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In Film


WHAT IF YOU COULD PUT CREATIVE VISION BEFORE TECHNICAL KNOW-HOW?

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Today, film facilities are being asked to deliver more content than ever before, faster than ever before. And with growing audience expectations, it’s crucial that the quality of this content be second to none. Fortunately, Autodesk offers a collection of film software that helps deliver the creative tools you need:

• Previsualization and virtual cinematography: Using 3D production tools such as Autodesk® MotionBuilder® and Autodesk® Maya® software, you are able to explore creative options: both before and while you’re on set.

• Computer generated (CG) production: choose from award-winning software such as Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® Softimage®, and Autodesk® 3ds Max®. And Maya offers toolsets geared toward stereoscopic 3D film production.

• Compositing: Use the high-dynamic-range (HDR) Autodesk® Toxik™ procedural compositing software along with Maya and enjoy an efficient compositing workflow. Visual effects artists can use the Autodesk® Flame® and Autodesk® Inferno® software to help gain new levels of interactivity and flexibility when tackling complex shots.

• Grading and Finishing: When you’re looking to establish your narrative tone, use Autodesk® Lustre® software, a grading application that helps you to precisely shape color and lighting. Finally, tackle your finishing processes with Autodesk® Smoke® software, the online editing and creative finishing solution.

madagascar2Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Case in point: through these solutions, and the Autodesk® FBX® data interchange technology, you can create a virtual production space based on intelligent assets. In this space you’ll gain new levels of support for creative collaboration, which can result in greater production efficiency.

And in addition to these technologies, Autodesk gives you access to upgrades, lower licensing costs, flexible licensing, online training, and expert support through the Autodesk® Subscription program.

 

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In Television

WHAT IF YOU COULD CREATE BETTER TELEVISION THROUGH DESIGN?

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In a world of endless choice in television content, program makers and advertisers must create increasingly compelling content to catch and hold the viewer’s attention. As agencies and facilities strive to do more with less, efficiency and quality are paramount.

Autodesk offers a portfolio of creative software tools that helps you deliver the television content you need:

• Visual effects software for commercial post-production, broadcast design and visual effects creation: Autodesk® Flame®, Autodesk® Inferno®, Autodesk® Flint® and Autodesk® Flare™ software offer the tools to help create stunning imagery on very tight deadlines.

• Powerful editing and finishing software with advanced colorcorrection, graphics, visual effects and text capabilities in a single integrated solution: Autodesk® Smoke® software.

• 3D computer generated imagery (CGI) software for animated series and visual effects: Autodesk®
Maya®, Autodesk® Softimage®, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 3D modeling, animation, effects and rendering
software, Autodesk® Mudbox® modeling software and Autodesk® MotionBuilder® software.

• Color grading software to help precisely shape color and lighting: Autodesk® Lustre® software.
Autodesk provides a configurable and flexible production pipeline for helping to create visually rich television content more efficiently. Integrating open standards such as AAF, XML and Autodesk® FBX® 3D data exchange solution into the workflow, Autodesk solutions scale to help meet the performance requirements your production deadlines demand.

Autodesk solutions for digital entertainment creation enable a virtual production space for enhanced creative collaboration and production efficiency and help your digital assets to be reused more intelligently throughout the  production pipeline. Autodesk gives you access to upgrades, lower licensing costs, flexible licensing, online training, and expert support through the Autodesk® Subscription program.

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Autodesk Design Visualization
Design Visualization: Explore. Validate. Communicate.

Autodesk provides state-of-the-art 3D design visualization tools that help you get a deeper understanding of how a project works before it’s built. You can detect certain errors in the beginning stages of the design process—the earlier you find them, the easier they are to fix. Design visualization helps you create better designs, while gaining a competitive edge.

Architects, designers, and engineers can use visualization to make informed decisions throughout the building information modeling (BIM), infrastructure modeling, and Digital Prototyping processes.

Architecture
Visualization plays a role at every stage of the architectural design process, including exploring complex organic forms, studying how light interacts with a design, validating a design for planning and public outreach, and marketing a building before breaking ground.

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Civil Engineering
Visualizing a project before it's built helps your firm, your clients, government agencies, and community stakeholders better assess its impact on the surrounding area as well as understand how it will perform in context.

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Manufacturing

Designers turn to industry-leading visualization software, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, to create accurate and highly realistic visualizations of industrial machinery, automotive designs, and consumer product prototypes.


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Autodesk 3ds Max 2010autodesk 3dsmax
Create stunning 3D in less time.

Autodesk® 3ds Max® software is a full-featured 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects solution used to produce top-selling games and award-winning film and video content. 3ds Max is renowned for its ready-to-use, template-based character rigging system, robust modeling and texturing toolsets, and unlimited free network rendering with the integrated mental ray® software.

3ds Max 2010 introduces innovative new creative tools to help you shape your worlds the way you want;  powerful new referencing and scene management capabilities to manage complex scenes with ease; and an unprecedented level of support for software interoperability and pipeline integration to customize, extend and integrate 3ds Max into existing pipelines.

Features

The new and improved features and functionality in Autodesk® 3ds Max® 3D animation software facilitate collaboration, creation, and flexible workflows for game developers and creative professionals in the TV and film industries.

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Autodesk Maya autodesk maya
jimhensonAutodesk® Maya® 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects software offers artists an end-to-end creative workflow. Autodesk Maya 2010 software is the first release to unify the Autodesk® Maya® Complete 2009 and Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited 2009 feature sets, advanced matchmoving capabilities, and high dynamic range compositing into a single affordable package*. Also included for a complete CG workflow are 5 additional mental ray® for Maya batch** rendering nodes and the Autodesk® Backburner™† network render queue manager.

Features

Features in Autodesk® Maya® 2010 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, rendering, and compositing software provide artists with an end-to-end creative workflow for less.

Advanced Simulation Features

Access the innovative simulation tools that made Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited software famous—for less. There’s now only one version of Maya. That means Maya users gain access to the Maya Unlimited 2009 software’s innovations: the Maya Nucleus dynamic simulation framework, featuring the first two fully integrated Nucleus modules (Maya nCloth and Maya nParticles), as well as Maya Fluid Effects, Maya Hair, and Maya Fur.

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Autodesk MotionBuilder autodesk motionbuilder
Autodesk® MotionBuilder® real-time 3D character animation software is an ideal tool for high-volume game animation pipelines, director-driven virtual cinematography, and real-time character simulations. MotionBuilder 2010 delivers faster overall performance, expanded physics capabilities, productivity-enhancing animation workflows, and improved interoperability with Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, and Autodesk® Softimage® software.

Features

The latest release of Autodesk® MotionBuilder® motion capture and 3D character animation software delivers faster overall performance, expanded physics capabilities, productivity-enhancing animation workflows, and improved interoperability with Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, and Autodesk® Softimage® software.

Pose Control Enhancements & New Custom Keying Groups

With MotionBuilder 2010, you can now take poses from an object or group of objects in a scene, not just characters. The pose browser will contain all the poses you’ve created from your scene, and you can organize them all into folders according to what you need for your project.

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Create more efficient groups for setting keys, and work more efficiently with custom rigs including camera rigs, lighting rigs, and props. MotionBuilder now supports user-defined keying groups that include any arbitrary property from any object in the scene.
   
Autodesk Mudbox autodesk mudbox
Autodesk® Mudbox™ digital sculpting and texture painting software gives modelers and texture artists the freedom to create 3D digital artwork as if they are working with clay and paint. Designed by professional artists in the game, film, television, and design industries, Mudbox combines a highly intuitive user interface with a powerful creative toolset of stencils and brushes to help create ultra-realistic 3D characters, engaging environments, stylized props, and more. Available for the Macintosh® computer and Microsoft® Windows® operating systems.

Features

Autodesk® Mudbox™ software is an advanced, high-resolution, brush-based digital 3D sculpting and 3D painting solution. Mudbox features and functionality address the needs of professional modelers working in the game, film, television, and design industries.

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Paint only on the raised details of a model using the new dry brush. If you paint on a reptile model with scales, for example, you can paint the tops of the scales, without applying paint to the cracks. The Dry Brush can also be set to apply paint into recessed areas of a textured surface as well.
   
Autodesk In Games

Autodesk digital entertainment creation technology empowers game artists and developers with tools and middleware to help create more innovative game experiences.
Cutting-Edge Game Middleware

Autodesk serves the games industry with production-proven middleware solutions that are easy to implement, reliable, flexible, and backed by solid support. Autodesk middleware frees developers to focuson what makes their games fun and unique.

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Autodesk Kynapse
Powerful Game Art Creation Tools

Get creative with Autodesk game creation software. Relied on by game artists for creating 3D characters, props, environments, and animation for video games, Autodesk tools are dependable solutions that help bring your creative vision to life.

Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk Maya
Autodesk Softimage

Autodesk MotionBuilder
Autodesk Mudbox
Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited


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Interoperability

rockband2Autodesk® FBX® technology is a widely supported, platform-independent 3D data interchange solution. FBX helps to remove barriers to data compatibility and gives production teams the freedom to build more efficient workflows. FBX is integrated into many Autodesk Media & Entertainment software applications. A free software development kit (SDK) is available to help developers integrate FBX into custom applications.

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