ADVISORY/Lucent Technologies to Host Live Conference Call and Webcast Today for Launch of New Venture in Facial Animation, Face2face Animation, Inc.Business and Technology Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday (April 4) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Nickelodeon Initial Beta Customer for New Face2Face Software; Cuts Production Time, Expense for TV, Internet Lucent Technologies today launches a new venture, face2face animation, which will license software for professional television, electronic games Electronic Games was the first video game magazine published in the United States and ran from 1981 to 1985. Co-founded by Arnie Katz, Joyce Worley and Bill Kunkel, it is unrelated to the subsequent Electronic Gaming Monthly. , and Internet animators Famous animators no longer living
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WHAT: Launch of a new venture from Lucent's New Ventures Group --
face2face animation, inc. -- that offers breakthrough facial
animation software for television and Internet animators
WHERE: A live Webcast at www.f2f-inc.com and a live teleconference
call at 800-230-1074; international callers should dial
612-332-0107
WHEN: Today, Tuesday, April 4, 2000, at 11:30 am EST for the live
Webcast and conference call
WHO: Stephen Clemente, CEO of face2face animation
Eric Petajan, chief scientist of face2face animation
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