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  • 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…

    Maya
  • SpongeBob and Patrick hypnotized

    Navigating AU 2023 Digital: What to Watch

    Autodesk University is just around the corner and the likes of Walt Disney Animation Studios, 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…

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  • The Media & Entertainment Guide to AU 2023

    We’re thrilled to expand AU 2023 to offer a wealth of content for media and entertainment professionals to connect, interact, and discover how top studios around the world use Autodesk's Design & Make Platform to create compelling stories in animation, VFX, games, and design visualization.

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  • Untold Studios Raises the Visual Bar with Collaborative Cloud Workflows

    Innovation runs in Untold Studios’ DNA. The world’s first fully cloud-based creative studio strives to provide an environment where happy accidents are welcome, even encouraged. This ethos has helped the company attract diverse talent and break new ground in animation and visual effects (VFX). Since launching in 2018, the studio set out to deliver world-class…

    Maya

  • Render Colorful, Life-Like Results With Updates to Arnold

    Autodesk is focused on helping you deliver highest-quality production values and improve pipeline flexibility and scalability. With Arnold 7.2 and 7.2.1, you can enjoy native support for Apple silicon in Maya as well as stregthened USD and MaterialX support. Plus, a new distance shader and enhancements to color management workflows in 3ds Max empower you…

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  • Arnold 7.1.4 Update Muffloise image courtesy of Nicolas Morel

    Solutions in the Arnold 7.1.4 Update

    Optimize Your Rendering with Arnold In this update, Arnold brings new and improved volume rendering controls, support for more features in Hydra and USD, and a slew of enhancements to help you render high-quality 3D images faster. Native Support for Apple CPUs Arnold now natively supports running on Apple M-series CPUs, such as the M1…

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  • Arnold 7.1.3 Update Clouds image courtesy of Lee Griggs

    Solutions in the Arnold 7.1.3 Update

    In this update, Arnold continues to provide you with the latest rendering support and capabilities. This update brings new and improved rendering controls and support for more features in Hydra and USD. Arnold also provides an updated scene converted for 3ds Max as well as optimization and bug fixes, giving you a more seamless experience…

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  • Solutions in the Arnold 7.1 Update

    Arnold is focused on helping you handle complex projects, customize your pipeline, and render high-quality 3D images with speed. This update brings you NVIDIA’s OptiX 7 Denoiser for consistent, high-grade denoising, as well as powerful improvements to USD, interactive rendering, and the Triplanar shader. OptiX 7 Denoiser You can quickly render life-like results on GPU…

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  • Solutions in the Arnold 7 Update

    The latest Arnold release amplifies rendering performance, interactivity, and reliability allowing you to deliver beautiful results faster. Performance is significantly upgraded, scalability on GPU is greatly improved, and fullframe imagers are now updated during rendering. This release also adds production-ready USD enhancements for specific procedurals and shapes in Hydra, deep AOVs, light linking, and more.…

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