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For more information, contact: Mike Clifton mclifton@lostmarble.com Lost Marble Unveils 2D Vector Based Animation Tool For Be Operating System Moho on BeOS Brings PC Animators a New Concept in 2D Animation NEW YORK, NY, June 22, 1999 -- Lost Marble, a leading developer of professional multimedia applications, today unveiled Moho for BeOS®, a 2D, vector-based animation program at PC Expo in New York. Moho is a complete 2D animation system for BeOS for professional and hobbyist animators. Moho provides a complete set of tools to easily create exciting 2D animation. BeOS is an operating system designed for digital media applications on desktop computers and Internet appliances. Moho contains a vector-based drawing component that makes it suitable for illustration tasks. The animation tools include manipulators for controlling skeletons, inverse kinematics, which give users the ability to grab and move a character's bone structure and freely experiment with a character's pose. Moho is also well suited to be used in conjunction with video. With its multi-layer and text animation capabilities, you can import movies as backgrounds and animate text over the sequence of images. This makes Moho useful for simple video titling, scrolls and crawls, or custom complex text deformation. Moho will be available in early July and will require BeOS Release 4.5 or higher. "Moho gives PC animators the tools to get their job done in the quickest, most efficient and creative manner possible," said Mike Clifton founder of Lost Marble. "We chose to develop Moho for BeOS because it delivered on performance enhancements unlike legacy operating systems that were extremely sluggish. Moho users will truly reap the benefits of multiprocessor support when rendering batch files on BeOS." "Moho is a tremendous addition to the BeOS family of software products," said JudeAnn Smith, Video and Imaging Evangelist for Be Inc. "It is wonderful to see a product that is truly unique for 2D animators and that takes advantage of our multi-threaded capabilities." # # # About Lost Marble Lost Marble was founded in 1999 with the mission of developing media design software that takes advantage of the unique possibilities made possible by BeOS. More information on Lost Marble and Moho is available on the web at http://www.lostmarble.com/. About Be® Be Incorporated, founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassée, is a software company focused on delivering an operating system designed for digital media applications and Internet appliances. With a team of industry-leading engineers and business executives in the United States and Europe, the company is dedicated to removing the limitations of existing computer architectures and delivering a new level of price/performance for digital media applications on both personal computers and Internet appliances. Additional information on Be and BeOS is available online at http://www.be.com/. Be is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Be and BeOS are registered trademarks of Be Incorporated. Other brand product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. All rights reserved.

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