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CineGraphics is a software development company specializing in plugins and utilities for Newtek's LightWave 3D animation package. The company, located in San Diego, California was founded with the mission of bringing high-end tools, utilities and enhancements to LightWave users. In 1994, CineGraphics released the first commercially available set of tools (macros) for LightWave, PowerMacros. The package contained over 15 macros that performed such functions as making simple pie charts, creating individual swarming motions for hundreds of objects, shattering, and realistically blowing up objects. With the migration of LightWave from the Amiga platform to an Intel based PC, CineGraphics followed with the release of PowerPlugins, the PC port of its predecessor, PowerMacros. As the need for complex character animation and manipulation grew within the LightWave community, CineGraphics provided a solution. KeyPro is the first stand alone application from CineGraphics that provides LightWave users with powerful scene editing tools found only in higher end animation packages. The latest stand alone applications recently developed include GeoBrowse, Screen Saver Maker and the long awaited UView. GeoBrowse is a utility used to view LightWave objects without the use of Modeler. This is convenient when showing objects to clients who do not have access to LightWave. Screen Saver Maker displays a LightWave scene as a custom Windows95/NT OpenGL screen saver. Users can show off their favorite animation projects, or go into the business of creating custom 3D screen savers. UView was created to fill the needs of real-time game designers as well as traditional 3D animators. Users can now map images/textures to objects parametrically. LightWave users are no longer limited to planar, spherical and cylyndrical texture projections. CineGraphics intends on providing 3D animators/modelers with the solutions they need in a constantly expanding and demanding market.