SAN JOSE, Calif – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE), the leader in
digital publishing for Web, print and dynamic media, today announced the
immediate availability of Adobe LiveMotion software, a new Web graphics and
animation tool for
professional Web designers and developers.
Anticipation for availability of LiveMotion has been surging since the
introduction of the public beta on the Adobe.com Web site in March. Over
360,000 Web designers and developers have downloaded the beta software, and
just last month LiveMotion won the Best of Show Award in the Web Design
Software category at Spring Internet World 2000 in Los Angeles.
“We are thrilled to use Adobe LiveMotion as a new software tool in
producing our global branded animation franchises for the Internet,” states
Stephen Brain, executive vice-president of production for Stan Lee Media.
“It
is a tremendous timesaver for our digital animation production staff,
enabling
us to work seamlessly with other Adobe products for web design. LiveMotion
is
going to help take web animation to another level.”
LiveMotion allows Web designers and developers to work with maximum
efficiency and productivity while exercising unlimited creative freedom by
offering intuitive and flexible features. For example, users have the
ability
to draw or import vector images, independently animate an object’s
attributes
directly within the object-based timeline, use named labels to cue events,
and
assign interactive behaviors to individual objects.
LiveMotion works with time-based rather than frame-based animation, and it
supports native layered Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files. Additionally,
LiveMotion offers extreme flexibility by offering output options to a wide
range of graphics
formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG, Photoshop, and the popular SWF format.
LiveMotion will also support the W3C’s Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format
in a future release of the product.
LiveMotion is tightly integrated with Adobe’s family of professional Web
design tools for the Web and dynamic media, including Adobe GoLive(TM),
Adobe
Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe After Effects.
Adobe LiveMotion 1.0 is available immediately in the U.S. and Canada for an
estimated street price of U.S. $299. The Adobe Web Collection 2.0,
containing Adobe LiveMotion 1.0, Adobe GoLive 5.0, Adobe Illustrator 9.0,
and Adobe Photoshop 5.5, will be available US $999 shortly after Illustrator
9.0 and GoLive 5.0 ship in the U.S. and Canada. Pricing and availability,
such as promotional activities of LiveMotion, may vary by region. Customers
should check their local Adobe website for details.
Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems Incorporated builds award-winning software
solutions for Web and print publishing. Its graphic design, imaging, dynamic
media, and authoring tools enable customers to create, publish, and deliver
visually rich content for various types of media. Headquartered in San Jose,
California, Adobe is the third largest U.S.-based personal software company,
with annual revenues exceeding $1billion.
