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AUGI HotNews May 2012 - Spring Release: New Autodesk Software
Features Letter from the President - 2012 May AUGI President David Harrington takes a look at recent AUGI developments. Spring Release: New Autodesk Software Autodesk has made the transition to new software easier, but there are still some protocols you......
Max Nation | Chris Murray
Submitting sessions for Autodesk University because its good Karma
Here are some tips on submitting classes for AU and explains why submitting would make you a better person. The deadline is May 22nd....
Mayalicious | Cory Mogk
Maya and MotionBuilder Custom HIK Control Technology Preview
A movie you might like to watch :)...
Marc’s Blog | Marc Petit
“The Adventures of Tintin” Screening
“The Adventures of Tintin” Screening...
Duncan’s Corner | Duncan Brinsmead
I have put together a talk on emergent phenomena in Maya for Siggraph that one can currently view on the area. here are some of the scene files and scripts mentioned in that talk....
Games, Limb from Limb! | Eric Plante
The Mythbusters guys demonstrated recently that “hitting the ground running” actually doesn’t get you where you want to be any faster; of course, seeing as they also tried to polish an actual turd on the same show, we can safely assume that the notion of analogy is a bit lost on them. I just started at Autodesk two months ago, and I’ve hit the ground running. I thought my six years at EA had shown me how engaging my work can be to me, but wow. After two months at Autodesk, I can confidently...
Into the pixels | Jean-Francois Yelle
This blog is about my current focus on 3ds Max as the technical product manager. If 3ds Max is the Millenium Falcon, then I'm definitely a wookie (yes, a geek one). Expect my focus to drift in time. I figured that, as a first blog post, I should tell you guys what I'm interested in (today)....
Amalgamation | Gary M. Davis
Some of the Media & Entertainment team recently visited Portland, Oregon and slam-dunked a three hour demoset of all the 2012 software products to a packed house!...
Maya in Motion | Marcel de Jong
Concept design in Sketchbook Pro, Maya, and Mudbox 6
Another little rendering trick to accomplish a rendering effect that resembles filleting....
You and M&E | Darren Brooker
Red Bull gives UK animation wings
Red Bull's Canimation competition saw hundreds of animators from both the commercial & student communities compete...with some incredible results...
The Art of VFX | Vincent Frei
THE THING: Jesper Kjolsrud – VFX Supervisor – Image Engine
Jesper Kjolsrud began his career on the film THE BORROWERS. After working 10 years in London with MPC and Double Negative on films such as PITCH BLACK, STALINGRAD, THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK or 10,000 BC. In 2009, Jesper joined teams Image Engine in Vancouver. He will work on the films DISTRICT 9, GREEN ZONE or THE LOSERS. In the following interview, he talks about his work on THE THING....
The Desk | Daryl Obert
Quick overview of a few very useful hot keys in Maya....
3d Latino | Victor Herrera
Aquí encontraras noticias, tutoriales , videos y muchas cosas más del mundo 3d en Latinoamérica....
Flame Premium can do that | Bill Ennis
Wow! NAB 2010 is still like a blur to me, a 3D Blur with lots of samples! The new version of Flame V2011 is amazing, it's clearly the best release ever. Jammed packed with new features like Pixel Shaders, Substance Textures and new Workflows like 3D Stereoscopy.......
The MudRoom | Craig Barr
3D World: Sculpt and Paint with Mudbox
Check out my sculpting and painting article in the latest issue of 3D World!...
My Oh Maya! | Steven Roselle
Maya Tip for the New Year: Substance Bonus Pack (...plus Happy Holidays!!)
In this short demonstration you'll get an overview of Substance procedural textures in Maya 2012. I'll also show a practical example of how to create a tiled wood floor using one of the additional free textures from the Substance Bonus Tools pack....
The Smoke Learning Blog | Grant Kay
Autodesk Smoke: Motion Animations with the 3D Path
The 3D Path - Another dynamic animation tool in side of Action that allows you to have any object animating along the path in 3D Space. Learn how to set it up and take full advantage of your 3D space. Alignment and orientation included. Check it out!...
Planet Softimage | Mark Schoennagel
Softimage kicks butt at CGSociety.org!
Softimage took home some sweeeeet awards at CGSociety.org's annual CGRetrospective plus a link for next weeks Maya Softimage Interop Webinar....
With Design in Mind | Eddie Perlberg
Revit to 3ds Max Design with VRay/Mental Ray workflow
Dan Jurgens demonstrates at the Revit Technology Conference 2010. After seeing this, you will be invincible with this workflow....
Blend & Comp | Ken LaRue
Maya Composite & 3ds max Composite Vector Paint
In these 2 videos Autodesk Compositing Specialist Ken LaRue demonstrates the new vector paint tool in Maya Composite and 3ds max Composite....
The Suite Spot | Graham Bell
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No...
..it’s just some dude flying a drone so he can take photographs to turn into 3D models, with Photofly....
MaxStation | Max Team
A point to keep in mind when saving a scene to a previous version of 3ds Max that uses the Retime Tool....
Suite-ish | Lee Fraser
Rigging Webcast links and Characterization in MotionBuilder 2012
Some links from the recent webcast I did on rigging and some MotionBuilder items by request or didn't have time to cover....
3ds Max & Moritz | Alex Horst
This is an introduction to the German-based blog 3ds Max & Moritz. I’m showing how to add RSS feeds to iGoogle & Co in terms of keeping track of all these blogs and news pages out there....
pointSnap | Fianna Wong
Diamant Modeling Tools Alpha 1.0
Blizzard Lead Character Modeler Rich Diamant recently released a set of handy modeling+UV tools for Maya, "Diamant Modeling Tools Alpha 1.0". I'm lucky enough to get a hold of Rich to ask him a few questions about DMT, here's what he had to say......
3D Roadie | Shawn Hendriks
Here are Four quick tips videos created by Chris Murray. Think of these as reminders of functionality many people did not know was there....
Taking it to the Max!
Register Now – Live Webinar on iray in 3ds Max
Join us for an “Introduction to iray in 3ds Max” which will provide an extensive overview of iray, explaining both what it is and how it differs from previous rendering technology....
Louis Marcoux Blog | Louis Marcoux
Matchmover and 3ds Max - 3D Tracking Workflow
Matchmover is available to all subscription customers for 3ds Max 2010 and 3ds Max 2011. It's one of the great values added when being on subscription for 3ds Max. In this set of video tutorials, you will see how Matchmover and 3ds Max work together. You'll be able to see how an image sequence can be used to extract 3D information that can be used in 3ds Max to create a perfect match between virtual elements and the 2D image sequence, even if the camera has fast and unstable movements....
3D SDK and Scripting Mayhem | Christopher Diggins
Launching Python Scripts from the 3ds Max 2012 Subscription Advantage Pack
The enhancements to the .NET SDK in the 3ds Max 2012 Subscription Advantage Pack are particularly interesting when used from IronPython, but how do you launch an IronPython script from 3ds Max? I'll tell you how....
Maxed Out | Ken Pimentel
Media Design: a brave new term for a brave new world
We're starting up a conversation around media design and digital media, part of a new effort we're launching in 2012...
Between the Poles
Chrome browser exceeds IE for the first time
According to StatCounter, Google's Chrome share of the market rose to 32.8% in the week ending May 20, while Internet Explorer's share of the market dropped to 31.9%. This is the first week that Chrome has exceeded Internet Explorer....
AutoCAD Insider
Okay, all you pressure-prompted people! The time for procrastinating is past! Today’s the LAST DAY to answer the Call for Proposals for AU 2012. You don’t have to have the whole class written, just a synopsis. Classes can be tips......
Lynn Allen's Blog
Kick up the IQ of your AutoCAD objects
I’m not going to lie…I don’t want to do any more work than I absolutely have to. The ultimate punishment for me – having to do things over again! Smart objects ultimately mean less work for me in the long......
Through the Interface
Creating a 3D viewer for our Apollonian service using HTML5 Part 3
To finish off our look at developing an HTML5-based 3D viewer for our Apollonian web-service, today’s post integrates the trackball capability of the Three.js library. Many thanks to Jeff Geer for once again pointing me in the right direction on......
Without A Net
A new service pack for AutoCAD 2012 and AutoCAD LT 2012 is now available at the following links: [AutoCAD 2012 Service Pack 2][1] [AutoCAD LT 2012 Service Pack 2][2] Consult the readme file for installation instructions and be sure to......
Between the Walls
AutoCAD Architecture 2010 and AutoCAD MEP 2010 Update 2 Released
Autodesk has released Update 2 for AutoCAD Architecture 2010 and AutoCAD MEP 2010. http://bit.ly/d3HfrA & http://bit.ly/9ApjyI...
LT Unlimited
Okay, all you pressure-prompted people! The time for procrastinating is past! Today’s the LAST DAY to answer the Call for Proposals for AU 2012. You don’t have to have the whole class written, just a synopsis. Classes can be tips......
DaVinci
WoodStEx 2011 — European Engineering and Design Students At Work
via www.youtube.com...
Morphorm
Alias Beta Testers Wanted! That means you!
Want to give Autodesk your feedback on future releases of Alias? Yes? Then sign up to be a beta tester and you can be among the first to get your hands on the latest beta release. BTW, Alias 2013 Beta 1 is now available so sign up and give your feedback directly to the Alias development team. https://beta.autodesk.com/callout/?callid=A1DADF813AEA4FB88CA1732087E93C35 While you're at it check out and like our Facebook page. Connect to a growing design community of fellow Alias users and enthusiasts....
Beyond the Paper
Project Blink Beta - Sign Up Today!
Our partners over at Autodesk Labs want to let you know that Autodesk customers can sign up for the Project Blink Beta. Project Blink provides you with the ability to access your design software from anywhere. Interested? Limited number of......
Maya Station
When I move a joint, its parent changes orientation
You are trying to position joints in your scene with the Move tool, and you notice that Maya is changing the orientation of the selected joint's parent joint. In order to preserve the orientation of the parent joint, follow these steps:: 1) open the Move Tool settings 2) in the tab Joint Orient Settings, disable the option Automatically Orient Joints...
Easter Island Prokect Diary
Nobody knows who carved the huge stone figures, or why. There are 1000 of them, ranging from 6 feet to more than 30 feet in height. The biggest weighs about 270 tons. All have the same appearance: a long shaped......
Cracking the Vault
In Which Applications Can I Find the Autodesk Vault Add-in?
Here is a list of applications that have Vault 2013 Integrations. Application Vault Basic 2013 Vault Workgroup 2013 Vault Collaboration 2013 Vault Professional 2013 Vault Office 2013 Alias 2013 Yes Yes Yes Yes Alias Automative 2013 Yes Yes Yes Yes......
It's All Just Ones and Zeros
The Autodesk Developer Network has put out a bunch of new blogs recently. These blogs cover the APIs for all Autodesk products. There you will find tips, tricks and all the sample code you can eat. The Vault stuff can be found in the Manufacturing DevBlog. There are also DevBlogs for AEC, AutoCAD, and infrastructure....
Under the Hood
PLM Tip of the Week - Linking Workspaces in PLM 360
“That rug really tied the rooms together,” -The Dude Lebowski Today’s post will cover some best practices in tying linking data together within PLM 360. Items from one Workspace can call upon and provide a link to items in another Workspace. There are a number of ways to do this,......
It is Alive in the Lab
The POV Interview: Vijay Vaitheeswaran
It's time for another excerpt from our internally distributed newsletter POV (Point of View) Dispatch. Vijay Vaitheeswaran is an award winning correspondent for The Economist. His new book on the future of global innovation is Need, Speed, and Greed: How......
Voice of Community
An event is not a community, but...
My wise friend and brilliant futurist Wayne Hodgins once told me, “never confuse an event with community” but there I was at Autodesk University 2011 the other week, surrounded by community. Communities of mechanical engineers, automotive engineers, civil engineers: bridge builders, highway engineers, canal builders, “dirt movers”; architects – high rise and low density residential, hotel and stadium architects, institutional architects designing schools, hospitals, universities and prisons;...
Classroom Connection
Animation Academy - Providing Another Pathway...
If you haven’t read it – you better. By "it" I’m referring to the draft report on Multiple Pathways developed by WestEd. created in response to CA Assembly Bill 2648 (Bass) that “ requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction......
Engineering Education for Mechanically Inclined
PLM in Education? Is that really even possible?
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is a term that’s been around for a long time. It’s also a subject that has been made to seem so incredibly large in scope that only a few wise sages huddled in caves on steep......
Point-to-Point
Electrical Controls in Industrial Robots
Not too long ago, I posted a piece about the FIRST Robotics competition, Electro Mechanical design on a smaller scale. Well, here is a scaled up version!! Autodesk just released a press release that you can read here: Autodesk.com newsroom. It speaks to how Kawasaki Heavy Industry adopted Autodesk Digital Prototyping software to design electrical controls in industrial robots. To quote Hashimoto-san, the GM of the Robot Division "... With AutoCAD Electrical, we can achieve greater efficiency and...
CAD Application Development
Point Cloud Fix in Revit 2012 Web Update 1
One of the biggest problems that people have had with the new Point Cloud capabilities of Revit 2012 is how it dealt with multiple point clouds inserted into your Revit project. If you had multiple scans that all were from the same origin, and you inserted them all origin-to-origin, then they would all line up, right? wrong...Some of the problem related to how Revit handled large coordinate values (as you may know, Revit doesn't like it when elements start showing up miles from the model origin)....
CADDHELP
Recently bought a Dell XPS9100. Be sure you research the components before you buy from Dell...or you will regret it. I've had several problems so far all related to the video card and misinformation on the Dell website. Then in trying to sort it out I get the runaround between sales, technical support, returns, etc. That of course is broken up by the eventual disconnect at about the 45-50 min mark during the support call. At this point I have given up...sigh....
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