In this session, you'll see how you can maximize innovative VRED, Alias, and Shotgun workflows and tools for your industrial design processes and workflows. Realize the power of the connected solution and see how the software can help you streamline workflows and improve efficiencies. Understand how you can take best practices from automotive design and apply them to the industrial design process.

Production in the cloud continues to be a growing trend in the media and entertainment industry. Accelerated by the pandemic and ever-growing demand for content, the need for cloud-connected workflows to deliver more, faster has never been greater. As a result, studios are seeking modern solutions to improve pipeline scalability, collaboration, and data management. In this panel, representatives from Autodesk Media and Entertainment product, strategy, and sales, will join our customers to discuss how studios are investing in existing desktop and cloud products to help them achieve desired outcomes today, and how the media and entertainment industry cloud-based software Autodesk Flow will add new value to our customers' digital transformation journey by connecting workflows, data, and teams across the entire production lifecycle—from initial concept to final delivery.

If you're spending hours bringing your CAD data into VRED software, always applying the same materials, computing light maps, and making it over and over again through the product design cycle, this class is for you. Come and discover how an automated workflow—using VRED and orchestrated by ShotGrid—can save you enormous amounts of time converting, preparing, and updating Alias data (or any other CAD data), and turning it automatically into a ready-to-use aggregated visualization data set, freeing up time for 3D artists to focus on high-value tasks.

Learn about all the possibilities that Shotgun software can unlock within the design studio workflow. In this session, we will dive into deeper technical applications of Shotgun, and how to configure Shotgun Toolkit to automate routine tasks and customize data hand-offs.

Creating movies involves a lot of work, including delivering productions with increasingly impressive special effects and realistic computer-generated scenes, all while meeting tight deadlines and compressed budgets. Collaboration and efficiency are essential as complexity increases. This talk will use real-life examples from the film and games industry to show how open technologies can help clients improving collaboration and efficiency while providing strategic benefits for enterprises to contributing to these open technologies.

The digital creation process has made physical models rare. Today, iterative work around form finding, feature line definition, or design definition convergence has to happen digitally on 2D screens. Imagine if you could connect virtual reality (VR) full-scale visualization in VRED software with 3D modeling workflows in Alias software through custom tools that allow designers to sketch tape lines in VR, giving instant feedback to the 3D modeler in Alias—and use ShotGrid software to capture the sketched tape lines to feed downstream digital-modeling activities. Discover how Autodesk Consulting can help you improve collaborative workflows in your studio, going beyond out-of-the-box product capabilities.

To manage the ever-increasing complexity and collaboration in the creation of physical assets for LAIKA's hybrid stop-motion/CG features, a Shotgun-based integrated browser workflow was developed that enables automated resource leveling and scheduling in a centralized system accessible to the entire studio. Highlights include a new custom charting application that integrates with the existing Shotgun infrastructure, as well as the use of Consilium Technology (recently acquired by Autodesk), a new, machine-learning-based, automated resource-leveling system that effectively balances and assigns resources. Together, they turn a time-consuming and error-prone manual leveling process into a fast and automated procedure that generates an accurate, adjustable, easy-to-communicate schedule.

Learn about what’s driving Autodesk’s product and platform innovation, and how we’re moving our technology to be ever more cloud-centric. Senior Vice President Chris Bradshaw will kick things off and will be joined by Autodesk product experts, Stephen Hooper and Sarah Hodges, representing manufacturing and AEC. This is your chance to get a firsthand look at what’s new in Fusion 360, BIM 360, Shotgun and Forge.

Let’s take a journey through the growing digital space and the merging of the many industries we once thought were islands all to themselves, looking at manufacturing, product design, e-commerce, construction, TV, film, XR, and the many pieces in between. In order to stay competitive, many of today’s largest organizations are blurring the lines between departments and speeding up the velocity behind the teams that take concept to reality. This class will look at the realities behind today’s market and focus on the groundwork that needs to be laid when scaling a business that leans on a 2D/3D digital environment. Whether you’re working with 3D models in a film, 3D mockups in a manufacturing workflow, 2D concept art in an architectural pipeline, or the product imagery at a furniture house, process and organization can be the key to success. We will dive into a few of the software setups alongside Autodesk’s Shotgun that can help companies succeed.

Pipelines lie at the heart of all studio workflows, connecting the many moving pieces in a visual effects/animation project. New features in Unreal Engine enable deeper and richer pipeline development capabilities, making it easier than ever to integrate with other production tools like Maya software and Shotgun to provide a seamless artist workflow. Connecting Maya software’s powerful 3D asset-creation capabilities with Unreal Engine’s advanced real-time rendering enables artists to get instant feedback, leading to faster work and better results, all tracked in Shotgun. This session will dive into Unreal Engine’s Python API (application programming interface) and show how to streamline artists' day-to-day work through automation and pipeline intelligence, capitalizing on key technologies like Filmbox and Universal Screen Description for interoperability.

In the last five years Iloura has grown from a single facility employing 30 artists to two facilities that peak at 240 artists.  Over the course of this journey our use of Shotgun has evolved and changed from a basic production management tool to something that is integral to our tech and production pipes and something that provides integrated facility management systems across HR, Operations, Recruiting, Sales, VFX Producing and Finance.  This presentation details the evolution of our use of Shotgun and how Shotgun has been integral to Iloura’s success at all stages of our growth path

This class will show how an innovative customer is looking at the problem of process and data management, and how Shotgun software can help solve these issues. Attendees will learn from a real case study of how an automotive design studio, first in the world to do so, chose Shotgun as the platform to manage its assets and its review-and-approval process. We’ll also discuss how the firm approached the implementation process in terms of organic adoption of the tool through a clear demonstration of value proposition, and learn about key challenges the company experienced during this process. Finally, we’ll talk about some of the benefits that key stakeholders are seeing, and where they see Shotgun contributing more in future.

This session focuses on the tools and workflows used by one of Australia's leading post-production houses, Cutting Edge. Learn how Cutting Edge leverages most of the Autodesk Media & Entertainment portfolio to create world class work efficiently, from occasional 2D animation jobs and storyboarding tasks, Sketchbook Pro enables an incredibly fast way of communicating ideas with sketching and paint tools. A suite of Autodesk content creation tools like Maya, Mudbox and Motion Builder allow our artists to realise the highest quality VFX work, to finishing to the highest standard in Autodesk Flame. Autodesk Shotgun is utilised to increase collaboration and efficiency and connect the team. Hear how new technology and forms of storytelling such as VR, AR and interactive engines will change the future of making entertainment.

Learn how Autodesk Shotgun can help you supercharge your pipeline with tools for production management, review and asset management. Shotgun will improve communication and collaboration to assist in managing increasingly complex projects - even when production resources are remote. Shotgun integrates directly with the tools you are using today and is scalable from small to large studios. See why Shotgun will be a key tool in the future of making content

Let's take a look at how architectural visualization meets VFX with 3ds Max, MotionBuilder and Shotgun. We used Shotgun to help our team collaborate during the crazy-short production timelines, with 3ds Max and Motion Builder to integrate more storytelling and bring our stories to life via motion capture. …Or simply put, rendering 5760 8K frames of NYC city. Yes, the entire city! At Neoscape we have been creating future landscapes for over 24 years, every time striving for higher quality and higher standards. Software comes and goes, it evolves. However, we have always relied on 3ds Max as our workhorse. Every year we think we have achieved the impossible, yet every year we are asked for more and more. In this presentation we will share some of Neoscape’s latest endeavors to date, including those that were technically challenging as well as creative.

See how Shotgun is providing a visual project management solution to the automotive design studios, allowing our customers to manage their everyday design data, foster open communication with their teams, and leverage workflow efficiencies and automation to improve the overall design process.

Learn how shotgun is a social design tool for the studio. How do we design for the future with tools of the future?

Join us to get a glimpse of our latest technical preview and learn about how Autodesk envisions Shotgun in the Design Studio.

LAIKA is a stop-motion feature animation studio in Portland, Oregon. Autodesk’s Shotgun project management software has been used to organize and automate aspects of the production of all its feature films over the past 10 years, from Coraline to the forthcoming Missing Link. In this talk, we will present how LAIKA tackles the design and manufacturing of the assets that show up on the big screen, how we use Shotgun software to track our production data (from scheduling to final delivery and beyond), and how we have built an efficient production pipeline using Shotgun as a platform. LAIKA exists at an interesting junction between visual effects and manufacturing, producing physical assets for a digital final product. As we go through our workflows, we will also reflect on the commonalities we have seen in how to create both physical and digital assets efficiently.

Learn about ShotGrid software’s powerful capabilities, including digital asset management features that integrate with Alias software and VRED software to connect digital workflows around the world. Learn how to increase the efficiency of collaboration for creatives by ensuring the availability of multiple versions of digital data, all in the same place, for all studio members. Using ShotGrid helps you save time, creating more opportunities to focus on quality of execution, and enabling designers and creatives to focus more on ideation and innovation. Come and see how ShotGrid can help with the digital transformation in your studio.

This class will take a close look at how the immersive planetarium show Signs of Life was produced. We'll discuss how art and science are merged to create extraordinary content through a public private partnership. You'll learn how it was possible through the building of a new animation production studio inside the existing science institution, Griffith Observatory. We'll look at how a producer works from concept to completion, from development to final delivery and everything in-between. The class will show how Autodesk's Shotgun software was implemented at the center of the production studio pipeline and how that enabled the team to create, track, review and render the show.