Every year, Ballistic Publishing invites the world's best artists to submit their finest digital character creations to its EXOTIQUE series. Like each book before it, EXOTIQUE 6 received a record number of entries from artists in more countries than ever before -- 3,000 entries from 823 artists in 71 countries.

Drawing from such a vibrant community of artists, EXOTIQUE 6 stands apart as the best collection of new character art with almost half of the artists being published for the first time.

Like all Ballistic Publishing books, the artists and art in EXOTIQUE 6 are the heroes. Every image is carefully color-corrected to ensure that it's as vibrant and detailed as the artist's original vision. Each layout is assembled to show off the artwork at its best with sympathetic styles and color palettes, and when the artwork demands a full-spread or full-page, it is given its rightful space. EXOTIQUE 6 features eleven amazing double-page spreads and 93 full-page images, showing the artwork in its best possible light.

Mixamo Inc. announced today that Climax Studios has selected the online 3D animation service as an animation partner for a yet-to-be-announced title to be released in 2011.  Climax cited Mixamo's revolutionary animation features relating to real-time customization of high-quality animations and automatic retargeting of motions to any character model as the main reasons for their selection of the service.

"Mixamo represents an exciting addition to 3D animation in the game industry, one where studios are able to make the best use of their art production resources within increasingly constrained budgets," says Simon Gardner, Chief Executive Officer of Climax Studios. "We will take full advantage of Mixamo's online motion customization and retargeting features to maximize the quality of animation content that we will feature in our upcoming project."

"Mixamo has established itself in the game industry as a powerful animation resource for AAA game studios like Climax to help them leverage their art production efforts more efficiently," says Mixamo Co-founder and CEO, Nazim Kareemi. "All game developers look for ways to accomplish more creatively and stylistically without compromising their budgets.  Mixamo provides several groundbreaking technologies that allow these studios to do just that for their 3D animation efforts."

For more information about Mixamo's online, real-time automatic features, visit www.mixamo.com.