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Upskill Using Free Autodesk Industry Courses

Just taking 15 minutes a day to go through Autodesk courses could make you far better prepared for your current role or advance yourskills for a new role. These curated courses cover Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Design and Manufacturing, Cross-Industry. Search over 500 available courses developed by the best in the industries. Read more →

Introducing Maya Creative

Maya Creative, is a more flexible and affordable version of Maya with sophisticated animation, modeling, and rendering tools to bring your vision to life.. •Create lifelike animations with intuitive animation tools •Build detailed 3D models with a powerful modeling toolset •Render high-quality 3D images in fewer clicks •Available now through Autodesk Flex Read more →

3ds Max and Maya Courses on AREA

New Courses have been added to Autodesk AREA. Each of these courses is focused on a community-requested real-world industry workflow. Read more →

3ds Max 2023.2 Released

The new 2023.2 Update for 3ds Max was released today, and it is packed with a lot of goodness. Read more →

Autodesk Vision Series August 3rd and 4th

Register for free to attend the Autodesk Vision Series Aug 3 & 4 to be inspired and hear from creative minds like Playground Games Lead Technical Artist, Dan Wulczynski, on how he and his team used 3ds Max to create fire environments for the ideo game Forza Horizon 5. Read more →

Autodesk 2022 Showreel Video

Each year Autodesk releases a series of industry short highlight videos called showreels and then one main compilation version. Here is the Autodesk 2022 Showreel of all the industries to watch, share, and enjoy seeing all the inspiring creations that our customers create using Autodesk technology and products. ”Don't Wait for Progress Make It” https://youtu.be/rAezZ0_tHvk Read more →

Autodesk Open Source

Autodesk Open Source provides the global community of innovators an opportunity to learn, contribute and grow. Visit our Open Source site and see how you can get involved in our latest projects: opensource.autodesk.com Read more →

100 Plus Autodesk Apps

A fun and funny video created by Tech3D walking through most of our Autodesk applications, but not all. Fitting video walkthrough commentary since in just over a week, on January 30th, 2022, it is Autodesk's 40th birthday/anniversary. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF7zEkelSRiHB1rOnspaBgQ “Autodesk have a massive collection of software products, the descriptions are hard to understand and often intentionally vague. This video will explain every one of their products and cloud services as of January 2022, but this will change rapidly as Autodesk are... Read more →

Congratulations to the 2021 Autodesk Excellence Awards Recipients!

Autodesk Excellence Awards celebrate the people, projects, and technologies behind exceptional contributions to the fields of architecture, engineering, and construction; product design and manufacturing; and media and entertainment.These customers will be spotlighted at Autodesk University 2021. Learn more about them throughout the Autodesk University 2021 conference or click here to view their inspiring projects. Read more →

3dsMax 2022.2 is Here!

Thanks to Changsoo Eun for the heads up! 3dsMax 2022.2 is released. https://cganimator.com/unofficial-3dsmax-whats-new/ https://makeanything.autodesk.com/3dsmax UNFOLD3D PEEL – NEW UNFOLD3D PACKING – NEW UNFOLD 3D OPTIMIZE – NEW UV EDITOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT UV EDITOR UPDATES FILE SAVE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT SMART EXTRUDE – MULTI CUT-THROUGH & PARTIAL MERGE PEN PRESSURE IMPROVEMENT IMPROVED HIDE BY CATEGORY USD B0.2 The unofficial what's new has been updated with the full details! https://cganimator.com/unofficial-3dsmax-whats-new/ Read more →

Fake or Photo - What is Your Score?

I got 92% with the current version up on the Area at the Fake or Photo. Go ahead, give it a try, beat my score. Read more →

Motion Graphics Discussions and Beer in Bend Oregon this Thursday

The Bend Oregon MoGraph meetup this Thursday. If you are located in Bend Oregon, love all things 3D graphics, then please sign up and stop on by. ”Bend MoGraph is for anyone who loves motion graphics, design, VFX, 3D modeling and animation, and video production and post! Mostly we get together at a local bar to have a few beers and talk smack about the industry and junk.” https://www.meetup.com/Bend-MoGraph-Meetup/ Read more →

The 3ds Max Support and Learning Center

The 3ds Max support and learning center is where you can find documentation, tutorials, videos, and troubleshooting resources. If you use 3ds Max, you should bookmark this resource in case you need to learn about something new or look into an issue you run into. https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/troubleshooting Read more →

Create VR for Maya

Create VR is an immersive conceptual design tool that empowers artists and designers to start their creative process directly in 3D. Using simple curve and surface tools designers can explore form and shape while being fully immersed in virtual reality alongside their design. Sketches and models can then be easily exported to Maya or other content creation applications for the final realization. Features Create and edit models using NURBs and SubD surface tools. Freeform sketching and NURBs curve tools to... Read more →

3ds Max 2021.3 Fall Update – Retopology & Mesh Cleaning

My highlights in the new update are the retopology and mesh cleaning tools, and there is much more in this nice update for subscription customers. 3ds Max 2021.3 Fall Update Video Overview https://youtu.be/HEXQOgeaBnE “Autodesk 3ds Max 2021.3 is focused on modernization, performance, and fit & finish. We have added new capabilities to the viewport, improved modeling efficiency for artists with enhancements to popular modifiers and new 3ds Max Retopology Tools that reduce complex and high-resolution assets, and enhance generative designs... Read more →

AMA Announcement: Autodesk 3dsmax Development Team - November 2nd, 1-3PM ET

Today there will be a Reddit “AMA” Ask Me Anything with the 3dsmax development team to celebrate the 30th anniversary of 3ds max! Join in to ask the dev team questions and reminisce at the past 30 years and where 3dsmax is heading. Join the AMA ”We’re the 3ds Max development team and this week, we’re proudly celebrating 3ds Max’s 30th year anniversary. Ask us about the history of Max, your favorite things about it, what we've got planned on... Read more →

Autodesk 2020 Showreel Videos

Every year Autodesk produces videos to showcase our products and most importantly what our customers produce using our products. The showreel videos are produced to feature our major industries and also one main Autodesk themed one featuring a video combined with a music background in a short format, usually around 2 minutes. These showreels are a great way to see what Autodesk customers produce around the world. Here are the Autodesk 2020 Showreels: Autodesk Official Show Reel 2020 Annual showcase... Read more →

Throwback Thursday – 3ds Max Flashback

I have been using 3DS Max since release 1.0 and 3D Studio for DOS before that where we had the Shaper, the Lofter, and that other mode I always forget when animation was really hard and rendering frames took hours and hours to only find out you messed up and need to start over especially since your viewports didn't have materials applied real-time like todays 3ds max. Today I had a great flashback of all the releases by Ian Failes... Read more →

Creative 3ds Max Tutorial and 3ds Max Roadmap

In social media recently, I noticed Paul Neale had posted a creative training infographic on 3ds Max Animation Tools (short list) and thought it would be great to share out. http://paulneale.com/osl-tips-and-tricks/ Want to know where 3ds Max is going or added in recent updates? Check out the 3d Max roadmap. makeanything.autodesk.com/3DSMAX Read more →

3DS Max 2021 Rendering and Viewport Features

You can render me with a smile at all the improvements to the rendering and viewports in Autodesk 3DS Max 2021. If you have used 3DS Max and make amazing pixel candy renders, then you most likely know of “Master Zap”, Zap Andersson. Zap is one of the well known mad scientists of rendering technologies within the 3DS Max product team. Zap just posted a nice 18 minute overview video of the changes made to 3DS Max... Read more →

What's New in 3DS Max 2021

Autodesk 3DS Max 2021 is now released, see what's new. Bake to Texture Installer Scripting with Python 3 Arnold as the Default Renderer Physically Based Rendering (PBR) Improved Viewport Quality & Settings OSL Shaders File I/O Chamfer improvements Weighted Normals Modifier SketchUp Import Substance Update ProSound Improved audio support FBX Improvements 3rd Party Developer Tools Read the details and roadmap. http://makeanything.autodesk.com/3dsmax http://cganimator.com/unofficial-3dsmax-whats-new/ 3ds Max 2021 Help: What's New in 3ds Max 2021 Check out the 3DS Max 2021 launch video.... Read more →

Autodesk 2020 Film and TV, VFX, Games, and Design Showreel

Its at times like these in the world we need to be distracted and inspired. Here is our latest Film and TV, VFX, Games, and Design Showreel by our customers for you to enjoy and tune the world out for four minutes. Autodesk 2020 Film and TV, VFX, Games, and Design Showreel https://youtu.be/P_gywq16GZc Read more →

Up Close and Personal with 3ds Max Event

Join the team behind 3ds Max for a first look at and discussion around recent Max updates. During this 2 hour and 30 minute live stream event, we'll be joined by guests from Scanline VFX, Ubisoft, and Hoare Lea. 1:00-1:20: Introduction & Updated Roadmap; Nancy LaRue, Industry Marketing Manager with Product Manager 1:20-1:40: Arnold & Physical Material as default, Viewport updates; Zap Andersson, Principal SW Engineer 1:40-1:55: Bake to Texture; Louis Marcoux, Principal UX Designer 1:55-2:10: Modeling Updates; Logan Foster,... Read more →

Autodesk Maya Bonus Tools

The Maya Team has posted a compilation of free and updated Maya Bonus Tools 2019-2020 to the Autodesk App store for use with Maya 2017, 2018, 2019, and Maya 2020. Bonus Tools 2019/2020 is a free collection of useful Autodesk® Maya® scripts and plug-ins. After installing Bonus Tools, an additional pull-down menu will be added to the end of the main Maya menu. This menu provides easy access to a variety of tools and utilities for daily use. Maya Bonus... Read more →

Maya 2020

Maya 2020 is here and it has some big changes. Read all about it on the Maya blog and check out the video. https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-maya-blog/introducing-maya-2020/ “Maya 2020 adds new tools that empower artists throughout the production pipeline. Whether you’re focused on animation, rigging, modeling, or effects, we’ve packed a lot into this release to help you work faster and without creative limits, including over 60 animation updates, new simulation features in Bifrost, and the latest version of Arnold with the option... Read more →