Illuminate Labs expands with establishment of US office
Swedish games lighting technology company Illuminate Labs establishes first North American filial in San Francisco, focused on technical sales and consulting.
Gothenburg, Sweden, October 7th, 2009 – Illuminate Labs™, creators of world leading lighting solutions for the games industry, today announced the opening of their first US office, located in downtown San Francisco at 100 Montgomery Street.
The office will focus on technical sales and on-site consulting. The office will be spearheaded by Illuminate Labs lead engineer David Larsson, who has been with Illuminate Labs since 2004 and has been involved in most every aspect of the development of both the Beast™ and Turtle™ products.
“We are making this move in order to provide a higher level of service to our existing clients and partners as well as to help respond to the growing interest we are seeing from new studios that are evaluating our lighting technology,” says Magnus Wennerholm, CEO of Illuminate Labs.
For more information about Illuminate Labs, and its products, please contact sales@illuminatelabs.com or visit www.illuminatelabs.com.
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About Illuminate Labs
Illuminate Labs’ lighting solutions, based on the proprietary LiquidLight® technology, are used in many of the most exciting game titles, including America’s Army 3 (U.S. Army), God of War III (Sony Computer Entertainment Santa Monica), Gran Turismo (Polyphony Digital), Killzone 2 (Guerrilla), Mirror’s Edge (EA Dice), and WET (A2M). Illuminate Labs’ solutions combine state of the art global illumination with an efficient workflow to shorten production time and reduce costs.
About Illuminate Labs’ products
Illuminate Labs’ Beast™ is a content pipeline tool used for advanced global illumination and dynamic relighting of characters. Beast has been successfully integrated with Unreal Engine, Gamebryo, Gamebryo LightSpeed, Evolution Engine, and several in-house game engines.
Turtle™ is Illuminate Labs’ product for Autodesk Maya and the only product on the market that combines advanced rendering technology with sophisticated baking functionality in a single integrated toolset.