Conoa Announces New 3-D Plug-in for Adobe After Effects

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Conoa uses the standard Adobe After Effects plug-in user interface; there are no custom user … Kilisky, senior product manager for Adobe After Effects. …

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 16, 2002
Contact:
Gil Irizarry
President
Conoa, Inc,
PO Box 390126
Cambridge, MA 02139
gil@conoa.com
www.conoa.com
617-497-6791
Conoa Announces New 3-D Plug-in for Adobe After Effects
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - January 16, 2001 Conoa, Inc. announces the release of the Conoa plug-in for
Adobe?After Effects?software. Conoa brings true 3-D geometric primitives to the After Effects
environment, allowing users to quickly add 3-D elements to their motion graphics.
Conoa supports 12 canonical shapes, including sphere, cube, and cylinder. Shapes can be arbitrarily placed
in 3-D space, allowing larger forms to be created. The shapes can be viewed through After Effects’ camera
and lit with its lights, or with Conoa’s own camera and lights. The shapes are then rendered with a
powerful raytracing engine, which supports texture mapping onto any shape, reflections, refractions, Phong
shading, specular highlights, multiple material models and much more. Any After Effects layer can be
applied to any shape as a texture map. Shapes can intersect each other and any shape can cast a shadow
onto any other. Partially opaque surfaces correctly cast variable density shadows.
Conoa uses the…