CrystalGraphics Enters Animation, Design, Illustration and Graphic Arts
Markets with a new Family of 3-D Products

June 22, 1992 -- New York. NY - CrystalGraphics, Inc. announced today, at
PC Expo, a new family of products including Crystal 3D Designer, Crystal
Desktop Animator and Crystal Flying Fonts!. This event marks the six year
old company's first direct entry into the market with products published
under the CrystalGraphics name.

"CrystalGraphics mission is to provide artists, designers, and animators
with professional level tools for the creation of photorealistic, full
color images and animations. By publishing our own family of products, the
company intends to bring 3-D technology into new market segments, and to
provide a direct link to our user community," said Dennis Ricks, President
of CrystalGraphics.

Crystal 3D Designer is crafted for artists and designers who will benefit
from its photorealistic image creation tools. It includes sophisticated
modeling, scene building, lighting, and rendering! in an easy to use,
integrated environment. Crystal 3D Designer is a solution for design
visualization applications including product and package design.
illustration. CAD rendering, and graphic design. Because 3-D models and
scenes can be quickly altered and viewed from many angles, Crystal 3D
Designer makes the iterative design process fast, easy, and more
productive.

Crystal Desktop Animator provides a complete set of scene creation,
lighting, rendering, and animation tools to animators, designers, and
other communication professionals. The product is intended for use by
those who need to combine high quality, photorealistic 3-D images and
animations into their multi-media or diskbased animation productions. The
powerful features of this product are accessed through a highly intuitive
graphical user interface which will enable users to easily produce
sophisticated animations which can be played directly on a PC, delivered
or disk, or integrated into a multimedia production through standard file
formats.

Crystal Flying Fonts! is a Title and logo animation product designed to
enable the non-professional to produce exciting 3-D introductions for
Presentations and videos. It provides pre-scripted motions which can be
easily applied to objects in the scene to produce television style
effects. The three step animation creation process requires no artistic
ability. The user simply types in text, selects appearance attributes from
the included gallery and assigns a motion selected via the pull-down menu.
Crystal Flying Fonts! then automatically renders the animation for viewing
on a Super VGA monitor.

The three aggressively priced products, Crystal Desktop Animator - $1,995,
Crystal 3D Designer - $995, and Crystal Flying Fonts! - $295, are all
being demonstrated at PC Expo this week and will be available for delivery
in August.

Located in Santa Clara. CA, CrystalGraphics, Inc. is dedicated to providing
animators, illustrators, and designers with affordable, professional
quality software tools that are easy to learn and use.

CrystalGraphics, Inc. 3110 Patrick Henry Dr, Santa Clara, CA 95054
(408) 496-6175  Fax: (408) 496-6988

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