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AutodeskEntertainment Creation Suites2013

Redening digital entertainmentcreation.

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Autodesk helped usexpand our artists rangeand exibility, enablingour creative team to takeon projects o varyingvisual complexity withease and consistency.

Tony PelleDirector o TechnologyRainmaker Entertainment Inc.

Experience the Creative Freedom o Having a Palette ondustryLeading 3D Animation Toolsets at Your Fingertips

Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 provide an

aordable endtoend creation and production solution,with tools used by artists working in visual eects, gamedevelopment, and other 3D animation production.

The Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite

Standard edition oers a choice o either Autodesk Maya or Autodesk 3ds Max animation sotware,

together with Autodesk Mudbox 3D sculpting

and painting sotware, Autodesk MotionBuilder

realtime virtual production and motion capture

editing sotware, andnewly included or the

Entertainment Creation Suite 2013 releases

Autodesk SketchBook Designer concept art

sotware. The Premium edition additionally oers

Autodesk Sotimage 3D animation and visual

eects sotware. Best o all, with the Ultimate

edition, you get all o the products in the Premium

edition plus the added advantage o having both

Maya and 3ds Max.

Integrated through enhanced singlestep

interoperability workows and more consistent user

interaces, the suites help increase productivity

and provide enhanced creative opportunitiesat

a signicant cost saving over purchasing all o the

products individually.

Enhanced Interoperability

Building on the existing data exchange workows,

the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites oer

a number o new eatures that urther enhance

interoperability and make it easier or you to work

with multiple toolsets.

Live Character Streaming BetweenMotionBuilder and Maya

You can now send an Autodesk HumanIK

character rom Maya to MotionBuilder and

establish a live streaming connection. This enables

you to stream animation applied to a character

in MotionBuilder onto the same character in

Maya, providing a reliable and ecient way to

previsualize a retargeting result in the nal Maya

scene beore actually transerring the nal data

between applications.

Consistent Hotkeys

I you are amiliar with using Maya, you will

appreciate the ability to use the same mouse andkey combinations in all 3D Entertainment Creation

Suite applications as you would in Maya to nav

viewports. In addition, a new 3ds Max interactmode in Sotimage enables artists amiliar with

3ds Max to get up to speed with Sotimage as

with the option to set amiliar camera navigati

mouse manipulation, hotkeys, selection mode,

keyraming mode.

Enhanced, Consistent F-Curve Editor

The FCurve Editor within Maya, 3ds Max,

Sotimage, and MotionBuilder now oers more

consistent unctionality, helping you transition

more easily between applications. In addition,

new manipulator in each application enables yo

easily retime animations without adding keyra

Autodesk HumanIK Interoperability with CA

Convert 3ds Max CAT (Character Animation

Toolkit) bipedal characters into characters that

are compatible with the Autodesk HumanIK

solver used in Maya and MotionBuilder in a

single step. Animation changes created in May

or MotionBuilder can be updated back onto th

original CAT character in 3ds Max, acilitating a

roundtrip workow.

Maya and Mudbox image courtesy o Lukasz Siud

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Autodesk Maya

Autodesk Maya 2013 sotware delivers practical

oolsets to help your acility create and maintain the

modern, open pipelines needed to address todays

hallenging productions. Powerul new toolsets or

ynamic simulation, animation, and rendering help

ou realize new levels o creativity while oering

he enhanced productivity that will help keep you

n schedule and within budget. In addition, the

Open Data initiative introduced in Maya 2013 helps

acilitate datacentric, nonlinear, parallel workowshat make it easier to handle the massive complexity

equirements you ace.

Key New Features in Maya

Maya nHair

Create more realistic hair and other curvebased

ynamics with the new Maya nHair module or

he Maya Nucleus unied simulation ramework.

Hair can interact bidirectionally with both Maya

Cloth and Maya nParticles, so you can create

omplex simulations with multiple dynamic entities

ll working together.

Maya image courtesy o G

Viewport . Enhancements

With the addition o highquality depth sorting,

together with support or image planes and

animation ghosting, Viewport . now oers a

higher delity interactive environment, so you can

evaluate your work more easily in order to make

better creative decisions.

New Node Editor

A new Node Editor helps you more easily create,

edit, and debug node networks. Draganddropconnection editing enables you to rewire nodes in

a more intuitive environment, while three levels o

detail, together with color coding or dierent data

types, make it easier to handle complex networks.

Bullet Physics*

Take advantage o the open source AMD Bullet

Physics engine to simulate both sot and rigid

bodies in a single highperormance system.

Featuring discrete and continuous 3D collision

detection, Bullet enables you to create highly

realistic simulations o cloth, rope, deormable

objects, and ragdoll skeletons.

Heat Map Skinning

Spend less time manually rening skinning, witnew Heat Map Skinning method that can provi

a more accurate initial binding o geometry to

skeletons. With this method, skin is better able

be assigned to the intended bone as opposed t

adjacent but unrelated one.

Trax Clip Matching

It is now easier to visualize how motions within

or more Trax clips match in order to adjust how

blend together. With Clip Ghosts, you can view

start and end rames o clips as skeletal wirera

in the 3D view; clips can then be matched eithe

manually or automatically.

Alembic Caching

As part o the new Open Data initiative, you ca

now read and write the Alembic open compute

graphics interchange ramework ormat, initial

developed in by teams rom Sony Picture

Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic, a div

o Lucaslm Entertainment Company Ltd. Alem

distills complex animated and simulated data

into applicationindependent baked geometry,

that massive datasets can be more easily passe

between disciplines.

ATOM Animation Transer

You can now transer animation between chara

via the new ATOM (Animation Transer ObjectModel) ofine le ormatanother element o

new Open Data initiative. ATOM natively supp

keyrames, constraints, animation layers, and S

Driven Keys.

File Reerencing Workow Enhancements

Targeted improvements to both the user inter

and the underlying architecture or ile

reerencing enable you to more easily segmen

your scenes to work in parallel and better mana

complexityanother contribution to the new O

Data initiative.

*Available on Windows (6bit only), Linux, and Mac OS X operating s

Maya, MotionBuilder and Mudbox image courtesy o Guerrilla B.V.

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Maya and Mudbox image courtesy o Dan

Autodesk 3ds Max

ontinuing to push limits with its Rendering

evolution and Smart Data initiatives, Autodesk

ds Max 2013 sotware delivers a powerul

nteractive rendering experience with ActiveShade

upport in the NVIDIA iray renderer; a new

ender pass system with integrated nodebased

ompositing; and provides industryleading

nteroperability with Adobe Ater Eects and

dobe Photoshop sotware. In addition, new

motion graphics, animation, and simulation tools;

exible new customization options; and enhanced

nteroperability with Autodesk Maya 2013 and

utodesk MotionBuilder 2013 sotware can help

ncrease overall productivity.

Key New Features in 3ds Max

Adobe Ater Efects Interoperability

you are a media design or graphics artist whose

reative toolsets include Adobe Ater Eects, you

an now enjoy a level o interoperability with

ds Max that sets a higher standard or 2D/3D

ata exchange. With the new Media Sync two

way transer unctionality, you can iterate more

ectively and reduce rework to complete projects

n less time.

nhanced Interoperability with Adobe

hotoshopnjoy greater exibility when nishing renderings

n Adobe Photoshop, with the new ability to output

enderings in a layered PSD ormat that retains layer

rder, opacity, and blend modes.

Render Pass System

hanks to an entirely new render pass system, you

an now create render elements or downstream

ompositing more eciently. You can quickly set up

nd execute multiple render passes rom a single

le, and modiy individual passes without the need

o rerender the whole scene.

Slate Compositing Editor

Perorm simple compositing operations directly

within 3ds Max with a schematic nodebased

interace that enables rendered layers and passes

to be more easily wired together and combined

with compositing nodes; the resulting composite

can then be sent to Ater Eects or Photoshop or

urther renement.

ActiveShade Interactive iray Rendering

Iterate more eectively when nalizing renderings,

with new ActiveShade support or the NVIDIA

iray renderer. ActiveShade provides an interactive

rendering session that constantly updates as

changes are made to cameras, lighting, materials,and geometry.

MassFX Enhancements

Enjoy a wide range o enhancements and

additions to the MassFX uniied system o

simulation solvers. Highlights are a new mCloth

module that eatures tearable abric and support

or dynamic ragdoll hierarchies.

Focus on Workow

With the understanding that small things can make

a big dierence, 3ds Max 2013 includes a number

o customerrequested workow improvements:

the ability to manipulate the camera whencutting polygons and during the creation process,

enhancements to the skin modier, and a modeless

array dialog box.

Tabbed Layouts

Easily create and switch between a number o

viewport layout congurations that can include

both 3D and extended viewports. Selecting a

dierent layout is as simple as clicking on its icon, or

pressing a hotkey. You can share customized View

Tabs with other artists by saving and loading presets.

Customizable Workspaces

Adapt 3ds Max to your personal way o working

by selecting rom a choice o deault or custom

workspaces. Each workspace can have individu

settings or menus, toolbars, ribbon, and viewp

tab presets; in addition, selecting a new worksp

can automatically execute a MAXScript. This

enables you to more easily congure the works

to suit your preerences or to t the task at han

3ds Max image courtesy o Platige

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With the AutodeskEntertainment CreationSuites, there is no suchthing as an impossibleproject in our studio.

Sbastien DostieVisual Eects Designer andSupervisorBoogie Studio

Maya and Sotimage image courtesy o UVPHAC

Autodesk Sotimage

utodesk Sotimage 2013 sotware delivers

owerul new creative toolsets, a new high

delity interactive environment, and extended

ustomizability. Enjoy greater creative reedom

cross the board: the completely new CrowdFX

mulation eature set, a new HighQuality

iewport, enhanced modeling, animation,

hysics, and selection tools. In addition, better

nteroperability with Autodesk Maya 2013 and

utodesk 3ds Max 2013 sotware, together with

xtensions to the SDK (sotware development kit)

elp acilitate integration into existing pipelines.

Key New Features in SotimagerowdFX

reate sophisticated crowd simulations in a

edicated environment within Sotimage. Using the

ower o the ICE (Interactive Creative Environment)

multithreaded particle system, you can create

massively complex eects with huge numbers

characters that react intelligently to their

nvironment and each other. CrowdFX simulations

an be easily exported to Maya or integration into

xisting Maya scenes.

High-Quality Viewport

ene your content more eciently using the

ew HighQuality Viewport to reduce the needo preview using a sotware renderer. With the

bility to evaluate your work interactively in an

nvironment that closely mimics the rendered

utput, you can make better creative decisions in

ess time.

Rigging and Animation Improvements

njoy improved overall productivity or everyday

nimation workows, thanks to a large number o

nhancements to the animation and rigging toolset.

he Animation Mixer, GATOR, the Dopesheet, the

Curve Editor, the Synoptic Editor, and Primitive

ones have all been improved.

Bullet Physics or ICE

The popular open source Bullet physics engine has

been integrated into ICE. The new Actual Shape

Collision option enables particlebased rigid body

dynamics to calculate ast collisions with complex

nonconvex meshes, and collide with deorming

meshes or more accurate simulations.

New Modeling Tools

The Sotimage polygon modeling toolset is

extended with new options or thickness, hole

capping, edge cutting, and extrusion. In addition,

the interactive toolset gains an intuitive new

Add Smooth Edge Loop tool that maintains the

contoured shape o an object when adding edgeloops, meaning no extra work is required to make

the mesh smooth or to keep the objects continuity.

New Selection Tools

Save time when perorming common and repetitive

tasks, with a wide range o new selection tools and

workows that make creating dierent component

selections signicantly easier and aster. Highlights

are: Quick Loop, Polygon Selection to Outline,

Select Border, and Loops rom Selection.

ICE Enhancements

Technical directors (TDs) can now attach and

run VBScript, Python, or Jscript code inside ICECompound Property Pages in order to modiy the

ICE Trees content or change a scene item or value.

In addition, a number o enhancements within ICE

help increase productivity.

SDK Enhancements

Sotimage 2013 oers new opportunities or

extension and customization, with a number o

additions to the SDK (Sotware Development Kit).

Sample Meshes and Scenes

New sample scenes and meshescomplete

with UVshelp you deconstruct ICE modeling

techniques and provide quick starting points or

modeling various characters and objects.

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3ds Max and MotionBuilder Assassins Creed Revelations, image courtesy o U

Autodesk MotionBuilder

utodesk MotionBuilder 2013 sotware helps teams

more reliably acquire, aggregate, and rene 3D

haracter animation and other production data.

With the option to record live motion capture data

irectly to disk, support or broadcast WAVE les,

nd the ability to output serial digital interace (SDI)

ideo, MotionBuilder 2013 oers a new nonlinear

diting platorm or Virtual Production. In addition,

with a exible new headsup display (HUD) and

oating viewer, animators and directors can each

enet rom customized views.

Key New Features in MotionBuilder 2013

ive Data Recording to Disk in Storynew option enables motion capture or certain

ther live input data to be recorded directly to disk,

ather than to memory; a representation o the

ata is added to the Story timeline, where it can be

oaded or editing when required. With this option,

ou are no longer limited by the amount o data that

will t into RAM, but only by the size o your hard

isk, eectively enabling you to record take ater

ake in rapid sequence.

Heads-Up Display

ake advantage o a exible new headsup display

HUD) eature set to render realtime metadata into

he viewer. HUD elements can contain staticr dynamic data: text elds, bitmaps, and aspect

atio masks are all supported. Choose rom a

umber o presets, or add a property reerence or

elationship constraint rom within the scene simply

y dragging it.

loating Viewer

rtists and directors can now each view the

cene inormation that is important to them

n an appropriate context, thanks to a new

loating Viewer that enables one camera view

o be displayed on a separate monitor rom the

main viewports.

Broadcast WAVE File Support

New support or proessional broadcast audio

WAVE les enables embedded timecode data to be

more accurately interpreted; as a result, video and

audio les can be more easily synchronized.

Story Clip Grouping

Simultaneously edit the timing o multiple clips,

thanks to a new Summary Clip option in the

Story timeline. The Summary Clip enables you to

translate, scale, or cut all o the clips in a older

o tracks in a single action. This provides a useul

method o making highlevel changes to multiple

characters at once.

Video Out

New in MotionBuilder 2013 is the ability to output

an SDI broadcast video signal. This is useul in

situations where a genlock reerence signal is

required: when capturing realtime video output

or ofine editorial, without having to wait or a

rendered le.

Z-Depth Selection

A number o new eatures make it easier to sele

objects, especially those with semitransparenc

You can now optionally select through semitran

parent objects; change the transparency thresh

through which selection is possible; and cycle

through objects based on their zbuer depth.

Audio Retiming

Audio clips can now be retimed in the Story tim

so you can more easily match audio timing with

timing o the animation.

Perormance Enhancements

Targeted perormance enhancements inMotionBuilder 2013 help increase overall

productivity to keep creativity owing. In parti

scene load time, merging assets rom multiple

scenes, and selecting objects in a scene with m

nodes are now signicantly aster.

Maya, MotionBuilder and Mudbox image courtesy o Guerril

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SketchBook Designer

Autodesk SketchBook Designer 2013 sotwa

enables you to explore and present new ide

or characters, props, and environments usi

an intuitive hybrid paint and vector toolset.

SketchBook Designer eatures sketching,painting, and image compositing workows

easy color manipulation; mixed media work

ows; and an industryunique transormatio

tool. The dynamic, scalable user interace is

optimized or both pen and mouse interac

tion, and is designed to oer maximum

creative reedom.

Maya, 3ds Max and Mudbox image courtesy o A

Autodesk Mudbox

utodesk Mudbox 2013 sotware helps you create

omplex, productionready scenes with greater

ase, thanks to the new Gigatexel engine or

reating massive amounts o detail, and the ability

o work eciently with signicantly more objects.

Meanwhile, the creative painting and sculpting

oolset is extended with new multipurpose curves;

he ability to combine bump and normal map

normation; and easier methods or creating and

xtracting tiled detail. In addition, with enhanced

nteroperability with Adobe Photoshop and support

or edge sharpness data, Mudbox 2013 oers better

ipeline integration.

Key New Features in Mudbox 2013

xtreme Detail with the New Gigatexel Engine

reate massive amounts o detailin the range

billions o texelsto produce the texture

omplexity required by todays highresolution

ormats and increasingly demanding consumers.

he amount o detail possible is limited only by

he artists hardware conguration. The Gigatexel

ngine works automatically and transparently to

elp you eciently handle exponentially more

ixelswith the quality and perormance benets

hat come with painting in true 3D.

Multipurpose CurvesDraw curves in screen space or in 3D space, and use

hem in a variety o ways to augment the painting

nd sculpting toolsets.

ustomizable Workspace

ongure the user interace to better accommodate

ndividual workows and preerences, with the

ew ability to customize, save, and share custom

workspaces.

Support or Edge Hardness, Creasing, and

Smoothing Groups

Enjoy the ability to more accurately interpret and

display models created in Autodesk Maya, Autodesk

3ds Max, Autodesk Sotimage sotware, and certain

other content creation solutions that contain

special data controlling the hardness, creasing, and

smoothing o particular edges.

Combine Bump and Normal Map Detail

Combine painted bump map detail with extracted

normal map detail to produce a single normal map

even in tangent space. You can now create relie

detail both by sculpting and painting, and combine

the results into a single map suitable or use ingames engines.

Sculpt and Paint Tiling Detail

Easily sculpt and paint tiled detail to create

seamlessly repeating textures and maps that can

be used to more eciently cover large surace

areas. Even o normal detail eaturing undercuts

and overhangs can be tiled and extracted as vector

displacement maps (VDMs). You can work with

a live view o the artwork repeating across the

surace to make better creative decisions while you

paint and sculpt.

Enhanced Photoshop InteroperabilityTake advantage o a more ully integrated workow

with Adobe Photoshop, with new support or

importing and exporting 6bit PSD les.

Duplicate and Flip Models

Easily duplicate objects, and optionally ip them

to create mirrored versions, helping save time

when objects are repeated on a model: columns

on a temple, or a pair o boots on a character. You

can also ip objects back and orth to get a resh

perspective while working.

Presets or Adjust Color

Easily manipulate or correct the colors o a pain

layer with new presets or Adjust Color that en

you to invert layers, apply inverse gamma corre

to photographic sources, extract luminance va

rom an image, and perorm certain other tasks

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The Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite enables ourveteran artists to design detailed scenes or some o thetop eature lms and video game cinematics in the industry.Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite is the backbone o ourprevisualization process, empowering us to help directors honetheir visions rom concept through the hando to nal visualeects with unprecedented eciency.

Chris EdwardsCEO and Creative DirectorRainmaker Entertainment, Inc.

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