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Virtual 2021
How customers are transforming their workflows in AEC and Film & Television

Customers in the AEC and Film & Television industries are transforming traditional workflows to accelerate the production of linear and non-linear, interactive content. From using virtual production technology on The Mandalorian, to building a digital twin for Wellington City for public engagement, we’ll explore how real-time technology opens the door to a new world of creative opportunities. This session will dive into how Datasmith is connecting the dots with Autodesk solutions like Forge, Revit, 3ds Max, Navisworks, and Maya. You’ll find out how Twinmotion and Unreal Engine are used to collaborate and engage with stakeholders and peers using Pixel Streaming and other methods. It isn’t all about AEC, as the session will also cover how real-time technology is changing the way films and TV shows are made. And while there won’t be enough time to get into all of the technical details, we’ll point you to free resources to learn how to achieve the same results.

New Orleans 2022
Real-Time Workflows for Film and TV with Moxion
In this session, we'll explore how Moxion—the powerful, all-in-one secure advanced dailies and content review platform—enabled major film and TV studios and production companies to streamline their production workflows.
Panel / Virtual 2021
Driving open standards in Film and TV production

Open source projects play a critical role in the creation of Film and TV content. In this session, we’ll dive into the work behind OpenColorIO v2, MaterialX, and other key open source initiatives, including collaboration with tech partners and creative studios like Netflix, Lucasfilm, and Animal Logic.

New Orleans 2022
Driving Open Standards in Film and TV Production
Open-source projects play a critical role in the creation of film and TV content. In this session, we'll dive into the work behind OpenColorIO v2, MaterialX, and other key open-source initiatives, including collaboration with tech partners and creative studios.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
The ABC'S of USD
It's 2023 and you've been wondering "WTF is USD?” You're not alone! Software never stops evolving, and it is easy to feel left behind when new tech enters the scene. Funny enough, that is exactly what USD is aiming to address. USD stands for Universal Scene Description, and it is an open-source initiative, meaning it is being built in a public facing manner, without any single company claiming ownership of its development. Rather, multiple companies share the same vision – a world where sharing production assets among programs is consistent, reliable and easy. In this class you will learn USD's origin, where its currently at in the Media & Entertainment Industry, where it is headed, and how these techniques and technologies add benefit to any industry pipeline.
Keynote / Las Vegas 2023
Media & Entertainment Industry Forum

Exciting possibilities lie ahead in media and entertainment. Unprecedented demand for high production value content is ushering in a new era of technology innovation where open standards, cloud-based workflows, and platform-based production pipelines are the norm. Find out more about Autodesk's Design & Make Platform and the newly announced capabilities on Flow.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Advancing Boolean Workflows for Media and Entertainment Projects
Booleans are a foundational part of content creation, yet it was frowned upon to use traditional polygon booleans in media and entertainment projects. To solve this problem, Autodesk rebuilt their booleans from the ground up within 3ds Max software, creating a new, powerful, and trusted solution in the Boolean Modifier that unlocks exciting new workflows and capabilities. In this session, you'll learn about how and why this new system was created for 3ds Max, which benefits it provides, and how you can use it to its maximum potential in your own work to create amazing content for film and TV, games, XR, or 3D printing projects.
3p
52p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Procedural Modeling for Architecture with Maya and Bifrost
With the compound collection "Procedural Polygon Generator 2.0" for Bifrost, users can autogenerate buildings and all kinds of architectural detail. The goal is to build a construction history that works on various polygon inputs, and creates complex buildings without any further user input. This solution is used in the video-game industry and the film/TV industry for automated generation of environments, as well as for concept design and visualization in architecture.
18p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Lights, Cameras, Action: Professional Editing and Effects for Better Storytelling
Take advantage of the tools and techniques that the pros use on blockbuster films and television commercials to create videos and presentations that will blow your audiences away. If you currently edit video or produce renders for video, you need to attend this class. You' will see how paring Autodesk® Smoke® software for editing and effects with animation products, such as Autodesk® 3ds Max® software, enables a powerful pro video workflow for integrating high-definition video, 3D renders, and 3D data to produce results that surpass the look of standard "corporate video." Replace cumbersome workflows that require round-tripping between editing, 3D, and effects applications with the power of Autodesk products' integrated video, special effects, and 3D pipeline to deliver professional video results.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
The future of digital content creation
Digital media is transforming film, TV and all forms of content creation. New genres are leveraging the explosion in technology as interactive devices take rich content to homes and "on the go". Technicolor is uniquely positioned to help world major studios and publishers and creative gurus in exploring and inventing the 'never before'! The keynote will present cutting edge examples and demonstrate what virtual production and the hybrid workplace have changed in the content production paradigm.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2020
Workflows for Virtual Production with Remote Teams
How can film and TV production move forward in the age of social distancing? This talk will explore a case study of a workflow under development by a broad team of studio production executives and technology partners. We will describe new capabilities in virtual production tools and system architectures to perform as much work as possible remotely using game engines, cloud services, virtualization, live LED wall projections, live motion-capture sessions, large-scale volumetric location scanning, and workgroup platforms.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2019
Reality to 3D: Managing and Scaling the Workflows Behind the 3D That Shapes Our World
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.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2019
Design, Camera, ACTION: Set Design with Point Clouds, Revit, and 3ds Max for Films
We will cover the various techniques used in the film and television industry when dealing with sensitive sites or locations. This class will also address the use of ReCap Pro software for reality capture using point clouds with photogeometry and exporting the appropriate file format when importing into Revit software to assist in the manipulation of the site design (set design). We’ll examine use of storyboard techniques translated by production designers to create construction documents and renderings for both site location and set designs (exterior and interior) with Revit and 3ds Max software. We’ll also learn how cloud collaboration improves the workflow between various disciplines within the art department and production show runners for faster turnaround using virtual reality walk-throughs. We’ll also examine immersive design with the use of augmented reality and mixed reality to determine what is actually constructed, what is virtually constructed, and what is sent out for fabrication when constructing film sets.
Roundtable / Las Vegas 2015
The Future of 3ds Max—A Roundtable Discussion
From its humble beginnings 25 years ago, 3ds Max software has emerged to be the most used software for the creation of feature films and episodic television shows, from award-winning AAA to indie games and striking, awe-inspiring design visualizations. As your needs of those industries continue to evolve and blur, 3ds Max software continues to develop with you. In this brief roundtable discussion, the 3ds Max Development Team will share a bit of its history, look at the current state of 3ds Max software, and take a glimpse into its future. Your input and feedback will enrich the conversation and drive the discussion.
Roundtable / Las Vegas 2016
The Past, Present, and Future of 3ds Max
From its humble beginnings more than 25 years ago, 3ds Max software has emerged as extraordinarily popular software for the creation of feature films and episodic television shows—from award-winning AAA to indie games and striking, awe-inspiring design visualizations. As your needs of those industries continue to evolve and blur, 3ds Max software continues to develop with you. In this brief, roundtable discussion, the 3ds Max Development Team will share a bit of its history, look at the current state of 3ds Max software, and take a glimpse into its future. Your input and feedback will enrich the conversation and drive the discussion. This session features 3ds Max.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2015
VFX Workflows for the Visualization Artist
It’s hard to escape the influence of visual effects in today’s media, and today’s top visualization shops are blurring the lines between feature film / television work and traditional architectural visualization (arch viz) work. Considering the common toolset used in both fields, it can be advantageous for visualization artists working in the architecture, engineering, and construction market to employ workflows developed in the entertainment field—not only from an efficiency standpoint, but also potentially from an aesthetic standpoint. Employing some of the media and entertainment approaches can inject an otherwise unremarkable arch viz animation with more visual interest, leading to investor or sales videos that are more compelling. In this class we will examine some production-tested approaches using both old and new tools in 3ds Max software to create things like large crowds of people and animated foliage, as well as workflows used for working with large scene files.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Magic of Multilocation High-Speed Data Transfers Using FastX Plus Flow Production Tracking
We believe every content creation organization (CG-VFX) using Flow Production Tracking software in some way faces challenges when transferring data between its offices or with its outsourced vendors and clients. To address these challenges, we designed and developed a UDP-based high-speed application in sync with Flow Production Tracking. FastX is highly reliable for all types of data movements—transfers of scans, work files, final output, multisite/remote renders, CG Files, vendor output, files to DI, disaster safe backup, and final output to clients. Most of the transfers mentioned resemble work related to the CG-VFX industry. But FastX was actually designed to address many industries that deal with high-volume data transfers in daily operations.
18p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Fully Integrated Production Workflow for Feature Films Through Autodesk
This case study will provide a complete overview of the motion picture workflow process, using various Autodesk tools to facilitate the creation production from submitted script to final delivery of a motion picture film. Using Twisted Pictures recent feature Trust (2025), we will examine the process of guiding the film from preproduction through production and post production and to the final delivery of all materials to the distributor Paramount Pictures. The emphasis of this study is to consolidate all these aspects into one multitiered data management universe using various Autodesk tool sets, all fully integrated and managed by a streamlined team of department heads.
8p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Crafting Expressive Face Animation in Maya
In this session, we’ll explore the fundamentals of creating expressive facial animation in Maya software, with a strong focus on design and appeal. From understanding key facial shapes to enhancing emotions with nuanced details, we’ll break down essential techniques that bring characters to life. We’ll also discuss how strong posing, clear silhouettes, and exaggeration contribute to readability and charm, ensuring that every expression feels intentional and engaging. This lecture will provide insights to elevate your facial animation with both technical precision and artistic appeal.
32p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
From Screen to Space: Designing Immersive Experiences That Put Visitors First
How do you design for a space, not just a screen? This talk will explore how to think outside of the box (literally) when creating immersive experiences for physical environments. We'll share insights into how our team approaches spatial design—from the earliest concept art to the final install—while always keeping the visitor experience a priority. We’ll cover the importance of prototyping early and often, we’ll look at strategies for working efficiently on small multidisciplinary teams, and we’ll discuss how stepping away from the computer can help creative problem-solving. Whether you're an artist designing with projections, VR/AR/XR, or touchscreens, this session will cover the framework involved in building immersive, accessible, people-first experiences.
28p
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