Autodesk

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Autodesk develops 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk has developed the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art digital prototyping solutions to help customers experience their ideas before they are real. Fortune 1000 companies rely on Autodesk for the tools to visualize, simulate and analyze real-world performance early in the design process to save time and money, enhance quality and foster innovation.

Digital artists relied on Autodesk's media and entertainment solutions to deliver the summer of 2007's blockbuster entertainment.

For Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, post-production facility Asylum completed 315 shots with a visual effects pipeline that included the Autodesk Flame and Autodesk Toxik visual effects solutions, Autodesk Maya 3D animation software, and Autodesk Lustre digital color grading system. The Flame system was used in the scene when Sparrow is exiled to a desert purgatory and hallucinates and to create the climactic maelstrom backdrop along with computer-generated characters, mast extensions on miniature ships and track shots. Toxik was used for compositing, color correction, and final tweaks. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) was the main visual effects house. ILM used Maya and Flame as part of its proprietary SABRE visual effects system to create computer-generated characters and Maelstrom sequence.

Transformers exploded onto the big screen as evil Decepticons re-wage war on heroic Autobots. ILM used Maya and Inferno as part of its proprietary SABRE visual effects system to complete 460 shots for the film. Maya was used for all character animation. Autodesk Inferno was used on two key compositing sequences, including the Bonecrusher scene where a destructive thirty-foot rollerblading robot shreds through a moving bus. The robot's bones were created using Maya and imported into Inferno, and were animated and combined with flying and burning debris.

For the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, the Orphanage completed approximately 120 shots on the film, with the majority of shots involving Maya 3D animation software.

In Surf's Up from Sony Pictures Imageworks, the Autodesk Lustre color grading system was used for the film's final grade. Also, a combination of software was used to create the final water animation, with much of it completed using Maya. By leveraging the power of Maya Embedded Language (MEL) Python and Maya's API scripting, the Sony Pictures Imageworks team customized the Maya software to overcome many of the film's challenges.

For Evan Almighty, Rhythm + Hues used Autodesk Maya to create computer-generated characters and CafeFX used Maya to model and animate sixty CG salt-water tropical fish

For 28 Weeks Later, Prime Focus London used Autodesk Flame, Inferno and Smoke to create all of the film's photorealistic 3D shots.

For Live Free or Die Hard, Digital Dimension completed 182 shots using Autodesk 3ds Max to create 3D cars, 3D buildings, 3D crowds, 3D smoke and matte painting

On August 1, 2007, Autodesk Toxik 2008 was released.

Website: http://www.autodesk.com/