Nikie Monteleone is a Portland based Senior Surfacing Artist at local animation studio HouseSpecial, and one of the best Maya users in the world in my opinion. Anyone that has ever 3D modelled an object or character then textures and lighted the scene can appreciate the attention to…
Read MoreThe new version of 3ds Max 2019 was released last week. 3ds Max 2019 – Overview In addition to other new features like the edit scenes live in VR, one of the coolest features is the new Open Shader Language shaders (OSL). Here is a cool example of…
Read MoreOne of the top 3 requested 3ds Max Ideas site items is now complete with the addition of Bifröst Fluids which was previously only available for Maya. Tutorial: 3ds Max Fluids Part 1 – Basic Setup Read an overview of 3ds Max 2018.3 at the Autodesk’s AREA blog.…
Read MoreAutodesk has just released SketchBook Motion on the Apple App Store which was formerly available as as pre-release Project Draco from Autodesk Research. Now you can easily create compelling web based animations for illustrations or art using your Apple iPad. Read More about SketchBook Motion:http://www.sketchbook.com/blog/motion-new-app-sketchbook-pro-members/Today, we’re happy to…
Read MoreYes, back in the late 90s there was a creepy Dancing Baby “Baby Cha Cha” that seemed to be all the rage on the young growing Internet. Jon Bell a colleague here in the Autodesk Lake Oswego office has been involved with the Autodesk 3d Max /3D Studio…
Read MoreI wanted to share and highlight one of our amazing tech previews for Revit users that is getting great feedback in our Autodesk Feedback Community where Autodesk pre-release alpha/betas and Autodesk Labs projects are managed. Project Expo brings Revit models to life in an interactive real-time environment on…
Read MoreSome of my Autodesk colleagues sent me into a daytime nightmare feeling simply with a URL to a web page in my email. On the web page in Google Chrome of browser with WebGL you see a 3D shaded head model and as you move you curser the…
Read MoreI just read the Autodesk AEC blog post on Augmented Reality (AR) in the AEC industry. AR is a technology that will greatly enhance AEC and many other design and construction project needs to visualize the data over the existing structures. This is not to be confused with…
Read MoreI have used 3ds Max since release 1 and Autodesk/Kinetix 3D Studio for DOS prior to that and the new release has just been released and shown at NAB 2015. The new Autodesk 3ds Max 2016 release has many new great features – and no doubt the best release…
Read MoreWe at Autodesk have now placed a cool 500 LED cube in the Autodesk Gallery. This cube was developed by an intern and responds with lighting up pulsating LED lights and effects to hashtags on Twitter. Huge thanks to the Autodesk intern and also Autodesk Social Media maestro…
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