In this class the attendees will see the workflow used for taking results from Autodesk, Inc.'s, simulation products to its Media & Entertainment products (Showcase software, 3ds Max software, and VRED software) for high-end visualization, rendering, and video production.

Hosted by Bluegfx - Drop in to one of these informal sessions to discuss all things Media and Entertainment. Whether it’s to chat about Render pipeline, plugins, hardware, infrastructure, storage or just to say hi, one of the team will be on hand to chat.

This past year has been one of rapid learning and adaptation. Demand for content is booming, but production studios of all kinds are struggling to deliver under conditions that none of us have seen before. Today, the media & entertainment industry understands the need to continuously evolve, decrease inefficiencies, reduce digital waste, and create better content with the right allocation of resources. Join Autodesk leaders and customers to learn how our platform can connect processes, automate workflows, and unlock insights, enabling flexible, scalable connections between teams, studios, and ecosystems.

One of the main development efforts regarding Autodesk CFD software has been to reduce time that users spend on the tasks of altering geometry and meshing. There have been several new major features and tools added to the product as part of this focus. The aim of this class is to inform and teach about how to gain productivity and greatly reduce your model-preparation time using these new tools. This class will include instructional demonstrations on how to use the new Surface Wrap tools, Model Assessment Toolkit, and SimStudio Tools for Autodesk CFD software. We will show a live demonstration of these tools in action. There will also be some demonstration of further enhancements for geometry and meshing available in the Autodesk CFD 2017 Beta software scheduled to be available at the time of Autodesk University 2015.

Creating photorealistic digital assets is key to increasing the realism of today's games and movies today. Could it also be important for decors, natural scenes, samples, faces, bodies, or props? There is a fast-growing demand to bring the as-built or as-existing reality into the production pipeline. Some advanced production houses have embraced reality capture technologies, and they already use photos, videos, or lasers to capture reality. The Autodesk Reality Capture Group has developed tools that make these technologies easier to use. Come and discuss your needs for reality capture, and see how you can benefit by using these new tools to create your own digital assets for use in your own production environment.

Autodesk products, in particular the entertainment creation suites, offer an opportunity to reinvent learning in language arts, social studies, and other core academic classes. By using a game or movie development approach to core subject learning, you can motivate your students to learn with the use of tools such as Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk Maya®, and other software products. The variety of Autodesk products, combined with the general principles that have already seen amazing classroom success, could reignite a passion for learning in so many students and schools. You can be part of the solution, as a mentor or teacher or business.

Today, the way people make things, the way people do the business, and the way people enjoy the entertainment are changing. In this session, we will talk about how the 'Future of Making Things' is impacting the Media & Entertainment Industry. How the demand has changed? How the products have changed? As the result, we see a lot of changes and challenges in the production method. We will talk about the changes we see in the industry and how to react to those changes.

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.

This class will explore how Autodesk is leveraging Amazon Web Services to power A360, product trials and more. In addition to showing how Autodesk uses AWS, we will explore how Amazon Web Services can enhance design, engineering, and media and entertainment workflows for any size company. This class will provide an overview of the concepts and best practices for moving workloads to the cloud and running them at scale in a secure, scalable and cost efficient manner.

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.

Enjoy a lively discussion about digital transformation, cloud-based platforms, and sustainability—sponsored by Redshift, a publication from Autodesk dedicated to inspiring design, engineering, construction, and manufacturing leaders. Executives from Autodesk partners and suppliers across the AEC, manufacturing, and media & entertainment industries will debate what digital transformation means for today’s workforce; how platform environments can deliver greater value from people, processes, and technology; and why a sustainable approach is key to business success and creating a better world.

Today, there’s a boom in content as audiences consume media and entertainment in new ways at home, on mobile, and in AR and VR. Creators and producers are working to deliver more of what people want but are struggling because traditional production processes can’t scale. Production needs to become more collaborative, innovative, and open. Join Autodesk leaders and customers to learn how our latest technology helps coordinate and customize processes and forge scalable connections between teams, studios, and ecosystems. By moving production to the cloud, we empower innovators to craft more meaningful stories and bolder visions.

At Autodesk Labs, we preview exciting future technologies for architecture, engineering, and construction; manufacturing; media and entertainment; and other industries. The technology we work with is too new to be a product, but it can be used to gather valuable customer feedback for evolving projects into possible future products. In this class, we will show some of the latest and greatest technologies on Autodesk Labs, explain how Autodesk provides these free technology previews to customers, and show you how you can get the very latest in technology and shape the future of our products and services. This is your opportunity to see where Autodesk might be going with new technologies.

Creating Contents using Autodesk Media and Entertainment Collection for ECommerce Sector, to Bring in Efficiencies and setting up an Optimized pipeline.

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.

This will be the first opportunity to see the all new Autodesk Stingray technology. Learn why this technology will change the way content is created and consumed across all industries Autodesk serves, from media & entertainment to architecture, engineering, construction and manufacturing. See how Stingray integrates tightly with other Autodesk tools to offer an incredibly efficient, data-driven, iterative process to create next generation content. See first-hand how Project Expo leverages Stingray technology to deliver a powerful new tool to visualise your creative vision. Learn why Autodesk Stingray technology will be a key technology in the future of making content.