This bundling partnership brings the collective powers of Discreet, the leader in digital content creation software, and Anark, developers of the most innovative media authoring tool on the market, together in a complete 3D, interactive creative solution.

Discreet’s plasma software and Anark Studio together will give artists, designers and developers the powerful 3D tools they need to create visually captivating real-time, interactive, 3D experiences—including corporate multimedia communications projects, interactive learning projects, as well as eye-catching entertainment presentations across a variety of mediums—such as DVD, CD-ROM, kiosks, the Web and beyond. Anark Studio and plasma artists can leverage cross-product integration, sharing 3D models—as well as interactive 3D, video, audio and 2D images. This powerhouse bundle delivers a high-productivity design environment with a flexible workspace, drag and drop behaviors, and an industry standard timeline, all of which contribute to time-and cost-savings.

“Anark represents a new breed of tools for aggregating 3D and multimedia content in exciting, dynamic and interactive ways,” said Joe Klingler, vice president of software at Discreet. “By partnering with Discreet, Anark is able to closely integrate content from plasma allowing 3D artists to use Discreet’s powerful 3D tools and deliver content using Anark Studio.”

plasma software is based on Discreet’s professional 3ds max software package for modeling, animation and rendering technology—but created specifically with a Web designer-centric user interface, tool access and workflow. While the Anark Studio bundle includes plasma , both plasma and 3ds max files can be integrated into Anark Studio presentations, based on varying capabilities of 3D creation. Artists can build real-time, optimized 3D models with the robust production-proven modeling tools in plasma and integrate these models into captivating multimedia presentations using Anark Studio’s intuitive interactive authoring environment.

“This partnership significantly drives down the typical product cost and enhances the ability of multimedia developers to easily create striking, real-time 3D presentations,” said Stephen Collins, president and CEO of Anark. “Discreet’s acclaimed 3D technology is apparent in plasma, and the combination with Anark Studio is an unmatched toolkit for creating 3D, interactive content.”

More info on Anark's site.