New Disney Print Creations Software Collection

Sierra Home's Disney Print Creations By Print Artist Features Photo Editing Capabilities and Seamless Integration of Add-On Content Packs

Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Home(TM) announced today the availability of new Disney Print Creations titles in its Print Artist(R) series of home publishing products. The two new software releases include Disney Print Creations, Collection I and Disney Print Creations Featuring Winnie The Pooh, both featuring Disney's classic animated characters. Also available for the first time are downloadable content packs based on the fall 2001 theatrical release Monsters, Inc. from Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR), as well as other Disney film favorites.

Sierra Home's popular Print Artist products enable users to create thousands of professional quality print projects, including greeting cards, party sets, banners, stationary sets, calendars, crafts and much more. Additionally, the new Disney Print Creations titles from Print Artist boast innovative new features, including the ability to seamlessly incorporate add-on content packs into the software program. Consumers simply go to www.printartist.com/disney to purchase and download new content packs featuring their favorite Disney characters. Additionally, the fall 2001 Disney Print Creations line includes an integrated "Photo Lab" feature, enabling users to import, edit and add special effects to photographs instantly.

The new Disney Print Creations titles include:

Disney Print Creations, Collection I. This comprehensive collection features beloved classic Disney characters and properties, including Mickey and Friends, Peter Pan, Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi, and Alice In Wonderland. With 2,600 professionally designed layouts and 7,200 Disney graphics, this extraordinary collection offers thousands of different creative project variations. Disney Print Creations, Collection I comes with everything needed to make projects, including card stock, specialty paper envelopes and a project idea guide. The estimated street price is $49.95.

Disney Print Creations Featuring Winnie The Pooh. Users can create myriad projects using images of their favorite characters from the Hundred Acre Wood, including Winnie The Pooh, Eeyor, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, Christopher Robin, Rabbit, Gopher, Kanga and Roo. This complete home publishing product includes more than 2,000 Winnie The Pooh graphics and 400 different layouts. The estimated street price is $29.95.

Downloadable Content Packs. Disney Print Creations users will have the opportunity to purchase and download Disney content packs, including content based on Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc. Sierra Home will also release party print packs featuring the characters of Snow White and Winnie the Pooh, as well as a pack based on Disney princesses. Content packs are available exclusively at www.printartist.com/disney for $9.95 to $12.95 each.

Availability and System Requirements
Disney Print Creations products are available at most software retailers, online at www.sierrahome.com , or by calling (800) 757-7707. System requirements include: Windows(R) 98/95/NTw/SP4, 2000, ME and XP, Pentium(R) 200 or better with 32 MB RAM and 300 MB free hard disk space.

About Disney Interactive
Disney Interactive, part of the Disney Consumer Products division of The Walt Disney Company, develops, markets and globally distributes a wide variety of interactive entertainment, educational and sports CD-ROMs and video games. For more information on Disney Interactive's products, visit www.disneyinteractive.com .

About Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR) combines creative and technical artistry to create original characters and stories in the medium of computer animation. Under its partnership with Disney, Pixar has created and produced the first computer-animated feature film, the Academy Award(R)-winning "Toy Story," released in 1995; "A Bug's Life," the highest grossing animated film released in 1998; and Golden Globe-winner "Toy Story 2," the highest domestic grossing animated film released in 1999. The Northern California studio's current films include "Monsters, Inc.," which was released on November 2, 2001, and "Finding Nemo," scheduled for a summer 2003 release.

About Sierra
Sierra On-Line, Inc. http://www.sierra.com, a studio of Vivendi Universal Publishing and part of its Games division, is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software. Sierra is renowned for releasing critically acclaimed and award winning titles that represent a wide variety of computer entertainment on both next generation console and PC platforms.

About Vivendi Universal Publishing
Vivendi Universal Publishing (VU Publishing), the publishing division of the world's second largest communications group (Vivendi Universal), is an international leader in multi-platform publishing and content distribution. As one of the top three players in the global publishing market and the only publisher with an international reach, the Company's key content areas include literature, reference, education, games and consumer press. VU Publishing publishes content in four major languages, including English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and has strong local publishing brands, including Anaya, Atica, Houghton Mifflin, Knowledge Adventure, Larousse, Nathan and Scipione. In the games category, VU Publishing is a leading publisher of online, PC and console-based games. Its studios include Blizzard Entertainment, The Flipside Network, Sierra and Universal Interactive.

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