Customer Feedback Drives Improvements to mocha, monet, mokey, motor; Showcased in the Plugin Pavilion

GUILDFORD, UK (July 29, 2008) Imagineer Systems (www.imagineersystems.com), creators of next-generation VFX tools, today announced its presence at Siggraph 2008 in Los Angeles the week of August 12 - 14, 2008 in the Plugin Pavilion (Booth #1536) at the Los Angeles Convention Center. During the show, representatives from Imagineer Systems will showcase newly released versions of the Company's highly-popular VFX desktop tools, such as mocha, motor, monet and mokey.

"As Siggraph continues to expand its reach into the VFX and post production market, we feel the timing is perfect to add a new venue for us to meet with customers and share with them the latest developments with our VFX tools," said Allan Jaenicke, chief executive officer of Imagineer Systems. "We're also very pleased to be able to come to Los Angeles, where some of the industry's most talented VFX artists reside, and show them first-hand how our desktop tools can significantly enhance their VFX workflow."

Many customers are sharing their excitement over the significant workflow improvements they've seen since they've added Imagineer Systems to their VFX tool box. Jon Fitzsimmons of Crimson Wolf Productions had this to say about Imagineer's newest addition to its product portfolio, mocha-AE:

"mocha AE has made my life much much easier so far on a recent project. There were about 120 shots of monitors, phones, etc. in this film that need something comped in. I've been doing it with Syntheyes up until now, which was great for adding Maya elements, but not so great for screen composites. mocha-AE has made one of my most difficult shots possible!"

Imagineer Systems will join its industry colleagues in the popular Plugin Pavilion (Booth #1536) to demonstrate the newest versions, announced this month, for customers. The Company will also offer Siggraph attendees special show pricing and discounts from the show floor. More details will be available at the Imagineer Systems booth. Imagineer Systems tools available at Siggraph for demonstration and purchase include:

motor: A dedicated rotoscoping tools that leverages Imagineer's powerful 2.5D planar tracking technology that enables artists to position, rotate, scale, shear and perspective-shift roto splines;

mocha: The Company's standalone tracking station that also leverages Imagineer's advanced 2.5D planar tracking technology to simplify and significantly accelerate the tracking and rotoscoping workflow for VFX artists;

mocha-AE: Imagineer's powerful, affordable new planar tracking tool developed specifically for Adobe After Effects artists and modelled after the Company's recently released standalone tracking solution, mocha.

monet: Imagineer's popular 2.5D tracking and element replacement tool;

mokey: Another of Imagineer's highly popular VFX soltuions, mokey provides fast, high quality tracking, wire and rig removal, keying, image stabilization, noise reduction and film grain management.

About Imagineer Systems

Imagineer Systems Ltd innovates and markets next-generation visual effects solutions for film, video and broadcast post production markets. In response to a groundswell desire for a more innovative approach to VFX, Imagineer Systems has developed an entirely new VFX architecture, one that embraces better integration, collaboration, performance and feels like an extension of the creative thought process - mogul. Imagineer Systems has made its mark on such marquis Hollywood blockbuster productions as Casino Royale, Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter. Imagineer's product line consists of monet^TM - placement station, mokey^TM - removal station, motor^TM - roto station, mocha^TM - tracking station and mofex^TM - plug-in for Shake. Imagineer Systems was founded in 2000 and its headquarters is located in Guildford, United Kingdom. For more information visit www.imagineersystems.com. For more information on mogul, please visit www.mogulvfx.com.

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Save 50% on all Imagineer Systems software through July 30 (excluding dongled versions)*. Yes, we've already posted this to our news blog, but what if you do want a dongle? Don't worry, we can help.

If you would like a dongle for Monet, Mokey, and Mocha (basically everything except Mocha AE), you can buy these with a dongle by purchasing the license at the promotional 50% off, then "Add-on" a dongle for $500.

Note: Node-lock licenses purchased with the dongle are platform specific (only Mac purchase works on Mac computers, Windows only on Windows computers). If you need a cross-platform dongle, you will need to purchase the Floating license plus this dongle add-on Floating licenses are cross-platform.

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Save 50% on all Imagineer Systems software through July 30 (excluding dongled versions)*. Yes, we've already posted this to our news blog, but what if you do want a dongle? Don't worry, we can help.

If you would like a dongle for Monet, Mokey, and Mocha (basically everything except Mocha AE), you can buy these with a dongle by purchasing the license at the promotional 50% off, then "Add-on" a dongle for $500.

Note: Node-lock licenses purchased with the dongle are platform specific (only Mac purchase works on Mac computers, Windows only on Windows computers). If you need a cross-platform dongle, you will need to purchase the Floating license plus this dongle add-on Floating licenses are cross-platform.

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Online Overview Video

Watch an overview of Imagineer's core products (pops), including motor, mocha, mocha ae, mokey and monet.

Imagineer events

16th January 2008 - Imagineer presents in South Florida!

Ross Shain, VP Sales & Product Specialist will be presenting all our products to the South Florida FCP and Siggraph Users groups

Host: South Florida FCP & Siggraph user groups
Date: 16th January, 2008
Time: 7PM
Venue: Florida Center for Electronic Communication
Directions: Here

29th January 2008 - Imagineer presents at PBS in Boston!
Ross Shain, VP Sales & Product Specialist will be presenting at WGBH/PBS in Boston, Massachusetts.

Space is limited so please contact Ross Shain to reserve a spot.

Host: WGBH/PBS
Date: 29th January, 2008
Time: 2 sessions - 2:30PM & 4:30PM
Venue: WGBH in Brighton, One Guest Street, Boston, MA 02135
Directions: Here

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mocha has been a huge success since its launch in August 2007. mocha has made the Imagineer planar tracking technology accessible to everybody and has fast become the most talked about tracking tool available. mokey v4.1.2 and monet v2.1.2 were released today and are now available

Imagineer says, "Following on from this success and after much discussion with our partners and customers, we are pleased to announce that we have decided to significantly reduce the price of our flagship products mokey and monet."

mokey and monet are now priced exactly the same and you can purchase the software for only $5,590 node locked and $7,195 floating on our online store.

• Imagineer Systems monet Floating License
• Imagineer Systems monet Node-locked License
• Imagineer Systems mokey Floating License
• Imagineer Systems mokey Node-locked License

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I wasn't at the meeting since I'm clear across the country, so I'm living vicariously through those who were lucky enough to attend. First, Dave Basulto has posted some images from last night's MGLA meeting on his site.

Second, Chris Meyer of Cybermotion had some great things to say about the meeting in a post to the AE List. Imagineer Mocha was shown. It's a planar tracker that uses the technology in the more advanced Mokey and Monet. Chris says, " It did some pretty darn amazing things, including continuing tracks successfully when large portions of the tracked object went off screen."

Marco S. from Digital Anarchy showed PlasmaFX and ToonIt! Chris says about ToonIt! " It was also an excellent example of the role frame rate plays in whether we perceive something as real or fantasy; keeping the result at normal video rate didn't look like you would expect it to."

Peder Norrby showed Trapcode Form (codename Flux). Form is the plug-in that people are really keyed up for the release, which will hopefully still happen this summer. It's similar to Particular but does lots of other cool things. Chris says "The couple of examples Peder showed using displacement maps and alpha mattes were particularly impressive".

Sean Safreed showedMagic Bullet 3 at the meeting. Chris says "...the new UI... it makes things soooo much easier for quick, broad strokes to get the look you're after without having to come to terms with a bunch of sliders (however useful they are)."

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19th December 2006 - Imagineer Systems, the UK-based innovators of next-generation VFX tools, announced today that its latest release of monet and mokey includes Intel-based Mac support.

"We are excited about Apple's commitment to being at the forefront of workstation performance and we are experiencing significant performance improvements on these new systems," says Imagineer CEO Allan Jaenicke. "We are committed to the Mac platform and look forward to exploring the opportunities for adding more complex features to our software that the increased performance of the Intel-Mac enable."

The new release will be a Universal Binary, running both on G5 and Intel based systems. Users with Intel-based Macs will experience a significant performance improvement compared to previous releases.

"The blazing speed of our Intel-based Macs offers a significant performance advantage for high end applications reliant on heavy visual effects," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "We're thrilled that Imagineer has joined the thousands of developers using Xcode and other innovative Apple tools to develop Universal versions of their applications."

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