Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites ® 2013 Redefining digital entertainment creation.

Experience the Creative Freedom of Having a Palette of Industry-Leading 3D Animation Toolsets at Your Fingertips Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 provide an affordable end-to-end creation and production solution, with tools used by artists working in visual effects, game development, and other 3D animation production. ® Autodesk helped us expand our artists’ range and flexibility, enabling our creative team to take on projects of varying visual complexity with ease and consistency. —Tony Pelle   Director of Technology   Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. The Autodesk® Entertainment Creation...

Maya image courtesy of Gravity Heat Map Skinning Spend less time manually refining skinning, with a new Heat Map Skinning method that can provide a more accurate initial binding of geometry to skeletons. With this method, skin is better able to be assigned to the intended bone as opposed to an adjacent but unrelated one. Trax Clip Matching It is now easier to visualize how motions within two or more Trax clips match in order to adjust how they blend together. With Clip Ghosts, you can view the start and end frames of clips as skeletal wireframes in the 3D view; clips can then be matched either...

3ds Max image courtesy of Platige Image Autodesk 3ds Max Continuing to push limits with its Rendering Revolution and Smart Data initiatives, Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 software delivers a powerful interactive rendering experience with ActiveShade support in the NVIDIA® iray® renderer; a new render pass system with integrated node-based compositing; and provides industry-leading interoperability with Adobe® After Effects® and Adobe® Photoshop® software. In addition, new motion graphics, animation, and simulation tools; flexible new customization options; and enhanced interoperability with Autodesk...

Maya and Softimage image courtesy of UVPHACTORY Autodesk Softimage Autodesk Softimage 2013 software delivers powerful new creative toolsets, a new highfidelity interactive environment, and extended customizability. Enjoy greater creative freedom across the board: the completely new CrowdFX simulation feature set, a new High-Quality Viewport, enhanced modeling, animation, physics, and selection tools. In addition, better interoperability with Autodesk Maya 2013 and Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 software, together with extensions to the SDK (software development kit) help facilitate integration into existing...

Maya, MotionBuilder and Mudbox image courtesy of Guerrilla B.V. Autodesk MotionBuilder Autodesk MotionBuilder 2013 software helps teams more reliably acquire, aggregate, and refine 3D character animation and other production data. With the option to record live motion capture data directly to disk, support for broadcast WAVE files, and the ability to output serial digital interface (SDI) video, MotionBuilder 2013 offers a new nonlinear editing platform for Virtual Production. In addition, with a flexible new heads-up display (HUD) and floating viewer, animators and directors can each benefit...

Maya, 3ds Max and Mudbox image courtesy of AdNAU Support for Edge Hardness, Creasing, and Smoothing Groups Enjoy the ability to more accurately interpret and display models created in Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Softimage software, and certain other content creation solutions that contain special data controlling the hardness, creasing, and smoothing of particular edges. Presets for Adjust Color Easily manipulate or correct the colors of a paint layer with new presets for Adjust Color that enable you to invert layers, apply inverse gamma correction to photographic sources, extract...

The Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite enables our veteran artists to design detailed scenes for some of the top feature films and video game cinematics in the industry. Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite is the backbone of our previsualization process, empowering us to help directors hone their visions from concept through the handoff to final visual effects with unprecedented efficiency. —Chris Edwards   CEO and Creative Director   The Third Floor, Inc. Learn More or Purchase Access specialists worldwide who can provide product expertise, a deep understanding of your industry, and value...