Vista Support in Autodesk 2008 Products

Microsoft Vista Compatibility – Vista Support in Autodesk 2008 Products

Thanks to the close collaboration between Autodesk and Microsoft, many applications in Autodesk’s 2008 product line are compatible with Windows Vista™. Learn more about the compatibility of specific Autodesk 2008 products with the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system:

* AutoCAD * AutoCAD Architecture * […]

Computer Arts reviews 3D Studio Max 2008

Computer Arts reviews 3D Studio Max 2008

For this release, Autodesk is concentrating on consolidation and not on adventure. The speed improvements on their own mean this version offers more productivity than any earlier release. While there’s a worry that from now 3D Studio will be refreshed slightly rather than being reworked, there are […]

Maya and LightWave bring to life the new Terminator

Maya and LightWave bring to life the new Terminator

“Being a designer/visual effects supervisor, I was designing like a good engineer designs in terms of the economy of later for when I actually had to build this thing. We did build an extremely articulate, expressionistic, emoting Terminator. It’s a very complicated Maya model that […]

The Software That Will Take Digital F/X to the Next Level of Awesome

The Software That Will Take Digital F/X to the Next Level of Awesome

Stam likes hideous complications. He works for Autodesk, the software company that produces Maya, the worlds leading 3-D modeling software. Maya has shaped nearly every CG visual effect youve seen since 1998 — from the first Matrix to the newest Spider-Man.

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CG Top 20 Retrospective 2007

CG Top 20 Retrospective 2007

ZBrush 3.1, Maya 2008, Creative Suite 3, and 3ds MAX 2008 profiled in the CG Top 20 Retrospective 2007.

Unreal Tournament 3 – Unreal Engine powered workflow

Unreal Tournament 3 – Unreal Engine powered workflow

The Krall featured in the original Unreal Tournament as a low-poly ‘wide-mouthed frog’ with a spear, supposedly a fierce warrior. “We felt that this character could totally be transformed into a really mean looking beast,” Jones says, “and with some additional concept work the character maintained the […]

AMD Phenom 9600 Vs. Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600: Fight!

AMD Phenom 9600 Benchmarked and Reviewed: Content Creation: 3D Modeling and Rendering Benchmarks AMD Phenom 9600 Vs. Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600: Fight!

Content Creation: 3D Modeling and Rendering Benchmarks

Now we turn to performance using actual working applications. We’ll take a look at a pair of popular 3D modeling and rendering tools: 3ds Max […]

Maya 2008 and 3ds Max 2008 Now Shipping!

Maya 2008 and 3ds Max 2008 Now Shipping!

Does Quad Core Matter?: Content Creation: 3D Modeling and Rendering

Does Quad Core Matter?: Content Creation: 3D Modeling and Rendering

Now we turn to performance using actual working applications. We’ll take a look at a pair of popular 3D modeling and rendering tools: 3ds Max 8 and LightWave 9. 3ds Max performs double duty here, as we run the SPECapc 3ds Max 8 test, […]

Creation Engine Academic Discounts 09.21.2007

Creation Engine Academic Discounts 09.21.2007