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).

 

Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2012 software delivers inspiring new creative toolsets, enhanced terative workflows, and an accelerated graphics core that together help significantly increase overall productivity.

 

 Autodesk® Maya® 2012 software delivers powerful new toolsets for previsualization and games prototyping; offers extended simulation capabilities; and opens the way for better pipeline integration.

Autodesk^® Softimage^® 2012 software extends the capabilities of existing content creation pipelines for today’s demanding television, games, and film projects. Building on the power and flexibility of the Interactive Creation Environment (ICE), Softimage 2012 introduces a new procedural modeling paradigm; adds integrated support for Syflex cloth using ICE and Lagoa Multiphysics solvers; and provides easier access to a wider range of effects and rendered looks. In addition, with enhanced interoperability with Autodesk^® Entertainment Creation Suite Premium products, and an extended software development kit (SDK), Softimage 2012 is more easily integrated into production pipelines; meanwhile, new tools that embrace latest technology trends help customers meet the evolving challenges they face.

Autodesk^® Mudbox™ digital sculpting and texture painting software gives you the freedom to create production-ready 3D digital artwork without worrying about the technical details. Designed by professional artists from the game, film, television, and design industries, Mudbox combines an intuitive user interface with a powerful creative toolset of stencils and brushes for ultra-realistic 3D character modeling, engaging environments, and stylized props. Available for the Mac^®, Microsoft^® Windows^®, and Linux^® operating systems.

 

Autodesk® MotionBuilder® 2012 software delivers new tools for virtual movie-making, performance animation, and stereoscopic productions, and enhanced interoperability with other products in the Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suites 2012.