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Adobe
www.adobe.com
- One (1) copy of Creative Suite 3, Production Premium (per city)
Description: Maximize your productivity with the complete and integrated post-production collection for Mac and Windows. Tighter than ever integration among Adobe's all-new video, audio, and design tools help ensure fluidity in every aspect of your workflow.
Value: $1,699
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MAXON
www.maxon.net
- One (1) copy of CINEMA 4D + MoGraph (per city)
Description: CINEMA 4D has everything to satisfy your professional 3D modeling, texturing, animating and rendering needs. It's fast, stable, powerful, and delivers dazzling imagery. CINEMA 4D offers customizable configuration suitable for any industry and all skill levels. With the MoGraph module you can clone numerous objects and create extruded text with just a few simple clicks, or add effectors into the mix and put everything in motion and much more, often without a single keyframe!
Value: $1,290
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Intel
www.intel.com/partner
- One (1) Professional Laptop (one for the entire tour)
Description: Intel has generously provided the cash to purchase a professional grade laptop. This laptop will be given away as part of the post show follow-up. This prize will include a copy of CINEMA 4D + MoGraph and Adobe's CS3 Production Premium. All attendees from all cities will be eligible. Details on this prize and how to win will be available at each event.
Value: Up to $8,000
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nVidia
www.nvidia.com
- One (1) Quadro FX 3500 professional graphics card (per city)
Description: NVIDIA Quadro® high-end graphics solutions are the industry-leading workstation graphics solutions for CAD, DCC and visualization applications. Featuring outstanding performance and quality, NVIDIA Quadro high-end products deliver 256MB frame buffer memory, up to 42.2GB/sec. memory bandwidth, 256-bit memory interface and support for ultra high-resolution panels up to 3840x2400 for ultimate productivity. Offering a new level of interactivity for engineers and designers, NVIDIA Quadro high-end graphics solutions enable shorter production cycles and faster time-to-market.
Value: $1,500
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Verbatim
www.verbatim.com
- Two (2) 10-packs of DVDR DL (per city)
Description: 8.5 GB on a Single-sided Disc - 2.4x DVD+R DL -- Record 4 hours of DVD-quality video at up to 6x speed and 8x DVD+R DL -- Burn 8.5GB in about 12-15 minutes. And, 2.6GB on a 3-inch Disc - Mini DVD+R DL A full hour of continuous video capture time on a single side. All disks include VideoGard"! Protection.
Value: $40 each
- Two (2) 20-packs of DVDR (per city)
Description: 8.5 GB on a Single-sided Disc - 2.4x DVD+R DL -- Record 4 hours of DVD-quality video at up to 6x speed and 8x DVD+R DL -- Burn 8.5GB in about 12-15 minutes. And, 2.6GB on a 3-inch Disc - Mini DVD+R DL A full hour of continuous video capture time on a single side. All disks include VideoGard"! Protection.
Value: $35 each
- Two (2) 2-4GB USB drives (per city)
Description: With Verbatim's award-winning Store n Go"! USB Drives, it's never been easier to store, share and transport digital files. You can even transfer files between home computers without having to set up a network. Offering unprecedented reliability and convenience at affordable prices, these tiny devices plug in to the USB port of any PC to provide fast access wherever you go.
Value: $129 each
- One (1) 12GB USB HD (per city)
Description: Verbatim s new Store n Go 12GB USB hard drive makes it a snap to keep all your important files on hand. Slightly smaller than two iPod Shuffles or two USB flash drives, the compact unit lets you carry up to 12 hours of MPEG-1 video, about 6,000 300-DPI photos, 6 hours of DVD-quality video or tens of thousands of personal or business documents. The Mobile Launchpad also allows users to have complete access to personal files and data without loading the content on a guest system.
Value: $179
- Two (2) Notebook Essentials (per city)
Description: Whether you' re a student or a rising star in the business world the notebook PC is the weapon of choice. Until now the big challenge has been lugging around all of the computing tools and accessories you need to be really productive even when you're away from your room or office. To solve the dilemma, Verbatim has developed a handy Notebook Essentials collection that has everything you need in a compact protective case that fits easily in your backpack or computer case.
Value: $35 each
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Artbeats
www.artbeats.com
- One (1) Art Beats Collection TBD (per city)
Description:Artbeats is an award-winning provider of royalty-free stock footage for broadcast, feature films, commercial, multimedia, game development and independent producers. The Artbeats library includes nature, special effects, scenics, aerials, lifestyles, backgrounds and much more. Free research from the company's knowledgeable service representatives and access to online tutorials help customers locate and make the most of their stock footage resources.
Value: $499
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Gridiron Software
www.gridironsoftware.com
- Two (2) copies of Nucleo Pro 2 (per city)
Description: Nucleo Pro 2 (due to ship in early summer 2007) will support After Effects CS3 Professional and all versions of After Effects 7. New features of Nucleo Pro 2 include the ability specify how nested compositions are rendered and run renders of users favorite 3D applications (including CINEMA 4D) in the Nucleo Pro Background Render Queue.
Value: $395 each
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RE: Vision Effects
www.revisionfx.com
- One (1) copy of RE: Map (per city)
Description: RE:Map is the ultimate kit of mapping and distortion tools. Render UV maps with CINEMA 4D and do the texture mapping completely in post AE with RE:Map, fill all the stadium billboards, dynamic screens action right into the compositing. You can use the "Inverse UV" mapping tool to edit/refine textures maps in CINEMA 4D, giving you an additional workflow option to an image editor like Photoshop or a 3D paint like BodyPaint. RE:Map is a set of 5 plugins to perform UV Mapping effects, Inverse UV Mapping, Stylized Distortions, Displacement Mapping, Planar Mapping (inverse corner pinning). RE:Vision Effects mapping rendering supports high quality filtering (analytic anti-aliasing sub-pixel resampling to properly deal with UV edges and crossing, supersampling and mipmapping).
Value: $149.95
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Digital Anarchy
www.digitalanarchy.com
- One (1) copy of 3D Assistants
Description: 3D Assistants: Arrange and Animate Your 3D Layers! The 3D Assistants are powerful keyframing tools that allow you to easily arrange, animate, and manage 3D-enabled layers in After Effects. Animate the layers' position and orientation, or use two Assistants to keyframe from 3D shape to 3D shape, with no added render time. Best of all, you work directly within After Effects, so there is no added render time or import issues.
Value: $200
- One (1) copy of Psunami
Description: Photoreal 3D Water Simulation & Effects! Psunami Water is a photo-realistic 3D water simulation tool for After Effects and Final Cut Pro. Psunami generates precise 3D geometry of an ocean surface, then utilizes a powerful ray-tracing render engine to produce ultra-realistic output. With Psunami Water, you will design and animate beautiful oceanographic effects with render quality previously available only in high-end 3D systems.
Value: $200
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Cybermotion: Chris and Trish Meyer
www.cybmotion.com
- Five (5) copies of After Effects Apprentice for AE7 and CS3 (per city)
Description: After Effects Apprentice is aimed at those who want to get up to speed quickly. This 320-page full color book contains a series of 12 lessons with numerous step-by-step exercises that will introduce you to the core features in After Effects, including how to use them in the real world. One entire lesson is devoted to three major new features in AE CS3: Brainstorm, the Puppet Tool, and Shape Layers.
Value: $39.95 each
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