The Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suites offer creativity and productivity for less. Purchasing a suite saves you 35 percent on the cost of buying all three products separately.

Autodesk Maya 2011 Entertainment Creation Suite includes:

• Maya 2011
• MotionBuilder 2011
• Mudbox 2011

Existing users of Maya or Motionbuilder can upgrade their license to Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite.

The Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suites offer creativity and productivity for less. Purchasing a suite saves you 35 percent on the cost of buying all three products separately.

Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 Entertainment Creation Suite includes:

• 3ds Max 2011
• MotionBuilder 2011
• Mudbox 2011

Existing users of 3ds Max or Motionbuilder can upgrade their license to Autodesk 3ds Max Entertainment Creation Suite.

Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2011 software offers compelling new techniques for creating and texturing models, animating characters, and producing higher-quality images in less time. Significant enhancements to the modeling and texturing toolset, accessed through a new in-context user interface, help accelerate everyday workflows, while non-destructive layered editing of Containers helps facilitate collaboration in parallel. Meanwhile, fully-integrated, high-performance toolsets for creating, managing, and animating characters help quickly bring scenes to life. And, with a new node-based material editor, a high-quality hardware renderer, in-viewport display of texture maps and materials, and a fully-featured HDR-capable compositor, creating stunning, photo-realistic images is easier than ever.

Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2011 software offers compelling new techniques for bringing designs to life by aggregating data, iterating ideas, and presenting the results. Streamlined, intelligent data exchange workflows and innovative new modeling and visualization tools help significantly increase designers’ creativity and productivity, enabling them to better explore, validate, and communicate the stories behind their designs.

Autodesk® Maya® 2011 software features powerful new tools for helping create and repurpose character animation: enhanced skinning capabilities and nondestructive live motion retargeting. Its new 3D Editorial timeline helps accelerate pre-visualization and virtual movie-making workflows, while an invigorated user interface helps improve artists’ efficiency and creativity. Maya 2011 addresses today’s demanding production requirements with its high-performance viewport display of large scenes, integrated color management, scene segmentation, improved rotoscoping, and new UI toolkit. With support for 64-bit Mac OS® X as well as Linux® and Windows® operating systems, Maya is now more accessible than ever, offering artists an end-to-end creative workflow at exceptional value.

Autodesk® Softimage® 2011 software introduces innovative new rendering, animation, and simulation tools that help artists and technical directors (TDs) create more complex, high-quality characters and effects in less time. With new support for kinematics in ICE (Interactive Creative Environment), TDs can use the intuitive, node-based interface to more rapidly create and troubleshoot advanced character rigs, while artists can quickly generate lip-synced facial animation based on an audio file in Face Robot® facial animation toolset. Meanwhile, an advanced new shading architecture and editing environment automatically hosts external shaders and renderers without the need to build custom shader UI.

Autodesk® MotionBuilder® 2011 software delivers features that enable it to integrate more smoothly and reliably into production pipelines. With extended animation layers that closely match those in Autodesk® Maya® 2011 software, a more consistent method for handling materials, and native support for Autodesk® FBX® 2011 asset exchange technology, artists will find it easier to use MotionBuilder 2011 alongside certain other products. In addition, skinning and blendshape deformations are now calculated on the GPU, the in-viewport experience is significantly more interactive, and playback many times faster, while the Story Tool offers greater stability and performance.