In 1994, Tim Nye of Guelph, Ontario became the North American distributor and formed an alliance with Autodesk which resulted in the release in 1996 of Cadsoft Build, the first licensed stand-alone product based on the Autodesk OEM Engine.
Character Studio is a set of tools within Autodesk’s 3DS Max.
This project based studio was the first feature film to use Discreet Logic's (now Autodesk) Flame and Inferno systems, which enjoyed early dominance as high resolution / high performance digital compositing systems.
Meanwhile Nelson, who had been working on and advocating his Xanadu system for over two decades, along with the commercial success of HyperCard, stirred Autodesk to invest in his revolutionary ideas.
It is notable for being one of only five pieces of animation software (the other four being Muvizu, Moviestorm, Xtranormal and Autodesk MotionBuilder) that use a real-time "WYSIWYG" view to let animators see the results of their work immediately, and to play back animations in the viewport.
Echelman’s studio is collaborating with design software company Autodesk, who have developed custom engineering software to make this effort possible, and are sponsoring the sculpture.
By July 2012, the application passed 16 million downloads and was acquired by Autodesk for $60 million.
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After leaving The Sierra Club, Werbach formed Act Now Productions to consult to nonprofits and corporations that wished to green their enterprise, including Autodesk, Procter & Gamble, Cisco Systems, Columbia Records, Frito Lay, General Mills, Sierra Club, and World Wildlife Fund.
As Autodesk's flagship product, by March 1986 AutoCAD had become the most ubiquitous microcomputer design program worldwide, with functions such as "polylines" and "curve fitting".
Autodesk Alias is a division of Autodesk which publishes software used in automotive styling.
Such products include "movie Grade" software, not limited to but including programs, such as Maya, from the Toronto-based animation firm, Aliaswavefront, now owned by Autodesk).
GHN features an online community for networking and discussion of possible solutions, while critical support and software for the platform have been donated by Google, DigitalGlobe, Autodesk, Ashtech, Exelis Visual Information Solutions and ESRI.
RenderMan Artist Tools, also known at R.A.T. is a set of plug-ins and tools produced by Pixar for better integration of Pixar Animation Studio's PhotoRealistic RenderMan and Autodesk's Maya.