Take a look behind-the-scenes at Toronto-based, post production company, The Vanity! See how they use Autodesk Flame along with Autodesk Flare and Autodesk Maya to win commercial projects and create stunning work under a tight deadline.
Click Here to visit their website.
- Jamie
It's finally Friday, so lets celebrate with a FREE game available for your mobile game, available on the AppStore!!
Starforce Battlement was created by the Autodesk Gameware team as a proof-of-concept game to demonstrate the features of the new Scaleform Mobile SDK. The team used Autodesk 3ds Max to create the models along with the Adobe toolset for artwork and animation. The Scaleform Mobile SDK then allowed for easy deployment on both iOS and Android. The result is a high quality, cross-platform game freely available on the AppStore demonstrating the possibilities of our latest release.
Download the game from the AppStore, by clicking here.
You can learn more about the power of Scaleform for complete application development by navigating here
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- Jamie.
Hi Everyone,
The below blog post is from Ken Pimentel, which is a name I’m sure many of you know here at Autodesk. He needs your help if you use 3ds Max for “Design” related tasks….
“This short survey is only for those who have used, are using or want to use 3ds Max or 3ds Max Design for purposes *other* than entertainment production (film, TV, games). If you are in entertainment production, then you will have to wait until we develop a survey specific for those needs.
In many cases, the users we’re seeking will work with CAD data or work in places where CAD products are used. We're trying to understand what problems you face in this process and what could be done to improve things. You don’t have to be a visualization expert to answer this survey, we’re interested in knowing if there are problems we could solve that would encourage you to use 3ds Max or 3ds Max Design more in your projects.
Some of users work on a range of industries, including entertainment. If you spend more than 25% of your time working with non-entertainment productions, then please fill out the survey.
We're going to ask you about 10 questions about your work/role and then no more than 3-4 questions about what things we could improve. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes of your time. Thanks in advance for contributing.”
- Ken Pimentel, Director, Industry Strategies and Marketing, Autodesk
Take a look behind-the-scenes at renowned UK creative production studio Taylor James! In this new 4.5minute video, we get a sneak peek into how the firm uses Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya, with AMD FirePro Graphics cards, for all of their 3D work:
You can view more of their amazing work at: www.taylorjames.com
You can also have a look at their 2011/2012 showreel below:
Jamie
For those of you using Smoke 2013, we have just released Service Pack 2. This covers 63 bug fixes around ConnectFX, Media Panel, Timeline and much more.
A full list of solved issues is included in the Autodesk Smoke 2013 Service Pack 2 Release Notes.
As always the Service Pack replaces the previous Smoke 2013 installer and can be found here: Autodesk Smoke 2013 Service Pack 2
Jamie
“Scientific visualization is a multi-billion dollar industry, which aims to investigate and communicate the realms that exist beyond our normal senses. In the molecular world of alien-looking shapes and bizarre physics, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) attacks critical immune system defense cells in human blood, causing the disease AIDS. This pandemic has taken over 33,000,000 lives, with millions more added each year.
Autodesk unites with two leading research institutes to challenge you to explore this mysterious world. They will provide competitors with a c
ellPack model of HIV in blood serum and a powerful open source app, called autoPACK. It is up to you to convey humanity's complex relationships with this virus, be they emotional, political, or intellectual. We need your help to excite general audiences with visuals that will help us spread interest in the search for a cure.
This is your opportunity to be a pioneer on the frontier of science!”
Instructions can be found here.
For more information, please visit: http://www.autopack.org/challenge
The Challenge
You can see that this HIV-in-BloodSerum model is complex, both visually and computationally.
The competition closes on March 18th 2013.
Hi Everyone
Some great news - the FREE Autodesk Media & Entertainment webinars are back again!
We start with two great webinars focused on Flame Premium and Smoke. The first is with “special guest, Vico Sharabani, ECD/CEO (aka Right-Brain) at The Artery VFX, as he explores how the new workflow in Flame Premium 20th Anniversary Edition workflow has affected his daily life as a visual effects artist and supervisor.
Renowned for his expertise in 3D, and with a portfolio that includes commercials for Nike, Mercedes, and AT&T, music videos for Coldplay, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, and Kanye West, Vico will share how he is taking advantage of the new open workflow between the Desktop, Timeline, and Batch in Flame Premium to create stunning visual effects.”
Register by clicking here.
Date: Tuesday 26th February
The second webinar is with Autodesk’s very own resident expert Stuart Holloway, as he looks “…at the challenges that a typical production can throw up once the cameras have stopped rolling and it’s down to you and your creativity to get the job done.”
Register by clicking here.
Stuart will show how the powerful creative toolset of Autodesk Smoke was used - right the way through from editing to finishing - on a 7 minute short film from acclaimed filmmaker Jeremy Hunt. (The film can be found below.)
Date: Tuesday 12th March
More webinars are coming soon: You can register to be notified of upcoming Webinar events for Autodesk 3ds Max 2013, Autodesk Maya 2013, Smoke. Learn More.
Jamie.
