The Premium Suite includes:
• Softimage
• Maya
• MotionBuilder
• Mudbox

The Standard Suite includes:
• Maya
• MotionBuilder
• Mudbox

The Premium Suite includes:
• Softimage
• 3ds Max
• MotionBuilder
• Mudbox

The Standard Suite includes:
• 3ds Max
• MotionBuilder
• Mudbox

Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2012 software delivers inspiring new creative toolsets, enhanced iterative workflows, and an accelerated graphics core that together help significantly increase overall productivity. From multi-threaded rigid-body dynamics, to the physically accurate ‘point-and-shoot’ iray® renderer from mental images, to the Nitrous render-quality accelerated viewports, 3ds Max 2012 delivers cutting-edge tools that leverage the latest hardware advances. Moreover, with versatile procedural textures; enhanced mapping, painting, and sculpting toolsets; and single-step interoperability with other products in the Autodesk® 3ds Max® Entertainment Creation Suites, 3ds Max 2012 helps artists meet the confllicting demands of shrinking deadlines and increasing consumer expectations for quality.

Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2012 software delivers powerful new rendering toolsets, enhanced iterative workflows, and an accelerated graphics core that together help increase overall productivity. Featuring the physically accurate iray® renderer from mental images, versatile procedural textures, and stylized rendering capabilities, 3ds Max Design 2012 helps designers present their creative vision more effectively. Moreover, with the Nitrous render designers can more rapidly iterate on their ideas to achieve more compelling end results. And, with new interoperability with Autodesk® Alias® industrial design applications and automated workflows with AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software, designers can more seamlessly aggregate their CAD data into powerful storytelling visualizations.

Autodesk® Maya® 2012 software delivers new toolsets for previsualization and games prototyping, extended simulation capabilities, and improved pipeline integration. Artists can more easily exp plore, refine, and present their ideas prior to final production, thanks to a high-fidelity, high-performannce viewport; node-based render passes; camera sequencer enhancements; and new camera rigs, while editable motion trails make animating easier. With new physics solvers, together with enhancements to the Nucleus unified simulation framework, artists can create a wider range of convincing effects in less time. In addition, added support for vector displacement and Ptex maps and single-step interoperability with Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suites products deliver smoother multi-application workflows.

Autodesk® Softimage® 2012 software extends the capabilities of existing content creation pipeliines 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 modeeling 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 thee evolving challenges they face.

Autodesk® MotionBuilder® 2012 software delivers new tools to better facilitate virtual movie-making and performance animation productions, together with more efficient multi-application workflows with other products in the Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suites 2012. Thanks to its stereoscopic toolsets and new ways to handle valuable supporting video and audio material from motion capture sessions, MotionBuilder 2012 helps studios capitalize on recent entertainment trends. In addition, artists using MotionBuilder 2012 alongside Autodesk® Maya® 2012 software or Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2012 software will benefit from single-step interoperability workflows and more consistent user interfaces that help increase productivity.