The Autodesk^® Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2012 offers artists and production facilities access to a powerful range of creative toolsets at an exceptional value. Extend your familiar Autodesk^® 3ds Max^® or Autodesk^® Maya^® software workflow with intuitive tools for sculpting and texture painting; real-time character animation; and effects.  Expand your creativity and enhance your production efficiency through access to specialized tools designed to handle tough production challenges.
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What software is included in the Entertainment Creation Suites?

The Autodesk^® Entertainment Creation Suites 2012 offer artists and production facilities access to a powerful range of creative toolsets at exceptional value. The Suite offers a choice of either Autodesk^® Maya^® 2012 software or Autodesk^® 3ds Max^® 2012 software, and includes Autodesk^® MotionBuilder^® 2012 real-time character animation software, and Autodesk^® Mudbox™ 2012 digital sculpting and texture painting software. With the Premium option, artists additionally have access to Autodesk^® Softimage^® 2012 software to create sophisticated effects and high-quality facial animation. Use the power of the Suites to create modern, flexible pipelines that support today’s projects and scale for tomorrow’s opportunities.

 

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Transfer assets quickly, collaborate efficiently, and work productively using Autodesk^® FBX^® data exchange technology. FBX provides an open platform for rich 3D data exchange between applications.

Specific interoperability enhancements of the 2012 Suites include:

• Single-step interoperability between 3ds Max and Mudbox, MotionBuilder and the Softimage Interactive Creative Environment (ICE)
• Single-step interoperability between Maya and Mudbox, MotionBuilder and the Softimage Interactive Creative Environment (ICE)
• Consistent f-curve editor for 3ds Max, Maya, MotionBuilder and Softimage
• Vector Displacement Map support for high-resolution details created in Mudbox can be transferred to Maya, 3ds Max or Softimage for rendering on low-resolution geometry
• Ptex map transfers from Mudbox to Maya

Other interoperability features of the Suites include:

• Ability to use either Maya or 3ds Max shortcut keys from both Mudbox and MotionBuilder
• mental ray^® Standalone renderer is a single executable that works with all products within the Suite
• Common Animation Layers between Maya and MotionBuilder
• Exchange of Maya Full Body Inverse Kinematics (FBIK) character rigs with MotionBuilder
• Exchange of 3ds Max Biped character rigs with MotionBuilder
• Exchange fully solved Face Robot heads from Softimage to Maya (Maya Premium Suite)
• Turtle - a sophisticated baking plugin for Maya used for lighting and content creation in next-gen game development (Maya Entertainment Creation Suite Standard and Premium).