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History and Prizes

History

1990 DEC Established as a limited company.
Started business with main focus on control software development.
(Control system development, toys with microcomputers.)
1991
Started developing software for game consoles.
1993
Started developing software for arcade game machines.
1997 APR Created the computer graphics (CG) department and started visual-focused system development as well as commercial and multimedia title creation.
2001 SEP Watercolor rendering engine adopted for "Technological Development Modeled Contents Creation Support Project" (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry budget, METI, Japan).
2003 APR Chosen for the 2003 "Regional Revitalization Consortium, Research and Development Project" of METI (Japan).
2003 JUL Started sales of PSOFT brand in-house produced products.
Released software synthesizer "PSOFT VOID Modular System" (Windows).
Released color pencil rendering 3DCG plug-in software "PSOFT Pencil+" (for Autodesk 3ds Max).
2004 APR Chosen for the 2004 "Regional Revitalization Consortium, Research and Development Project" of METI (Japan).
Re-organized as a public company.
Released water color rendering 3DCG plug-in "PSOFT Liquid+" (for Autodesk 3ds Max).

DEC Introduced "PHISYX Sound Technology", a time stretch and pitch shift engine.
2005 JAN Released time and pitch scaling software "PSOFT CHRONOStream" (Windows).
  NOV Released time and pitch scaling software "PSOFT CHRONOStream2" (Windows).
2006 DEC Released color pencil rendering 3DCG plug-in software "PSOFT Pencil+ 2" (for Autodesk 3ds Max).
2007 OCT "PHISYX Sound Technology" patented in Japan (patent no. 4031813).
  DEC Released color pencil rendering 3DCG plug-in "PSOFT Pencil+ 2 Network License" (for Autodesk 3ds Max).
2008 FEB Released anti-aliasing plug-in "PSOFT anti-aliasing for AE" (for Adobe After Effects).
  APR Released anti-aliasing plug-in "PSOFT anti-aliasing for PS" (for Adobe Photoshop).
  OCT Released water color rendering 3DCG plug-in "PSOFT Liquid+ Network License" (for Autodesk 3ds Max).
2009 SEP Released "PSOFT ComicStyle", a plug-in to create manga-style graphical expressions (for Adobe After Effects).
  NOV Released "PSOFT CHRONOPlayer", a visual sound masking player (Windows).
2010 FEB Released anti-aliasing plug-in "PSOFT anti-aliasing for AE Network License" (for Adobe After Effects).
  MAY PSOFT MOBILE's first release: the DJ software "SHAKE IT-DJ" (Apple iPhone).
  JUL PSOFT MOBILE's second release: the Simple Ink Brush Tool "Zen Brush" (Apple iPad and iPhone).
  AUG Released color pencil rendering 3DCG plug-in "PSOFT Pencil+ 3" (for Autodesk 3ds Max).
Present.

Written in AUG, 2010

Awards

2008 Audio Signal Processing Technology PHISYX
Honorable Mention Award at the 20th "Small to Medium Enterprise Outstanding New Technology / Product Awards" hosted by Resona Foundation group (Japan).
2005 Recipient of the 8th "77 New Business grant-in-aid".
2005 PSOFT time stretch and pitch shift software "PSOFT CHRONOStream"
Miyagi Manufacturing First Excellence Prize (Miyagi prefecture, Japan).
2004 PSOFT software synthesizer "PSOFT VOID Modular System"
Software Product of the Year 2004 (joint sponsorship by IPA and SOFTIC, Tokyo, Japan).
2004 PSOFT software synthesizer "PSOFT VOID Modular System"
Miyagi Manufacturing First Excellence Prize (Miyagi prefecture, Japan).
2002 "SD Gundam G Generation NEO" for PlayStation2
6th "Game Awards Future" (CESA, Tokyo, Japan).
1999 "SD Gundam G Generation" for PlayStation
Programming Award (SCE, Tokyo, Japan).
1998 3DCG movie "Onikenbai"
Grand Prize in the "Digital Contents Grand Prix Tohoku '98" (Miyagi, Japan).
 

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