Visit ELSA in Booth #313 to see the video-in function of the GLoria Synergy™ running SurfaceSuite™

SANTA CLARA, CA – February 17, 1998 — ELSA Inc. is pleased to announce the participation of Sven Technologies in its booth at NATE, Feb. 19-20. Sven Technologies is the manufacturer of SurfaceSuite, a suite of four 3D Studio MAX^® plug-ins. Visitors who stop by the booth will see a live demonstration of SurfaceSuite in which their pictures will be mapped onto a 3D head model using the video-in function of the GLoria Synergy. This reveals capabilities offered by the ELSA GLoria Synergy's unique video-in and video-out features for animators. ELSA GLoria Synergy offers the user high performance 3D, 100% OpenGL^® acceleration multimedia capabilities for a compelling price. Visitors will be entered to win either product, GLoria Synergy or SurfaceSuite. One of each product will be awarded at the close of the show.

SurfaceSuite allows professional animators, artists and designers to rapidly and interactively apply multiple 2D textures onto complex 3D objects. This application makes eliminating texture seams and blending across textures simple tasks. SurfaceSuite is the first 3D authoring application to allow the easy integration of photographic source images into the 3D content creation process.

"Working with Sven Technologies should prove to be a mutually beneficial partnership. SurfaceSuite benefits tremendously when coupled with the ability to quickly capture video data. ELSA, the only graphics accelerator manufacturer that integrates a direct video-in feature into its boards, makes capturing video images for use with SurfaceSuite incredibly easy," says Thomas Neubert, VP of sales and marketing at ELSA Inc.

Saul Kato, CEO and President of Sven Technologies, stated "Sven is extremely pleased to be working with ELSA. The unique video-in feature of the GLoria Synergy provides animators and artists with a very quick and easy way to capture video images for use in SurfaceSuite. Needless to say, the GLoria Synergy’s acceleration features increase the speed and smoothness of SurfaceSuite’s real-time interactive texture mapping."

About Sven Technologies, Inc.:
Sven Technologies, Inc. is a Palo Alto-based company founded in 1996. The Company develops and markets 3D computer graphics software tools. These tools enable the creation of compelling, photorealistic 3D images for use in many segments of the 3D computer graphics industry, including film and video, game development, CAD and World Wide Web environments. Sven Technologies, Inc. also markets and sells Multi-Resolution Geometry™, a real-time continuous level of detail API for 3D game and content developers, and AvatarMaker3D™, an intuitive 3D avatar creation application.

Sven Technologies, Inc., Surface Suite, AvatarMaker3D and Multi-Resolution Geometry are trademarks of Sven Technologies, Inc.

About GLoria Synergy:
ELSA GLoria Synergy is based on 3Dlabs PERMEDIA^® 2-chip. The chip integrates a GLINT Delta geometry processor, VGA and a 230 MHz RAMDAC. This professional CAD board with optimal all-round settings for 2D and 3D can reach a resolution of up to 1920 x 1200 pixels in HiColor, and 1280 x 1024 in TrueColor. The GLoria Synergy was designed especially for professional 3D applications such as 3D Studio MAX, 3D Studio VIZ^®, Lightscape™, AutoCAD^®, Autodesk^® Mechanical Desktop, MicroStation^®, SolidWorks, Open Inventor, Internet VRML viewing, and many more.

About ELSA Inc.:
ELSA Inc. is a subsidiary of ELSA AG, a stock company based in Aachen, Germany. Founded in 1980, ELSA has built a world-class reputation in high-performance 2D and 3D graphics solutions in addition to a wide ranging ISDN and videoconferencing product family.

ELSA is a trademark of ELSA Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks previously cited are hereby acknowledged and recognized.