Academia

With the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite for Education 2012, artists can take on a wider range of projects, achieve faster results and explore new creative avenues at a significant cost saving.

• Comprehensive 3D toolsets—Choose either Autodesk Maya or Autodesk 3ds Max, and access a production-proven package for 3D modelling, animation, effects, rendering and composting.
• New creative possibilities—Use the intuitive Interactive Creation Environment (ICE) within Autodesk Softimage to add compelling effects to your Maya or 3ds Max scene, and create high-quality facial animation quickly with the Autodesk® Face Robot® toolset.
• Intuitive digital sculpting and painting—Create highly detailed organic models easily, using the intuitive sculpting, texturing and painting toolsets of Autodesk Mudbox.
• Powerful real-time animation—Increase overall animation output and take on previsualisation and virtual movie-making projects, with the real-time engine and advanced 3D character animation capabilities of Autodesk MotionBuilder.
• High-quality baking—Create global illumination for next-generation games easily and then bake into texture maps, vertex maps or point clouds with the Turtle for Autodesk Maya 2012 plug-in.
• Single-step interoperability—Maximise creative potential and optimise productivity with new single-step interoperability workflows and more consistent user interfaces in these 2012 releases.

Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite for Education 2012 Includes:

• Autodesk® 3ds Max® 
• Autodesk® Maya® 
  
• Autodesk® Softimage® 
  
• Autodesk® MotionBuilder®
  
• Autodesk® Mudbox™