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3ds Max Entertainment Suite Premium

By: Autodesk

Current Promotions

20% off Autodesk Suite Upgrades!

Save up to 20% on all upgrade paths

Save 15% when you upgrade an older version to 2014

Save 20% when you upgrade to a Creation Suite

Financing available: 2.5% for 24 months and 3.5% for 36 months

Offer expires July 25th, 2013

Description

3ds Max Entertainment Creation Suite Premium includes Autodesk 3ds Max, Softimage, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, and Sketchbook Designer. The suite allows you to build a modern animation pipeline with a cost-effective solution that enables you to increase creativity and efficiency. Purchase a suite and save 42% on the cost of buying the software separately.

Explore creative ideas, meet challenging production demands, and exceed audience expectations with:

Powerful 3D modeling, animation, effects, rendering, and compositing tools
Intuitive, organic modeling, texturing, and painting software
Real-time character animation and motion editing software

Transfer assets quickly, collaborate more efficiently, and increase animation pipeline effectiveness. Autodesk® FBX® data interchange technology enables the exchange of rich animation or 3D scene data between Autodesk products in the suites.

Includes everything in the Standard edition, plus:

Intuitive, node-based approach for creating sophisticated effects
High-quality facial animation with automatic lip-syncing at rapid speeds

3ds Max Entertainment Creation Suite Premium includes the following

Autodesk 3ds Max

A comprehensive, turnkey 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing solution
Flexible creative tools and extensive polygon modeling capabilities
Efficient character animation software with an integrated Biped toolset
Broad range of tightly integrated rendering capabilities

Autodesk Softimage

High-performance 3D character animation and visual effects application
Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) visual tool for creating sophisticated effects and advanced character rigs
Autodesk® Face Robot® toolset for quick and easy rigging and animation of facial setups and automated lip-synching
An ideal companion to Maya—Export ICE effects and fully solved Face Robot heads to Maya for greater flexibility

Autodesk Mudbox

A premier digital sculpting and 3D painting software
Supports the creation of highly detailed 3D characters and environments
Highly intuitive organic modeling and painting tools
Easy integration into existing production pipelines
Support for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems

Autodesk MotionBuilder

Real-time character animation software, renowned for its retargeting and motion capture data editing capabilities
Enables animators to take on demanding, high-volume projects
An ideal solution for virtual cinematography, pre-visualization, performance animation, and real-time character simulations
Interoperable with Maya and 3ds Max

Autodesk SketchBook Designer

Quickly expressing concept ideas
Creating professional-quality design illustrations
Sketching, marking up, and annotating directly on top of AutoCAD content
Manipulating and compositing images to quickly create variations when ideating, or live iteration during concept reviews

Specifications & Licensing

System Requirements

Hardware and Operating system requirements vary between each title found in the suite. For more details please visit each of the products pages on our site.

For more detailed Information about each product included in the suite please visit the following RFX sites.

3ds Max 2013

Motion Builder 2013

Mudbox 2013

Licensing

Standalone and Network Licenses are available.

Standalone licenses can be transfered from computer to computer via online license transfer utility. The license transfer utility requires active subscription in order to function.

Network licenses require the use of a dedicated license server running LMtools. LMTools is available for Windows, OSX & Linux platforms. Network licenses can be checked out off the network for a user specified amount of time. The License checkout utility requires active subscription in order to function.

Network licneses can not be split between workstations. For example, with (1) network seat of the Entertainment suite a user can run 3ds Max, Mudbox, Motion Builder and Softimage all at the same time. However, the user cannot run 3ds Max on one computer and run Motion Builder, MudBox or Softimage on another computer at the same time.

Additional Info

Upgrades / Support

Autodesk offers the following Upgrades and Support options:

Subscription

Software upgrades
Exclusive updates
Access to training and learning materials
Entitlement to use in previous versions
Home-Use licensing
Enhanced license management tools

Subscription / Gold Support

Includes all of the Subscription benefits above, plus
Unlimited Phone and Web Support
Access to SDK and API Support
Defect Tracking

Upgrades

Upgrade from Previous versions to Current
Upgrade from Educational to Commercial licenses
Upgrade from Standalone to Network Licenses
Upgrade from 3ds Max Entertainment Suite

Support

RFX is available for all your support needs.

Autodesk provides initial installation support upon purchase
Unlimited Phone and Web Support available with Subscription / Gold Support (see above)

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