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OpenAI’s Sora Text to Video AI Research

OpenAI’s new text-to-video technology named Sora is pretty amazing but the repercussions to many industries are profound… Many CGI/VFX tool-building companies and the creatives that use them may feel anxiety-inducing when a written text prompt to video AI tool can create a video in minutes that could take weeks to traditionally create using desktop tools. Read more →

Dive into XR: Shaping the Future of Building and Design

What is Extended Reality (XR)? The advent of XR has been very helpful for many industries, including Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) and also Manufacturing. XR technology is revolutionizing the way we design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure, facilitating better communication, enhancing collaboration, inspection, and increasing overall productivity and efficiency. Read more →

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 →

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... Read more →

Steelcase Chair Assembly Instructions Powered by Autodesk Forge

Pretty nice implementation example of a browser using the Autodesk Forge platform to present interactive chair assembly instructions. “Powered by Forge, these interactive furniture assembly instructions from Steelcase allow customers to rotate views and step through the assembly process at... 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... 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... Read more →

Content Creators Can Collaborate in Real-Time Using the NVIDIA Omniverse Platform

Autodesk’s Christopher Young, VP Autodesk Entertainment Creation Products announced: ”To allow customers to create without limits, Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Inventor & Revit are integrated in the platform along with USD open source format.” NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Open Beta, Letting... 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... 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... 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®... Read more →

What is Autodesk Researching with AI and VFX

Problems grow in complexity with time, what is Autodesk doing to solve this challenge for VFX? “From specialized image segmentation to AI-powered UV creation, and natural language art directing, see where Autodesk stands and is going with AI-fueled entertainment creation.... Read more →

3ds Max 2020.2 Update Available and 3ds Max Roadmap

The Autodesk 3ds Max 2020.2 was just released and includes: Chamfer modifier improvement New SketchUp importer Synchronize With Display Mode Read More about the Update and learn about future feature plans in the road map: 3ds Max 2020.2 and Public... Read more →

Behind the FX - Bifrost Aero Solver Masterclass

If you love to learn more about why FX work and are so awesome and not scared of math and complex algorithms? If you didn't run away and are curious then I have an awesome article for you on the... Read more →

Autodesk News from SIGGRAPH 2019 - Bifrost for Maya and Autodesk Maya and Max Indie

There is a lot going on at SIGGRAPH this week, but two items were big for Autodesk with the release of Bifrost for Maya and then the Indie versions of 3ds Max and Maya. Read more →

3ds Max Public Roadmap

Are you a 3ds Max user, and want to know what is in the future and to be involved? While I am on a roadtrip this week, you can have a good read of what our 3ds Max team is... Read more →

The 3ds Max Team Released 3ds Max 2020.1 Update Today

In the just released 3ds Max 2020.1 update for subscription customers, in addition to fixes to reported issues we added the ability to tear off viewports to leverage multi-monitor setups, and a new keyboard shortcut manager. On top of this,... Read more →

Realtime Revit BIM Models in Unity in Just One Click

Today, the awesome fi9ne folks at Unity announced the collaboration with Autodesk for a Revit importation product named Unity Reflect. Unity provides a platform for all sorts of immersive 3D possibilities in AR/VR and more that have bent my mind... Read more →

RawR See a T-Rex in Stunning 3D Detail - without being eaten

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking with a panel of Smithsonian employees of the Digitization Program Office and they let me know of an amazing reality capture project that went live just yesterday. It is stunning in detail and... Read more →

Holy Alternate 3ds Max Particles Batman

I seen a 3rd party plugin by Tyson Ibele for 3ds Max 2017-2020 named tyFlow that amazed me, and I know that the Max community had been anxiously awaiting a beta to try it. The open public beta announcement was... Read more →

Introducing Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU Public Beta

So many updates to the Arnold renderer that all add up to realistic 3D renderings and eyeball melting graphics. Arnold now brings artists the power and flexibility of CPU and GPU rendering in a single renderer! Introducing Arnold 5.3 with... Read more →