All seven Academy Award motion picture finalists use Discreet Logic technology to create champion visual effects; INFERNO, FLAME and FLINT used in all three nominated blockbuster productions.

MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 1997--Discreet Logic (Nasdaq:DSLGF), a leading developer of visual effects, editing and broadcast production tools, Monday announced that its effects products were used by digital artists in all seven of the finalists selected for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscars best achievement in visual effects category.

The final three nominations for this category were recently announced as ``Twister,'' ``Dragonheart'' and ``Independence Day.''

Leading visual effects artists used Discreet Logic's FLAME, FLINT and INFERNO digital effects systems in each of the seven films selected as finalists, which also included ``Mars Attacks!,'' ``The Nutty Professor,'' ``Mission: Impossible'' and ``Star Trek: First Contact.''

``On behalf of Discreet Logic, I congratulate all of the visual artists and facilities whose work and talent is being recognized by the Academy,'' said Richard Szalwinski, president and chief executive officer of Discreet Logic.

``We constantly strive to provide the digital tools necessary for visual innovators to expand the realms of realism. It is a compliment to our efforts that Discreet Logic systems are consistently chosen to express such creativity and vision.''

In the Twentieth Century Fox feature film, ``Independence Day,'' Pacific Ocean Post's team of visual effects wizards used Discreet Logic's INFERNO to create unbridled mayhem, providing a staggering 350 visual effects shots in 144 minutes.

In the ``Wall of Destruction,'' a 10 minute sequence where the aliens begin burning cities, INFERNO was used to attach flames to the destroyer, and make the fire look thick and dangerous in appearance. On top of that, 10 to 12 different layers of debris, model cars, trucks and blue-screen elements of people running were used.

``We did so much effects-intensive work on Independence Day that we simply could not have done without Discreet Logic technology,'' said Pablo Helman, Pacific Ocean Post's digital compositing supervisor on Independence Day. ``With INFERNO and FLAME we had so many different ways to approach projects. We were always able to come up with something new.'' Helman has since joined Industrial Light & Magic.

In ``Twister,'' an Amblin Entertainment production, the crew relied on digital illusions created by the team at Industrial Light & Magic. Jeff Doran used Discreet Logic's FLINT extensively to ``change the weather'' and to create what is arguably the film's most spectacular scene.

As two ``storm chasers,'' played by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, attempt to get closer to one of the largest twisters, a full size tanker emerges from the dervish and hurtles toward the couple. To achieve this effect a full-scale model of a tanker, weighing in excess of 15,000 pounds, was suspended from a crane and swung directly at the actors.

The shot took place on a sunny day so FLINT was used to take away the shadow of the tanker flying overhead, darken the sky and add all the flying debris.

In the Universal production, ``Dragonheart,'' Industrial Light & Magic use Discreet Logic technology to bring the 18 foot high, 43 foot long digitally created dragon, Draco, to life. The creature was digitally composited into medieval scenery and sequences involving live actors.

About The Discreet Logic Effects Line

INFERNO is the pinnacle of Discreet Logic's digital production environment. INFERNO supports high-resolution data handling for standard film and video formats, while remaining a valuable special effects tool for commercials, music videos, broadcast, feature films and interactive media.

INFERNO provides up to 12-bits color depth per channel along with high spatial-image resolution. The system also features tools for grain and noise management, wire and scratch removal, color calibration and enhanced I/O routines.

Features, accessible through an integrated, intuitive gestural interface, include a state-of-the-art Keyer, Warper, Action module, SoftClips Stabilizer, Tracker, Paint, Rotoscoping, On-Line 3-D and digital audio capabilities.

FLAME is Discreet Logic's award-winning on-line system for high-end visual effects creation for commercials, music videos, television programming, feature films and interactive media, including the World Wide Web. FLAME provides real-time interactivity enabling the immediate feedback required for true on-line experimentation and client-driven design.

FLINT is Discreet Logic's visual effects production system offering the core feature set of the well known FLAME visual effects system but on the desktop. FLINT runs on the Indigo2 IMPACT from Silicon Graphics Inc..

The system offers burst mode input and output of noncompressed D1 imagery and integrates easily into tape-based or nonlinear, on-line or off-line suites. FLINT can also be used in conjunction with FLAME and INFERNO for offloading tasks such as color correction, keying and complex effects creation.

About Discreet Logic

Discreet Logic, based in Montreal, develops and supports nonlinear, on-line, digital systems for creating, editing and compositing imagery and special effects for film, video, audio and broadcast. The company's systems are used by creative professionals for a variety of applications: feature films, television programs, commercials, music videos, interactive game production and live broadcasting.

Through direct contact with digital artists, editors, audio engineers, production and broadcasting specialists, Discreet Logic offers technology designed to meet the present and future needs of content creators. Discreet Logic is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the symbol DSLGF.

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