Visual Effects


  • Flame 2023.2 Dog Image courtesy of Gizmo Rivera

    Achieve true-to-life results with Flame

    Autodesk Flame Family products now offer the latest support for high-end camera formats, enabling you to natively import & edit with performance and colour accuracy for true-to-life results. Furthermore, we pushed Flame’s animation capabilities forward with a new Edit Box and implemented more than 30 Flame feedback requests. Solutions in the Flame 2023.2 Update ARRIRAW…


  • Defender of Slow loris image courtesy of Olga Dannik

    Power your creative vision with Maya

    Maya brings new ways for you to channel your creativity with enhanced tools and integrations. New Boolean operations increase workflow productivity, and Vertex Color enhancements give you better visual feedback for objects. Maya also continues to build on its USD integration for a more seamless experience across teams. Solutions in the Maya 2023.2 Update Animation…


  • 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…


  • Maya 2023.1 Rascal Image courtesy of Kevin Beckers. Original design by Michaela Martin.

    Channel your creativity with enhanced tools in Maya

    Maya brings new ways for you to channel your creativity with enhanced tools and integrations. New Boolean operations increase workflow productivity, and Vertex Color enhancements give you better visual feedback for objects. Maya also continues to build on its USD integration for a more seamless experience across teams. Solutions in the Maya 2023.1 Update New…


  • New Input Validation Capabilities in Flow Production Tracking (Formerly ShotGrid)

    Flow Production Tracking’s (formerly ShotGrid) latest update introduces new Input Validation capabilities for system-created entity name fields such as Shot Code, Sequence Name, Asset Name, and more. Admins can now produce more accurate production data with these new functionalities while continuing to have a single source of truth when setting up best practices for studios…


  • 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…


  • A 3D rendered boy, holding a sword and shield.

    Tackle Your Biggest Creative Challenges with Powerful Tools in Maya

    Maya equips you with modern and powerful tools to help you tackle your biggest creative challenges. This release brings an enhanced animation experience with a new toolset for drawing directly in the viewport, updates to Boolean operations to speed up modeling workflows, and improvements to deformers and component tags for better control of rigs. Maya…


  • Introducing Cross-Project Asset Linking in Flow Production Tracking (Formerly ShotGrid)

    In Flow Production Tracking’s (formerly ShotGrid) latest update, we’re introducing the capability to do Cross-Project Asset Linking, allowing studios to easily re-use Assets across all projects. This has an impact on Managers who promote efficiency while enabling Artists and technical teams to embrace workflows for loading the same asset across many different projects—reducing the back-and-forth needed…


  • 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.…


  • Unreal Live Link for Maya 2.0 Image courtesy of artcore.studios

    Solutions in the Unreal Live Link for Maya 2.0 Update

    This update simplifies the process of streaming animation data from Maya to Unreal in real time. New functionalities like Asset Linking accelerate streaming, while UI enhancements eliminate the need to complete tedious tasks so you can focus on the art. New UI Layout The Unreal Live Link for Maya UI has been updated to include…