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Corel Painter IX and Toon Boom Studio Offer Joint Savings

Toon Boom Animation Inc. and Corel Corp. are now offering special pricing, until May 31, 2005, to customers who purchase both Corel Painter IX and Toon Boom Studio v2.5, a natural pairing for professional animators to create traditional, hand-drawn animation. Starting in Corel Painter IX, artists create their hand-painted digital art. Using Painter IX animation features including onion-skinning and frame-rate control they can preview animations directly within the application. The art can be saved as individual bitmaps or compiled into QuickTime movies that are brought into Toon Boom Studio for advanced animation production.

Corel and Toon Boom are providing these special offers to Toon Boom Studio and Corel Painter IX customers.

When purchasing from Corel at www.corel.com/toonboom, Toon Boom Studio customers will receive a significant savings off the suggested retail price (SRP) of Corel Painter IX. Pricing details for Toon Boom Studio customers are as follows:

* U.S. Purchase Corel Painter IX for US$329 full or US$179 upgrade.* Canada Purchase Corel Painter IX for CAN $479 full or CAN $259 upgrade.* U.K. Purchase Corel Painter IX for £199 full or £74 upgrade.* European Union Purchase Corel Painter IX for 354 full or 164 upgrade.

When purchasing from Toon Boom at www.toonboom.com/corel, Corel Painter IX customers will receive US$95 off the full SRP of Toon Boom Studio v2.5 and US$45 off the full SRP of Toon Boom Studio Express.

I chose Painter because I didnt find anything else that comes this close to the natural feel and look of working with pencil or crayon, said Peter Höhsl, art director/animator for CineCartoon in Vienna, Austria. The best thing is that when youre finished, you just export, and your animation is in the format you need. I use Painter and Toon Boom Studio together because I like the realistic pencil feel of Painter to do my rough drawing and then the intuitive and uncomplicated workflow in Toon Boom Studio to trace, ink-and-paint.

Toon Boom Studio and Corel Painter IX come together to build an ideal environment where artists can create stunning animations in their own unique and personal style, said Sean Young, product manager for Corel Painter. Using our software, animators can re-create the look and quality of classic hand-drawn animations, while enjoying all the benefits the digital world has to offer. The end result is amazingly natural, expressive, and spectacular!

Joan Vogelesang, president/ceo for Toon Boom, added, Toon Boom Studio and Corel Painter IX make the perfect package for animators who wish to create photo-realistic images for their rich, eye-catching animations. We are proud to provide the tool that gives artists the chance to unleash their creative potential, making sure the technology is completely transparent throughout the creative process. Examples of this great combination speak for themselves!

Corel Painter is a highly sophisticated painting and illustration application, designed to capture the intricate nuances of traditional art tools while taking advantage of the incredible power of digital media.

Toon Boom Studio is a complete cartoon animation desktop application for creative professionals and schools, featuring powerful drawing tools, timesaving lip sync tools and innovative 3D camera and scene planning tools. With optimized output to SWF and QuickTime formats, animators can easily output their animations to the Web, video, wireless and beyond.

Customers are also welcome to try the free Corel Painter IX academic courseware thats created by professionals for professionals. This download explores the power of Corel Painter IX for animation and includes lesson plans, exercise files and a term project. Download Corel Painter IX academic courseware from www.corel.com/toonboom.

Founded in 1985, Corel Corp. provides innovative software solutions that help millions of value-conscious businesses and consumers in over 75 countries improve their productivity. The companys software portfolio combines innovative photo editing and graphics creation, vector-illustration, and technical-graphics applications along with office and personal productivity solutions. Corels flagship products include the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect Office Suite, the Corel Painter Natural-Media painting and illustration software, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite, and the Paint Shop Family of digital photography and image-editing software.

Headquartered in Ottawa, Corel was acquired by San Francisco-based Vector Capital in August 2003, and, since that time, has both re-established growth for its flagship product lines and achieved multiple consecutive quarters of corporate profitability.

Building on a decade of great successes, Toon Boom, headquartered in Montreal, is the world-leading supplier of animation technology. Toon Boom Animation Inc. carries several leading animation products, including Opus, Harmony and Toon Boom Studio. Toon Boom also offers consulting and training services dedicated to increasing animation production efficiency and quality. Harmony, a new solution designed to meet digital and paperless animation production needs, comes with high-tech tools such as morphing, inverse kinematics and glue.

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