As the world’s leading innovator of 3D graphics technology, Autodesk® develops award-winning software for the film, video, game development, interactive media, industrial design and visualization markets. Information on subscription is here.
Autodesk® Maya® 2011 unifies the Maya feature set, advanced matchmoving capabilities and high dynamic range compositing into a single affordable offering. The end-to-end CG workflow is based on the Unlimited toolset; with advanced simulation tools for cloth, hair, fur, fluids, and particles.
Because Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (application programming interface), or one of two embedded scripting languages. This, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D tools, means Maya enables you to realize your creative ideas.
Create stunning 3D in less time with Autodesk® 3ds Max® software.
This full-featured 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and effects solution is used to produce top-selling games and award-winning film and video content.
Those looking to quickly and efficiently generate convincing characters, seamless CG effects, or jaw-dropping games will want to explore this latest release of the software.
Create state-of-the-art animations in record time with the foremost productivity suite for 3D character animation. Autodesk® MotionBuilder™ software provides
A collection of real-time character-centric tools for tasks ranging from traditional keyframing to intensive motion capture editing
Native Autodesk® FBX® file format support to allow you to easily transfer assets to and from Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk® Maya® software and any other content-creation package that supports FBX
A complementary package that can enhance any new or existing production pipeline
Designed by professional artists in the film, games and design industries, Autodesk® Mudbox™ software gives 3D modelers and texture artists the freedom to create without worrying about the technical details.
A premier digital sculpting and texture painting solution, Mudboxcombines a highly intuitive user interface with a powerful creative toolset for creating ultra-detailed high-poly 3D models. Breaking the mold of traditional 3D modeling applications, Mudbox provides an organic brush-based 3D modeling experience that ignites the creative process.
Bunkspeed SHOT™ enables you to import 3D data, apply accurate materials and lighting, and create stunning images in minutes not hours. You can know with confidence that you can have a rendering done fast and at expected quality. Creation of product comparisons, marketing imagery, design review imagery and even live design review has never been so easy.
Bunkspeed Move™ has all you need to make things move. It's easy to animate your project with serious moves and dynamic cameras, then render fast, with film quality results. A broad import pipeline including automated tessallation of nurbs models allow you to bring any 3D ideas to reality. The beautifully designed interface can be mastered in under two hours. If you can imagine it, it can be visualized in minutes.
BUNKSPEED DRIVE™ Elegant, simple, fast interface that’s intuitive and easy to learn. Production ready for product, automotive and transportation visualization whether it’s for design review or for marketing communication imagery. Import, organize, paint, copy and vary your objects for visual decision making like never before. Presentation and decision based on stunning quality and realism has never been simpler. Render any shot or driving animation to photographic perfection on a single box or over hundreds of processors. Import large data bases and organize on the fly.
Craft Animations develops real-time 3D animation tools called Craft Director Studio, which streamline production times by nearly 90 percent - saving you both time and money.
Craft Director Studio extends creative possibilities by eliminating the time-consuming tasks of keyframing, scripting and rigging. You can create natural motion paths on-the-fly, and with the use of an optional input device, you can gain instant gratification through the highly realistic interactive real-time animation.
realistic and accurate vehicle incident and traffic animation, collision visualizations and scene flythrough
interactive, providing real-time control for precise movements
game developers to enhance in-game cinematics through a modular, configurable system that replicates a specific rig within Max or Maya.
walk throughs of architectural designs are easy with Director Studio's unique camera angles and views. Quickly and easily navigate exterior to interior layouts in real-time.
combined with user reseach and data, Director Studio can provide near-instant visualizations and simulations of any vehicle accident scene, simulating and recording keyframes in real-time.
Qube! is the ultimate render farm management system for the film and video game industries. Ideal for rendering and build processing alike, Qube! has demonstrated time and again that it can improve productivity and increase content quality while optimizing hardware resources.
Qube! is the right choice for studios that depend on software innovation to keep pace with the growing complexities and decreasing schedules of today's productions. Combining state-of-the-art techniques for batch queuing, distributed processing and render farm management, Qube! maximizes job throughput and accelerates the millions of computational tasks that occur during the graphics rendering and software build processes.
Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids with no limits on complexity, degree, or size. Rhino also supports polygon meshes and point clouds.
Rhino offers:
Uninhibitedfree-form 3-Dmodeling. Tools like those found only in products costing 20 to 50 times more. Accurately model any shape you can imagine.
Extreme precision. Design, prototype, engineer, analyze, document, and manufacture anything of any size no matter how small or how large.
Unrestricted editing. Revise freely without concern about how you got there or where you want to go next.
2-D drafting, annotation, and illustration. In addition, flatten 3-D surfaces into 2-D patterns and drive laser, plasma, and water jet cutters.
Large project organization. Work with both large models and large teams.
Compatibility. Exchange files with your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software.
File read and repair. Fix extremely challenging IGES and mesh files.
Direct connection. Support for wide variety of 3-D digitizing arms, 3-D scanners, and 3-D printers.
Customization. Easy-to-use tools let both you and software developers make Rhino fit your special needs.
Short learning curve. Focus on design and visualization without being distracted by the software.
Speed. Even on an ordinary laptop computer Rhino is fast. No special hardware is required.
Affordability. Ordinary hardware. Short learning curve. Priced like other Windows software. No maintenance fees. Worldwide support is included.
Unity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation.
The Unity game engine is happily married to the Unity development environment. This tight integration allows the Editor to do everything a published game can do. The simple, visual, and intuitive nature of the Editor makes building games fun again.
Unity has a highly optimized graphics pipeline for both DirectX and OpenGL. Animated meshes, particle systems, advanced lighting and shadows, all will run blazing fast.
Unity supports a wide range of publishing platforms, all available at the push of a single button.
V-Ray for Maya enables the rendering of even larger scenes with greater complexity and artists can rely on a faster rendering process. The comprehensive list of features provided by V-Ray for Maya includes true 3D Motion Blur, Sun & Sky procedural lighting system, Physical camera for matching live footage, Environment Fog, a set of Sub-Surface Scattering shaders and many others.
V-Ray rendering solutions is an indispensable tool that helps artists transform even the most ambitious creative visions into reality forless time and lower cost without sacrificing quality.
ZBrush gives you access to unparalleled power and control previously unknown in digital art creation software. Controls enable sculptors to create with a stylus and a tablet as intuitively as if they were using their hands on a block of clay.
ZBrush further extends the creation experience, harnessing technology and providing artists with a multitude of creation-enhancing tools.