Gothenburg, Sweden - January 12th,
2010 - Illuminate LabsTM, creators of world leading lighting solutions for the
games industry, today announced the release of the new TurtleTM 5.1 version for Autodesk
Maya 2010.

Based on the same core
lighting technology, LiquidLight®, as the world's leading game lighting middleware,
BeastTM, the brand new Turtle 5.1 includes several new features boosting
productivity as well as visual quality.

"Titles like Dante's Inferno, Dragon Age: Origins, EVE Online and God of
War III prove Turtle to be a lighting tool that any Maya game studio should
consider." says Magnus Wennerholm, CEO.

To test drive the new Turtle
5.1,visit the website.

For Costings contact leigh@touchvision.co.za  

About Illuminate Labs

Illuminate Labs' lighting
solutions, based on the proprietary LiquidLight® technology, are used in many
of the most exciting game titles like Dante's Inferno (EA), Dragon Age: Origins
(BioWare), EVE Online (CCP Games), God of War III (SCEA), Gran Turismo
(Polyphony Digital), Killzone 2 (Guerrilla) and Tomb Raider Underworld (Crystal
Dynamics). The solutions combine state of the art global illumination with an
efficient workflow to shorten production time and to reduce cost.

About the products

TurtleTM is a sophisticated
rendering and baking plug-in for Autodesk Maya used for lighting and content
creation in next-gen game development. With Turtle you can easily bake stunning
global illumination for your game levels into texture maps, vertex maps or point
clouds. Other features include the baking of occlusion and normal maps from
highly detailed models to low polygon models. The combination of great global
illumination and a comprehensive set of baking tools make Turtle the perfect
fit for game developers using Maya.

BeastTM is a content pipeline tool used for advanced global illumination and
dynamic character relighting. Beast has been integrated with numerous in-house
game engines as well as commercial game engines like Unreal Engine 3, Gamebryo
LightSpeed, and Evolution Engine.