eZedia Joins Forces with Animation Factory for Animated GIFs

WINNIPEG, Canada--(Dec. 4, 2000)--eZedia Inc. a leader in digital media software technology, today announced it has signed a licensing agreement with Animation Factory to provide over 500 animated GIF images with their eZediaMX media integration software. A powerful, yet easy-to-learn software system for digital media integration, eZediaMX enables any computer user to receive, generate, modify, edit, recreate, reformat, and re-present any and all digital media.

"We are delighted to have established this alliance with eZedia as we feel eZediaMX provides leading-edge capabilities for users to combine images, videos, graphics, and animations for all kinds of communications purposes," said Art Holden, Director and Lead Animator of Animation Factory. "Along with the animations we provide, we think users in general will enjoy the ability to create digital media productions right out of the box."

"The collection of Animation Factory images and animations provide users of eZediaMX with even more ways to wow," said Art Monk, CEO eZedia Inc. "Animation Factory has a very broad collection of images, clip art, and animations that our users will be able to draw upon extensively for a wide range of communications projects and digital media productions."

About eZediaMX

eZediaMX 2.0 is far more than typical presentation software. It is a new way to integrate digital media to communicate knowledge, information, and ideas. It enables users to create multimedia reports, interactive training programs, electronic image archives, voice and audio overlays, and complex media sequences that branch and flow based on user input. All of this is accomplished within an extremely simple environment where users can drag and drop media objects and connect them with various control objects to create sophisticated digital media productions.

About Animation Factory

Animation Factory, founded in 1996 by Jim Maloney and Art Holden, is the Internet's leading provider of GIF images and animations. The collection, included with eZediaMX, has been created by an experienced team of animators and is only a fraction of the over 100,000 animations available free or as a member through the company's Web site at www.animfactory.com. Acquired in 1999 by Andover.Net, Animation Factory is now part of a powerful on-line IT network providing content, e-commerce and subscription services to web developers, programmers and IT professionals around the globe.

About eZedia Inc.

Founded in 1994, by Stefan Embleton, eZedia Inc. has grown from a full-service interactive digital media development organization to a leader in digital media software technology. The company derives its name from the phrase "easy media" which underscores its corporate focus on the delivery of easy-to-use and easy-to-learn digital media creation, authoring, and development products. The management team includes industry veterans from Hewlett-Packard, PointBase, Saba, Rolls Royce, Bristol Aerospace, Boeing, and the music publishing division of Oxford University Press. For more information about eZedia Inc. please call 204-984-9214 or visit the Company's web site at http://www.ezedia.com.