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3D-Ace company overview

Quality-oriented 3D Modeling and Animation Studio

© 3D-Ace 2014

Contents

1. 3D-Ace Company Overview

2. History

3. Mission and Values

4. Why 3D-Ace

5. Management Team

6. Key Areas Of Expertise

7. Pre-rendering

8. Real-time Rendering

9. Expertise by Solution

10. Industry Expertise

11. Technical Expertise

12. Business Models

13. Business Ethics Guarantee

14. Case Studies

15. Our Customers

16. Contacts

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3D-Ace Company Overview

3D-Ace is an independent 3D modeling studio, previously known as a 3D content production division of Program-Ace Company, located in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Our core activities is production of custom 3D content both low-poly and high-poly 3D models, animation and visual effects that meet our clients’ requirements. We effectively translate customer’s requirements into 3D models of the highest standard.

Quick facts about 3D-Ace

5+ years of experience in 3D;

40+ 3D specialists and related IT

specialists;

100+ clients worldwide;

Over 150 successfully completed

projects;

Custom 3D models delivered to 17

countries of the world.

Oleg Fonarev

CEO, Founder

Benefits we offer:

• 3D-Ace team is comprised of different 3D experts including modelers, texturists, UV mappers, skinners, riggers, animators, 3D generalists.

• We pay great attention to project management to ease the work of our clients.

• We provide free quality assurance service to deliver high-quality 3D content meeting all requirements of our clients.

• We use flexible approach in all aspects of our work and can create 3D assets from 2D engineering drawing, hand sketch, photograph or even from a concept using the latest technologies.

• We provide the opportunity to select between most advantageous business models that exactly fits the needs of a client.


History

Stage 1: Parent Company Formation. Our parent company Program-Ace established in 1993 as a printing house rendering full color printing and graphic design services. Shortly the company started its software development activities and became one of the branch leaders in the field.

Stage 2: 2D/3D Activities Started. Program-Ace started to study 2D/3D market and established CG-Ace company in 2005, which became a creative & graphics production division of Program-Ace, delivering high quality 2D/3D graphics and programming services.

Stage 3: Independent 3D Modeling Studio. In 2009 a part of CG-Ace grew into an independent 3D modeling company 3D-Ace Studio. At the beginning of 2009 3D-Ace Studio specialized on delivering industrial systems of 2D/3D visualization, interactive simulators, and graphics processing modules.

Present: Today 3D-Ace Studio is a market leader in the field, producing custom 3D content, including modeling, animation and visual effects for architecture, advertising and marketing, manufacture, government and military sector.

“I chose 3D-Ace because the works in their 3D portfolio were very near to what I was looking for. The guys showed themselves as a very professional, serious and capable team, they made every effort to establish a good business relationship. I always received timely responses from my project manager, and it was always easy to get help when I needed it. I enjoyed their 3D modeling services and will surely recommend 3D-Ace to others.”

Maurizio de Girolami

1993 - 2005 2005 - 2009 2009 - Present


Our mission is to turn every client into a regular customer.

We are a customer-focused company and treat our clients as potential partners.

Our goals

Continuous improvement in the field of 3D content creation.

Always remain a reliable partner for our customers.

Provide the best cooperation conditions keeping our clients from going to our competitors.

Build long-term relationships with our customers, leading to mutual success.

Our Slogan

3D-Ace is Your Reliable Partner in 3D Modeling

Our Values

Long-term relationship

Trust and mutual respect

Result

Teamwork

Drive for innovations

Favorable conditions for clients

Missions and Values


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Why 3D-Ace

Learn 10 reasons why to use our 3D modeling services:

We offer free testing of our services.

We are trustworthy: along with NDA, we can sign intellectual property (IP) protection and thereby provide our clients with the total ownership of 3D content produced for them.

Being a company, we offer undeniable benefits compared to freelance contractors: no stolen 3D content, no delays, no bugs.

We save money of our clients and offer to use available ready-made 3D models with further optimization to fit their requirements reducing project costs up to 50%.

We are an outsourcing company operating seamlessly across borders and serving customers from 17 countries from different continents (e.g. USA, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and others).

3D-Ace is a customer-focused company: such well-known brands as Digimation, Electronic Arts, Namco Hometek, DTP Entertainment, ValuSoft, Kuju trust their business to us.

We offer quick project estimation: prospective clients can use our calculator to quickly estimate the cost and duration of a future project to make faster and better decisions.

We offer our partners additional benefits, like discount system, priority service, etc.

We provide guarantees: advanced payment amounts to 50%; the rest is paid when the work is done and client is 100% satisfied.

We are engaged in success of our clients: the more positive feedbacks we get, the more people use our services.

“We worked with 3D-ACE for our projects character and weapon model needs. The 3D-ACE team is working in a perfect harmony from the sales team to artists. They are working fast and professional. They have the best team for outsource needs.”

Guvenc Sahin, Owner of Vector Games


Our Team

“3D-ACE has delivered excellent quality 3D modeling work for us on budget and on time. As a demanding client with precision expectations, I am pleased that they rise to the bar each time we challenge them. If you're looking for a professional, dedicated, digital development partner, I highly recommend 3D-ACE. “

Tim Ransom President at Visual Thunder Media


Key Areas Of Expertise

3D-Ace Studio always adapts to the needs of our clients and produces a wide variety of cutting-edge 3D content including low-poly and high-poly 3D models, animation and visual effects. Our vast experience in 3D modeling and innovation-oriented approach allows us to produce 3D assets for real-time applications and visualization tools using pre-rendered 3D content. As a starting point for 3D model creation we use:

1. Professional drawings or sketches. 2. Images in any graphics format like .jpeg, .bitmap, .tiff or others. 3. Stock 3D models with further optimization through adding more polygon counts,

texturing, lighting, etc. to deliver an unmatched 3D assets.

“We did an advertising 3D video animation of medicines for a pharmaceutical company with 3D-Ace. I’ve known them for years as a company with good pricing and speed, broad skillset and sufficient size to take on larger projects if needed. Sales people are always quick to respond and projects can get off the ground very quickly. Project management is solid and the online communication tool works well. I like the quick communication in good English language, the responses from my project manager were always quick and changes were processed fast. I’m content with the projects we have done so far.”

Matijs de Haard,

Operational Manager at 3DIMERCE

Pre-rendering

Real-time Rendering

We are strong in producing custom 3D assets for:

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3D Modeling for Pre-Rendering

3D-Ace follows all modern trends and technologies and produces high-poly 3D models that allow to achieve visual complexity and photorealism of the scene and become a keystone of your animation, presentation or advertising reel.

3D models for pre-rendering are used for object visualization allowing to observe objects from different angles and is widely used to:

illustrate almost any process with breathtaking graphics;

achieve the highest level of detail to produce a real-life impression;

engage clients and raise the chances of successful implementation of your project.

Over the years of rewarding work we have created a variety of three-dimensional models for:

3D Presentations – presentation in cutting-edge 3D format helps to win attention of the audience.

Advertising Reels – we completely understand the advantages of 3D over 2D content in advertising reels and are ready to produce high-quality 3D models for a successful advertising.

3D Catalogs, Brochures – we produce broad-ranging 3D models for catalogs and brochures, which combine 3D object representation with classification and/or other services of classical e-commerce system.

3D Manuals – revolutionary and interactive type of user documentation, which enables intuitive navigation in complex product instructions.


3D Modeling for Real-time Rendering

Interactive 3D environment dips a user into virtual reality and allows him to control what is to be drawn on the screen.

We create low-poly 3D models for interactive applications that strictly correspond to the user’s requirements as to the number of polygons, number and size of textures.

We adapt custom 3D models for any 3D software, supporting .fbx or .obj formats.

Our vast experience in creating low-poly 3D models for real-time applications enables us to produce custom 3D models for:

Interactive Walkthrough/Flythrough - interactive walkthroughs take the user into an exciting and dynamic virtual world, where the user takes control of what is about to happen. It can be used to simulate the reconstruction of a physical location, planned architectural projects and many more.

Virtual Training and Simulators - virtual trainings allow to get a real-life experience in simulated 3D environment, allowing a user to perform actions like in the real world: walk or run through the environment pursuing some educational objectives (e.g. military training, evacuation training, car driving simulators, etc.).


Expertise by Solution

Acting as independent 3D modeling and animation studio for more than 5 years we successfully utilize our knowledge and experience to produce cutting-edge 3D content for a wide variety of applications, both real-time and those using pre-rendered 3D content. We combine our modeling and management skills to offer our clients top-quality 3D assets for:

3D Walkthrough /Flythrough

Architectural Visualization

Virtual Training

3D Simulator

Advertising Reel

3D Catalog

3D City

3D Manual

3D Presentation

Product/Object Modeling


Industry Expertise

Over the years of our work in 3D field we touched most areas one can work with including advertising and marketing, government and military institutions, manufacturing and educational sectors and many others.

We are wizards who can bring your vision to fruition with the highest level of performance.

We are familiar with the unique issues and needs of different industrial sectors, providing cutting-edge 3D media, which helps our clients to reach their strategic and operational objectives.

Here is a short list of our expertise:

Advertising and Marketing

Architecture

Education

Government and Military

Manufacture

Oil and Gas

Medicine

Media


Technical Expertise

To effectively produce cutting-edge 3D content including 3D models, animation and visual effects for world brands and smaller businesses requires the mastery of many skills and tools. And here are some of ours.

Our skillset:

Modeling

Rigging

Skinning

Lighting

Texturing

Compositing

Animation and Visual Effects

3D software tools we use:

3ds Max;

Autodesk Maya;

Zbrush, Mudbox;

Adobe Photoshop;

and using V-Ray and Mental Ray for rendering.


Dedicated Team

3D-Ace is a customer-oriented company and we consider it our duty to offer our clients a cooperation model that perfectly fits customer project needs and business requirements.

We provide the possibility to choose between Fixed Price and Dedicated Artists business models.

We also assume an option when some features of both models can be combined into one for the profit of our clients.

Flexible contract terms

Extension of your development team

Flexibility of team

Strong PM and free QA

IP Protection and NDA

Fixed estimation of project costs

Clearly predefined requirements and timelines

On-time, on-budget delivery

Low-risk option

Exact development plan

Business Models

Fixed Price


Business Ethics Guarantee

When you entrust your project to 3D-Ace, you can be sure of our reliability and highest business ethics principles. We do our best to protect your data, materials and information and here are just a few ways of how we ensure security of your project:

NDA

Being a reliable and time-proven 3D modeling company, we maintain a very strict internal policy and operational rules for all our employees. That is why each 3D-Ace employee signs Employee NDA, which prevents disclosure of any confidential information.

IP Protection

According to IP Protection agreement all materials, drawings, sketches and documentation provided by our customers and produced by 3D-Ace during a project fulfillment fully belongs to our Customer.

3D-Ace is under obligation, and does not use any materials produced for clients. After the project completion, all materials are transferred to the Customer.

When the Customer has confirmed successful receipt, all electronic copies of this data will be deleted.


Case Studies

Unique interactive high-end 3D architectural visualization of new generation for new apartments, buildings, complexes, resorts and whole city districts.

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Interactive 3D multiuser application with high degree of realism that simulates different emergency situations requiring urgent evacuation.

“We interviewed about a dozen of 3D modeling companies for this very important application, as we had a need for analysis of evacuation routes before the building was actually build. We also planned to use Emergency Evacuation Simulator for teaching office staff at a later stage. We ended up choosing 3D-Ace Studio because they offered the best overall package (best quality portfolio and customer service) and they really understood what we needed to accomplish. They delivered a high end product ahead of time. I can confidently recommend 3D-Ace Studio as a reliable 3D modeling partner and our company will surely use their services again and again.”

Daryl Boots

Interactive 3D application designated for architects, real estate agencies, and urban designers based on detailed 3D model of city.

High-end 3D graphics available for in-browser playing and for implementing a multipurpose server platform, maintaining functionality of modern Internet casinos.

3D Online Casino Architectural 3D Visualization

Emergency Evacuation Simulator Exterior Architectural Application

Oil Platform Simulator Military Training Interactive military training designed to train military forces on how to act in different combat situations. It reconstructs the realistic warlike environment.

Realistic 3D simulator of an oil platform for teaching personnel, simulating the working processes and working out the emergency evacuation plan.


Interactive High-End Architectural 3D Visualization

Visual quality, level of detailing, and interactivity give the users life-like experience and even more:

Photo-realistic quality of all the objects supplemented with special effects and high refinement;

Complete interactivity, an opportunity to interact with objects and dynamic content allows the user to be fully dipped in the virtual world;

User-friendly interface and convenient navigation allow easy travelling from one part of the building to another;

Possibility to change lighting, time of the day and even weather conditions make it real for the client;

Our visualizations can be created in full HD, which in addition to ability to adapt our visualizations to almost any kind of demonstration systems, makes them a perfect option for exhibitions and high-level presentations.

Business functionality such as search by parameters, booking and much more will change demonstration application into a comprehensive business tool.

Program-Ace presents the unique interactive 3D architectural visualization of new generation for new apartments, buildings, complexes, resorts and whole city districts. The key of our new system is a top-level combination of interactivity and visual quality.

Our 3D visualization systems allow the users to dive into the atmosphere of beautiful architecture in the measure never given before.

Case Studies

Target Group

architects when presenting new projects and preparing demonstrations for their clients;

design studios and advertising agencies that will extend the range of their services for their clients using our services;

real estate owners who can stand out of their competitors on any exhibition using such architectural visualizations.

Customer: NDA

Duration: 6 Month

Team size: 15

Technologies: Ace3DEngine, 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, V-Ray

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Exterior Architectural Application

Features:

The interactive architectural 3D visualization incorporates the following features:

Photo real virtual tour through the whole city district;

Advanced level od detail without the loss of quality:

dynamic area shadows ;

advanced shading models;

reflections in the windows;

water effects with per–pixel reflections and refractions, depth toning and ripples animation;

soft particle intersections with environment;

landscape rendering (texture blending for landscapes);

atmospheric effects (e.g. fog, dust, steam, light shafts, etc.);

real-time dispersion and refractions of light.

Advanced lighting effects - proper sunlight at specific latitude and longitude at different time of year and day.

Target Group

Customers who wish to present and promote architectural facilities, as well as use advanced interactive architectural visualization for research and evaluation of urban designs.

Advantages

Interactive Architectural Visualization

offers the following benefits:

• top-notch technologies and in-house 3D engine;

• unmatched 3D interface of the outstanding quality;

• believable atmosphere of a modern city;

• rear combination of interactivity and top-quality of 3D content.

Customer: NDA

Duration: 12 months

Team size: 8

Technologies: Ace3dEngine, 3ds Max,

Adobe Photoshop, V-Ray

Interactive Architectural 3D Visualization is an virtual tour through a detailed 3D model of city and surrounding area.

Main approach: to combine the power of a 3D engine for real-time rendering and top-quality of 3D architectural solutions.

Case Studies

Oil Platform Simulator

OPS addresses such vital requirements of oil and gas industry as the increased demand for skills training and improvement among constantly changing teams, highest planning and management standards, serious risks for human health and safety.

This realistic simulator of the oil platform was designed for teaching personnel, simulating the working processes and working out the emergency evacuation plan.

The system is based on proprietary Ace3D Engine and, therefore, includes a number of advanced features, such as:

Photorealistic presentation of environment and branch-specific items; Simulation of all working processes and emergency situations related to the platform’s daily

operation; Technically accurate 3D models containing finest equipment details, realistic texturing and

lighting, strict number of polygons and texture files for real-time rendering with no loss in image quality.

Oil Platform Simulator (OPS) belongs to such type of interactive 3D solutions, which are always created in partnership between industrial experts and IT specialists.

Substantial experience in creating 3D interface for high-end 3D simulators allows 3D-Ace to produce and deploy 3D content of any quality: from simple low-poly models up to photo-realistic high-polygon 3D assets.

Oil Platform Simulator is a highly

customized product, which can be easily

adjusted to the needs and peculiarity of

each company or training course. That

means that OPS’s key advantages

definitely include also flexibility and

scalability.

Thus, Oil Platform Simulator opens new

possibilities — first of all, for offshore

platform owners and operators, as well

as for specialized training agencies and

centers involved into the education and

testing of specialists for oil and gas

industry.

Customer: NDA

Duration: 7 months

Team size: 6

Technologies: Unity3d, PHP/MySQL


Case Studies

Emergency Evacuation Simulator

This interactive simulator was aimed to address the following issues:

analyze the evacuation route and find its weaknesses; teach staff how to act in emergency situations and find the way out.

Main approach in creation of realistic 3D interface for Emergency Evacuation Simulator:

we created precise 3D model of a 5-storey office building, including interior scenes and furniture items. We used AutoCAD 2D drawings of floor plans as working backgrounds for the models;

along with creation of 3D models, we applied proper lighting and texturing techniques to obtain the desired result;

we added different visual effects like smoke, fire, etc. to simulate different emergency situations and add realism to the scene;

we created animation and simulated human movements reminding the loss of orientation due to the health damage;

our artists modeled as many random people (bots) as it was required to run the training in realistic conditions.

Target Group

Administration and employees of large

office buildings, airports, railway and

subway stations, shopping centers,

plants and factories, research institutes

and scientific laboratories; also

governmental and non–governmental

organizations responsible for fire safety.

Advantages

reduces the expenditures related to

regular emergency training of

employees;

performs training in a highly

realistic environment;

avoids a long, messy and exhausting

real–life evacuation drill;

you can run the training as many

times as it is necessary to brush up

the evacuation procedure;

tunes your emergency action plan;

Allows to check whether your

building corresponds to the

requirements of safe evacuation.

Customer: NDA

Platforms: Web, Windows

Duration: 10 months

Team size: 5

Technologies:Ace3dEngine, PHP/MySQL

Emergency Evacuation Simulator is an interactive 3D client-server multiuser application with high degree of realism that simulates different emergency situations requiring urgent evacuation.

Main purpose of this application is to analyze the effectiveness of evacuation path, and understand people behavior and movement characteristics during emergency evacuation.

Interactive simulation is a powerful tool since real data on building evacuation are rarely available and costly to obtain.


Case Studies

3D Online Casino

Approach: 3D-Ace team produced high-quality 3D graphics for on-line gambles (roulette, black jack, poker games, and video slot machines) utilizing the whole range of 3D technologies and 3D modeling software. As a result we created realistic full-functional 3D interface for games that run directly in the Internet and allow the Internet users to fully plunge into the fascinating world of a virtual casino.

Resources:

Dedicated team of 2D/3D artists, 3D animators, analysts and managers Internal business analytics activities to investigate specific casino games Internal R&D activities — as the basis for specific 3D solutions Valuable experience in joint use of client-server Web solutions and 3D technologies.

Conclusion:

3D-Ace team together with Program-Ace has successfully completed a truly large-scale project utilizing our experience, expertise and the whole range of technologies. The success of this project would not be possible without close cooperation within different departments and divisions of one company. Thanks to the joint efforts of 3D-Ace and our parent company Program-Ace this project runs successfully on the Internet and serves thousands of players from all over the world.

Target Group

The users of the Internet – particularly

the citizens of the states the laws of

which allow them to gamble.

Customer: Tropical Gaming LLC

Duration: 12

Team size: 4

Technologies: PHP/MySQL;

C++/Direct3D/Ace 3D Engine; Ruby-on-

Rails.

3D-Ace together with Program-Ace developed a multi-purpose server platform that supports the whole functionality of a modern Internet casino and has high-end 3D graphics.

Goal:

To develop cutting-edge 3D interface for the modern Internet casino.

Challenge:

Creation of high-end 3D content that could be displayed even on low-budget computers with integrated video cards.

"The unique combination of 3D and WEB technologies and also the allocated R&D and analytical teams is one of the main distinguishing features of Program-Ace. They make our company a reliable partner to implement long-term and complex high-tech solutions of the enterprise level", - comments.“

Oleg Fonarov, CEO Program-Ace


Case Studies

Military Training

Military training is an interactive application jointly developed by 3D-Ace and Program-Ace for training military forces on how to act in different warlike situations.

Key requirement:

To reconstruct the realistic combat environment and ensure high level of interactivity enabling users to work through various situations that can happen to troops.

“3D-Ace was our IT partner in developing an interactive 3D multi-user simulator. We were glad to cooperate with them as their team showed a high level of proficiency and delivered us a high-quality solution on time and on budget. Program-Ace team helped us to develop this 3D application and its 3D division 3D-Ace Studio did the modeling part…”

Jonathan Bernand, CEO at Military Time

Approach: 3D-Ace Studio produced custom 3D environment for the Interactive Military Training, including 3D models of weapons, military vehicles, soldiers, etc. Our technical expertise in the field of 3D modeling, lighting, texturing, and animation allowed us to achieve absolutely new level of realism. We paid great attention to models’ geometry, applied realistic textures, used appropriate lighting sources, shadows and added visual effects to increase the perception of the situation by participants.

We simulated different processes and phenomenon like:

Fire, explosions or other damages caused by shooting with different weapons, etc. Natural phenomenon including smog, clouds, changing light conditions (depending on the sun

position), etc. Human movements that is running, walking, jumping, crouching, etc.

Project Benefits:

Cost savings – when creating 3D assets for this military training we offered our client an opportunity to use some existing 3D models from our library with further customization to keep the project costs down. Convincing environment – the use of advanced 3D technologies enabled our artists to create first-grade 3D graphics ensuring high-realism of the scenes.

Target group

Military organizations, training centers,

teaching soldiers and military personnel

how to act in different combat

situations.

Customer: Military Time

Duration: 12

Team size: 8

Technologies: PHP/MySQL;

C++/Direct3D/Ace 3D Engine; Ruby-on-

Rails.


Case Studies

Our Customers

Our company’s experience in 3D modeling market is more than 5 years and for that time we successfully completed more than 150 projects for well-recognized customers from 17 countries of the world. We can confidently say that 3D modeling services provided by 3D-Ace Studio always meet our clients' business goals and regular customers are the best proof of our competence and reliability.

Industries /Vertical Markets

Architecture Government and Civil Defense Advertising and Marketing Manufacture Education Medicine Oil and Gas Training Centers Media

Production /Horizontal Markets

Architectural Visualizations Walkthroughs/Flythroughs Virtual Trainings 3D Simulators 3D Presentations 3D Catalogs 3D Advertising Reels Product/Object Modeling


Among our clients there are also some world's recognized organizations and brands specializing in different fields, like advertising, architecture, education, government, military and manufacture. We are proud to name some of our clients who trusted their business to our company:

Contacts

Address: 56, Poltavsky Shlyah Mail Address: P.O.Box 9207 Kharkiv Kharkiv 61052, Ukraine 61085, Ukraine Phones: USA Ukraine +1 347 53 53 543 +38 057 712 21 80 +38 057 759 85 90 E-mail: [email protected] Skype: contact.3d-ace

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