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Product catalog summary
Overview
Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 provides a comprehensive set of tools for digital entertainment creation, including 3D animation, visual effects, and game development. Available in Standard, Premium, and Ultimate editions, the suite includes software like Maya, 3ds Max, Mudbox, MotionBuilder, and SketchBook Designer.
Key Features and Enhancements
  • Enhanced Interoperability: Improved data exchange workflows between tools, live character streaming between MotionBuilder and Maya, consistent hotkeys, and enhanced F-Curve Editor functionality.
  • Maya 2013: New features include nHair for realistic hair dynamics, Viewport 2.0 enhancements, and Bullet Physics for simulating soft and rigid bodies.
  • 3ds Max 2013: Improved interoperability with Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, a new render pass system, and ActiveShade interactive iray rendering.
  • Softimage 2013: Introduces CrowdFX for crowd simulations, a high-quality viewport, and enhanced modeling and animation tools.
  • MotionBuilder 2013: New options for live data recording, a flexible heads-up display, and improved nonlinear editing capabilities.
Benefits
The suite enhances productivity and creative opportunities, offering significant cost savings compared to purchasing individual products. It supports complex simulations, facilitates data-centric workflows, and provides tools for efficient animation and rendering processes.
Conclusion
Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 is designed to meet the needs of artists and studios by providing a versatile and integrated set of tools that enhance creativity and streamline production workflows.
MotionBuilder 2013 Specific Features
  • Aspect Ratio Masks: Supports various presets and allows property references or relationship constraints.
  • Floating Viewer: Enables separate camera views on different monitors.
  • Broadcast WAVE File Support: Enhances synchronization of video and audio files with embedded timecode data.
  • Story Clip Grouping: Allows simultaneous editing of multiple clips using a Summary Clip option.
  • Video Out: Outputs SDI broadcast video signals for real-time video capture.
  • Z-Depth Selection: Improves object selection through semitransparent objects and z-buffer depth cycling.
  • Audio Retiming: Facilitates matching audio timing with animation timing.
  • Performance Enhancements: Increases productivity with faster scene load times and asset merging.
SketchBook Designer 2013 Features
  • Hybrid Toolset: Combines paint and vector tools for character, prop, and environment design.
  • User Interface: Optimized for pen and mouse interaction, offering creative freedom.
Mudbox 2013 Features
  • Gigatexel Engine: Supports massive detail creation for high-resolution formats.
  • Multipurpose Curves: Enhances painting and sculpting toolsets with screen and 3D space curves.
  • Customizable Workspace: Allows saving and sharing of custom workspaces.
  • Edge Hardness Support: Accurately interprets models with edge hardness and creasing data.
  • Map Detail Combination: Combines bump and normal map details into a single map.
  • Tiling Detail: Facilitates sculpting and painting of tiled details for large surfaces.
  • Photoshop Interoperability: Improved workflow with support for 16-bit PSD files.
  • Model Duplication and Flipping: Simplifies creation of mirrored object versions.
  • Color Adjustment Presets: Offers presets for color manipulation and correction.
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Entertainment Creation Suites Redefining digital entertainment

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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. The Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suite Standard edition offers a choice of either Autodesk® Maya® or Autodesk® 3ds Max® animation software, together with Autodesk® Mudbox® 3D sculpting and painting software, Autodesk® MotionBuilder® real-time virtual production and...

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Maya image courtesy of Gravity Autodesk Maya Autodesk Maya 2013 software delivers practical toolsets to help your facility create and maintain the modern, open pipelines needed to address today's challenging productions. Powerful new toolsets for dynamic simulation, animation, and rendering help you realize new levels of creativity while offering the enhanced productivity that will help keep you on schedule and within budget. In addition, the Open Data initiative introduced in Maya 2013 helps facilitate data-centric, nonlinear, parallel workflows that make it easier to handle the massive complexity...

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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® Tenderer; 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 2013 and Autodesk MotionBuilder 2013 software can help...

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Maya and Softimage image courtesy of UVPHACTORY Autodesk Softimage Autodesk Softimage 2013 software delivers powerful new creative toolsets, a new high- fidelity 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...

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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...

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Autodesk Mudbox Autodesk Mudbox 2013 software helps you create complex, production-ready scenes with greater ease, thanks to the new Gigatexel engine for creating massive amounts of detail, and the ability to work efficiently with significantly more objects. Meanwhile, the creative painting and sculpting toolset is extended with new multipurpose curves; the ability to combine bump and normal map information; and easier methods for creating and extracting tiled detail. In addition, with enhanced interoperability with Adobe Photoshop and support for edge sharpness data, Mudbox 2013 offers better...

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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 Learn More or Purchase Access specialists worldwide who can provide product expertise, a deep understanding of your industry, and value that extends beyond your software. To license Autodesk®...

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