• Still from Award-winning short film, Silhouette

    Student Filmmakers of ArtFX School of Digital Arts Win Big at VES for ‘Silhouette’

    The Visual Effects Society hosted the 22nd annual Visual Effects Society Awards on Feb. 21 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., celebrating the most outstanding visual effects in film, television, and other media in the last year. For the 16th consecutive year, Autodesk sponsored the “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project” category,…


  • Autodesk Arnold Research Papers

    Are you a 3D artist or a rendering enthusiast looking to stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in the industry? Look no further! Here is your all-in-one place to access our research papers and explore the groundbreaking work that has been done in the field. Motion Blur Corner Cases Christopher Kulla and Thiago Ize This…


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    Autodesk M&E Rewind: Top 10 Highlights of 2023

    The entertainment scene never slows down, and Autodesk Media & Entertainment is committed to fuelling your creative fire, streamlining operations, and driving business growth amidst the whirlwind. Reflecting on the past year, you’ve created awesome films, shows, and games with new tools and workflows. Let’s rewind and explore the tech highlights that emerged in 2023. …


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    Maya Creative Helps Artifice Studio Immerse Players in the 13th Century for Legends of the Round Table

    Indie game studio, Artifice, is challenging conventions with its unique concepts. The Montreal-based company struck a chord with its debut title, Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves, set in a fantasy French Canadian 19th universe. The game, which was released in 2012 and went on to sell over 600,000 copies, was created by “five guys working in…


  • Render in a Flash with Updates to Arnold

    Arnold 7.2.5 is here! The latest release brings a much-improved GPU renderer, faster volume rendering, high quality curves, light AOVs in the toon shader, a text overlay imager, USDZ, and many more user experience improvements. Dive into the latest enhancements and updates below!   Access a redesigned GPU Renderer  GPU rendering Arnold gets a complete overhaul,…


  • Harnessing the power of analysis, augmentation, and automation: Autodesk AI helps artists focus on their art  

    Media consumption habits have changed forever. The era of streaming, the pandemic and a new generation that considers on-demand, multi-screen, and immersive content as standard have brought about demands to the media and entertainment industry that are increasingly difficult to fulfill with traditional business and production methods. More content, more visual effects, with no more…


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    Navigating AU 2023 Digital: What to Watch

    Autodesk University is just around the corner and the likes of Artists Equity, The Mill, Mikros Animation, ShadowMachine, and more are getting ready to inspire you. What’s even better? You can snag a free digital pass to be part of all the fun from home. In the midst of a wild array of 600+ learning…


  • Autodesk’s Lead Color Scientist, Doug Walker Honored by SMPTE

    The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) honored Autodesk’s Doug Walker with the prestigious Natalie M. and Herbert T. Kalmus Medal; Walker was also a co-recipient of the Workflow Systems Medal for OpenColorIO at the 2023 SMPTE Awards Gala. Doug is the Technology Lead for Color Science in the Autodesk Entertainment & Media…


  • Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania

    Bifrost for Autodesk Maya Helps Pixomondo Streamline VFX Creation

    Global virtual production and visual effects company Pixomondo uses Bifrost for Autodesk Maya to streamline VFX delivery on many of its tentpole projects including House of the Dragon, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and most recently, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.  Bifrost is a visual programming environment in Maya used to create procedural simulations and…


  • OpenUSD: A path to industry-wide VFX interoperability

    At SIGGRAPH 2023, an Autodesk Vision Series panel explored Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) and how it fosters open data exchange across the visual effects industry. The panelists, all members of the recently formed Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), discussed how the technology opens the door for seamless connectivity across departments, studios, vendors and devices, helping drive…