Announcing FormFonts 3D

Press Release

Announcing FormFonts 3D

San Luis Obispo, CA, November 2, 2005. FormFonts 3D is a new subscription
web service that provides unlimited on-line access to a low-polygon 3D model database.

The FormFonts 3D service is aimed at designers who need a large model library from which to rapidly prototype 3D worlds: gamers, architects, landscape architects, industrial designers, and pre-viz artists working in theatre and film. FormFonts is the first web service to offer quarterly subscriptions to a 3D database. Users download whatever they need for only $11.00/month, calculated quarterly. Uniquely affordable in the world of 3D models, FormFonts is accessible to large firms, design professionals working independently or in small firms, and even to students. Users can rapidly build complex 3D worlds by simply dragging and dropping 3D models from FormFonts into their preferred 3D design tool. FormFonts supports common 3D file formats, including SketchUp, 3D Studio Max and AutoCAD, so 3D artists, who often need to use multiple 3D tools, can use FormFonts with ease.

FormFonts counts celebrates its first birthday on January 1, 2006, but already counts among its clients some of the world's largest design firms, including Anshen + Allen in San Francisco, known for its hospitals, libraries and science centers.

For more information, visit FormFonts at www.formfonts.com . Free sample models can be accessed by typing free into the search engine.

Fred Abler, FormFonts CEO, says the growing demand for 3D models is driven by Non Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) technologies, originally developed for video game consoles, but quickly crossing over into mainstream CAD and 3D modelers like SketchUp. So-called NPR shaders are small software programs that allow different graphical styles to be applied to the same 3D geometry.
Typically hard-edged 3D geometry can now be rendered in flexible styles to emulate hand-drawn sketches, cartoons, watercolor or oil paintings, and several other types of traditional media as well.

Because NPR lets 3D models so closely resemble hand drawings and analog design methods, Abler believes 3D models will soon be a fundamental component of the first stages of the design process in many fields. ³Once we begin to embrace the 3D design paradigm, we can't possibly model each and every object by hand. Designers are going to need a vast supply of easily searchable 3D models on demand. FormFonts is that source. We are the Google of 3D models. FormFonts employs a global team of professional 3D artists who add to the 3D database 24/7, often responding directly to requests from subscribers in a matter of hours. Additional file types will be added as requested.

FormFonts.com is in partnership with @Last Software in Boulder Colorado, and is the preferred content provider for SketchUp. SketchUp is a registered trademark of @Last Software. FormFonts.com is also a business partner and preferred content provider for CADSoft Corporation in Geulph, Ontario, Canada.
FormFonts (sm) is a registered trade and servicemark of FormFonts Inc. All Rights reserved.