ArchVision RPC library is already accessible at the farm for rendering purposes.

The self-service interaction with the ResPower Super/Farm™ allows customers to render with unsurpassed speed from anywhere in the world at any time, without hassle. Should problems arise, ResPower offers unparalleled free technical support 24 hours a day.

Randall Stevens, President of ArchVision, stated that "Seeing RPC on LightWave at the ResPower Super/Farm™ is great. Now our customers that are using RPC to quickly produce photo-realistic animations and scenery in the award-winning LightWave package can accelerate their rendering using a world-class render farm at any time. Couple that power with the broad RPC library available from ArchVision, and there's no limit to what the artist can accomplish."

William Vaughan, NewTek's LightWave Evangelist and instructor at the DAVE school, says, "The Super/Farm™ is astonishingly fast and has developed a strong following in the LightWave community. With the addition of RPC technology and LightWave [8], it is sure to be an enabling technology for artists around the world to produce stunning graphics quickly."

Early Ehlinger, President & CEO of ResPower, Inc., says, "LightWave was one of the original render engines that ResPower supported, and we are proud to continue that tradition of support by implementing RPC technology for LightWave. Our LightWave customers have been eagerly looking for image-based-rendering technologies that would work with LightWave, and when ArchVision produced the RPC plug-in, it was a natural decision to support it."

With over 2,700 GHz and the enhanced rendering power of RPC on LightWave [8], the ResPower Super/Farm™ render farm turns any crew into a major studio. Everyone from large firms to individual users can log in at any time, upload their files and render. ResPower delivers the best in speed, software, and service 24x7x365. And because the Super/Farm is self-service, render jobs as short as a single frame are welcome.

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 Tricaster™, VT[4]™ and LightWave 3D, winner of the 2003 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award. 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.

ArchVision is the leader in the development of image-based content creation, management and delivery solutions. In addition to its RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) Plug-in technology, ArchVision's products include a growing library of RPC content ranging from people, trees and shrubs to image-based automobiles and other popular objects.

ArchVision currently serves customers located in over 90 countries around the world. RPC is the image-based rendering technology of choice for many of the leading animation, CAD, real-time simulation, and 3D modeling software packages on the market today. Native and plug-in RPC support now exists in 3dsmax, Autodesk VIZ, Autodesk Civil 3D, Bentley MicroStation, Alias' Maya, Newtek's LightWave 3D, Maxon's Cinema 4D, AccuRender from Robert McNeel & Associates, Revit, Piranesi from Informatix, Adobe Photoshop, Graffiti RenderPro, Cubicspace's rtre, Arc+ Render, VR4MAX, and SGI Performer. For more information, call ArchVision at 859-252-3118 or visit us on the web at www.archvision.com.

Founded in 2000, ResPower provides rendering services with over 2,700 GHz. Now supporting 9 render engines in over 14 versions, ResPower is the world's premiere render farm service. ResPower provides rendering worldwide for small to large volume projects, for clients such as Nickelodeon, Newtek, and Country Music Television. For more information on how to render over the Internet, please log onto http://www.respower.com/