Krakatoa MY and XMesh MY open source, oh my!
AWS renders the two Autodesk Maya plug-ins open source after making them free a few months ago.
Autodesk CEO: The company is looking at a very ‘cloudy’ future
Autodesk University opened with a New Orleans theme. Autodesk President and CEO Andrew Anagnost took the stage on the first day (September 28) of Autodesk University 2022 to a packed hall at the convention center in New Orleans, to rousing rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In” by musicians and dancers/entertainers in Mardi Gras style. It was a great … Read more
Autodesk announces Flow for M&E
Autodesk’s Flow, an industrial cloud Autodesk is developing for M&E. (Source: Autodesk) Some may look at the annual Autodesk University as a conference for AEC, architecture, and manufacturing. And it is. But, there’s also a focus on the company’s “other” business: media and entertainment. Here, Autodesk announced Flow, a new industry cloud for M&E that will connect user workflows, … Read more
Autodesk offers its toolset to a wider audience with Maya Creative
(Source: Autodesk and Gabriel Richaud) Used throughout many major film and game studios, Autodesk’s Maya is the software behind a plethora of stunning visuals in leading-edge projects. Since it was introduced in 1998, Maya has continued to offer a growing list of new features and functions that serve artists well in just about every aspect of their content creation. But, … Read more
Autodesk takes aim at the factory
Once upon a time, the way the world worked in manufacture seemed pretty clear: the big engines of China and nearby smaller countries pumped out low-cost products. Consumers in the west bought whole bunches of the low-cost products and then sent them back to Asia to recycle. It was efficient, if not particularly equitable, or sustainable. Meanwhile, software vendors in … Read more
Autodesk buys Tangent in a push for cloud-based workflows
Autodesk’s Media and Entertainment division is rebuilding itself within the Autodesk enterprise. The company has always wanted its DCC division with its enormous wealth of creative tools to be able to serve the entire company as well as be a major force in professional entertainment content creation. We’re seeing those first steps. Things change quickly these days. At Autodesk’s … Read more
Autodesk upends software development and licensing
Usually, Autodesk University is a crowded, messy affair, full of front-line workers set loose in Las Vegas for a few days of hanging out, learning, sharing tips and tricks, gossiping, and so on. That hasn’t happened in two years. Instead, these digital conferences are all business and blessedly a lot less talk. Over this period, what has also happened is … Read more
Autodesk makes bid for Altium PCB Design company
Autodesk has made a bid for Altium, a PCB design company with customers in industries coveted by Autodesk, and lots of other people too. Altium is not going to roll over easily… there’s more talking to be done and other interested players. UPDATE: Autodesk withdrew its bid for Altium on July 20, 2021. So, keep walking, nothing to see … Read more
Autodesk and Weta Digital take to the cloud together
Cloud-based production platforms for digital content are slowly making their way into use because it’s an obviously good idea. It’s happening slowly because it’s an obviously tricky thing to do since it requires an openness and willingness to collaborate that’s just a step too far for some vendors. It will happen as the drive for openness continues among the content … Read more
Autodesk introduces significant update to Flame
Apparently, Autodesk’s developers have not been waiting out the pandemic. In response to user requests and experiences during the pandemic, Autodesk has taken advantage of emerging technologies to add more than 40 improvements to Flame 2022. The company has taken advantage of Machine Learning (ML) to make significant improvements to Flame’s camera tracking capabilities, finishing, and color grading. In fact, … Read more
Autodesk closes out a successful fiscal 2021 widens its ambitions
Autodesk says it has made good progress toward digitizing AEC, advancing its design and manufacture workflow, and pushing into the Enterprise. One of Autodesk’s key fundraising strategies is to convert “non-compliant users” into paying customers and to upgrade all subscribers to user-identified subscriptions. Autodesk says this program has been a big success, and also, they’ve raised their full-year subscription revenues … Read more
USD gets major support from Autodesk and partners
This week, Autodesk announces its latest updates for Maya, 3ds Max, and MotionBuilder. In addition, Autodesk says it’s supporting USD, the Open Source format originally developed by Pixar with strong industry support from customers and software developers. Support for USD is more complex than it might seem at first, and that’s because its purpose is to enable disparate companies to … Read more