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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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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,…
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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…
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Marvel and Autodesk team up with The Mill for a new ad on Sphere
Ahead of Autodesk University 2023, “The Marvels” promotion takes over the new Las Vegas landmark, Sphere
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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…
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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…
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Autodesk Vision Series Delves into AI and Its Role in Production
AI in Media & Entertainment panel at SIGGRAPH 2023: From left to right Rachael Appleton, Autodesk; Phil Barrenger, Rising Sun Pictures; Nikola Todorovic, Wonder Dynamics; Jen Hollingsworth, Flawless AI; and Mike Seymour, fxguide. While there is significant hype, and some fear around the use of AI in Hollywood, one thing is clear: AI is paving…
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Autodesk Flame Adopts Next-Gen Graphics Technology for Increased Performance
With the rise of increasingly complex projects, VFX studios need to iterate faster, increase efficiency, and reduce friction in their pipeline to meet industry demands. By leveraging next-generation graphics technology, artists can run their applications with increased performance to meet their deadlines. In the latest update, Autodesk Flame Family moves to next generation graphics frameworks…
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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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New Flame Capabilities Help Centralize Cloud-Enabled Finishing and VFX Workflows
As demand for high-quality content continues to rise, post-production houses are adopting cloud infrastructure and workflows to connect globally dispersed talent and scale for new creative and logistical challenges. As projects grow, lead artists have more stakeholders, tools, and data to juggle than ever before — accentuating the need for a connected, collaborative, and creative…
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