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Storyboards, character design

Create production-quality meshes with animation-ready
topology from scanned, imported, or sculpted data
with Mudbox 3D digital sculpting and texture painting software

Explore and present new ideas for characters, props,
and environments using a hybrid paint and vector toolset

Mudbox


Entertainment Creation Suite
SketchBook Pro

Previsualization

Take a more innovative approach to shot planning with
the 3D Editorial toolset in Maya 3D animation, modeling,
simulation, rendering, and compositing software.

Quickly lay out shots using motion capture data.

Entertainment Creation Suite
Maya

Entertainment Creation Suite
MotionBuilder

Motion capture cleanup

Quickly make changes to dense motion capture
data with cleanup, filtering, blending, and editing features.

Entertainment Creation Suite
MotionBuilder

Model

Create convincing, high-quality characters, props,
and environments for your film and television productions
with Autodesk modeling solutions.

UVs

Quickly produce higher quality UV maps on complex models
with Autodesk visual effects software.

Shaders, textures

Paint intricate textures across multiple high-resolution maps
and exchange multilayer files with Photoshop software
using the 3D Paint toolset in Mudbox 3D sculpting
and texture painting software.

Build complex shaders more easily with the Slate
node-based material editor.

Develop the look you need for your models with
artist-friendly shading and texturing toolsets.

Entertainment Creation Suite
Mudbox

Entertainment Creation Suite
3ds Max

Entertainment Creation Suite
Maya

Skinning, rigging

Speed your character setup process with automatic
character rigging.

Create realistic characters with tools for smooth skinning
and interactive volume binding in Maya 3D animation,
modeling, simulation, rendering, and compositing software.

Create advanced rigging elements and drive the movement
and behaviors of characters with flexible tools
in Softimage software, part of Entertainment Creation Suite.

Wire one-way and two-way relationships between
controllers for a customized keying animation method

Entertainment Creation Suite
MotionBuilder

Entertainment Creation Suite
Maya

Entertainment Creation Suite

Entertainment Creation Suite
3ds Max

Matte paintings

Use both pen and mouse for more creative freedom
with SketchBook Designer software, part of Entertainment
Creation Suite.

Create matte paintings through the use of perspective
matching, camera mapping, and render layer management.

Entertainment Creation Suite
3ds Max

Camera extraction

Experience 2D film and 3D animation using MatchMover
software to accurately place 3D objects into a video or film sequence.

Count on accurate results, even when mixing 2D and 3D elements,
creating a single composite in Flame Premium creative
finishing software for high-end post-production.

Entertainment Creation Suite
3ds Max
Maya
MatchMover

Flame
Flame Premium

3D data transfer

Exchange digital assets with studios that use different tools
than your own with FBX data exchange technology.

Animation

Produce better animation in less time by adding MotionBuilder
real-time animation software to Maya 3D animation, modeling,
simulation, rendering, and compositing software
or 3ds Max modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing software.

Develop convincing character animation with accelerated
skinning workflow, and nondestructive live retargeting.

Create compelling content faster with enhanced modeling,
animation, physics, and selection tools.

Create more realistic animations using built-in character
rigs in CAT and Character Studio that are compatible with
a range of motion-capture file formats.

Entertainment Creation Suite
MotionBuilder

Entertainment Creation Suite
Maya

Entertainment Creation Suite

Entertainment Creation Suite
3ds Max

Simulation

Create realistic simulations that interact more
believably with characters and environments using
an extensive range of toolsets for simulation.

Lighting

Quickly set up advanced photorealistic lighting and custom shaders.

Easily create global illumination and then bake into texture maps,
vertex maps, or point clouds with the Turtle plug-in for Maya.

Rendering

Create higher-fidelity previews in less time with the Quicksilver
hardware renderer in 3ds Max 3D modeling, animation,
rendering, and compositing software.

Simplify your workflow with the ability to work in
a unified mental ray Standalone software executable.

Entertainment Creation Suite
3ds Max

mental ray Standalone

Pre-comp

Enhance rendered passes and incorporate them
into live action footage with Composite, a fully featured,
high-performance, high dynamic range (HDR)-capable compositor.

Composite

Create advanced graphics, color grade, or perform
high-speed 2D and 3D compositing.

Expand layer-based timeline effects with a single click
|into a customizable, schematic view.

Maintain total control over lighting in your project.

Finishing, conform

Quickly create multilayer timelines that can be shared
between VFX, editorial, and grading using conform
and versioning tools.

Import projects from Final Cut Pro X via XML and access
multilayer timelines and media using AAF.

Editing

Quickly move between organizing clips, source/record editing,
color matching, and visual effects.

Make changes and updates more easily with rendered
results that are automatically fed back into your timeline.

Grade

Create stylized looks, shape color and lighting, and establish
narrative tone using color grading tools.

Create looks, match shots, or grade entire projects
with color correction tools in your timeline.