Autodesk at NAB 2006

Creating the Whole Picture
What a great turn-out at the show! This year, we had over 12 amazing guest speakers in our theater presentations, including: Brickyard VFX, CBS Corporation Boston, Cutting Edge, Industrial Light & Magic, Mokko Studio, The Orphanage, Pixel Blues, R!OT, Sway, and Technicolor. Our speakers talked about a wide range of high-profile viewing on our screens today-from the biggest effects-laced films to highly finished commercials, to leading station idents-War of the Worlds (ILM), King Kong (Weta Digital) Aeon Flux (The Orphanage), Sony (Technicolor), ESPN (Brickyard VFX), Eminem (Pixel Blues) to name a few!

"I love this machine!"
-C.E. Raum, Senior Visual Effects Artist, R!OT, exclaims during his presentation using the Discreet® Smoke® system on Linux®.

We also want to thank all our presenters at our After Hours session: Harald Brendel, Head of Application Engineering DI, ARRI Cine Technik; Louise Ledeen Segment Manager Media Global Marketing, SGI; Carlo Hume, WW Commercialization Manager, Kodak; and Dave Cole, Lead Colorist, Weta Digital.

Learn how clients such as Sony Picture Imageworks, Weta Digital, The Orphanage, and ILM use our products.

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Our training sessions were also a smashing success!
We had over 90 attendees at our Discreet Flame session, and well over 80 for our Discreet Smoke session. This year our guest speakers included: Jake Parker, Senior Inferno Artist, Crash & Sue's; Philippe Soeiro, Autodesk Customer Solutions Manager and Workflow Architect (former Artistic Director, Éclair Laboratoires); Michael Ruzicka, Post Production Manager, CBS Corporation/Boston; and C.E. Raum, Senior Visual Effects Artist at R!OT.

We are planning to organize training sessions again next year, stay tuned for more information as we get closer to NAB 2007!

Latest News for NAB:

Discreet® Inferno®, now on Linux®
After a wildly successful launch in Japan at InterBEE 2005, Inferno is now available to the rest of the world on a high-performance Linux platform.

10-bit RGB on all Systems Products
All Autodesk Systems products are capable of working in high quality 10-bit RGB media, allowing you to produce extremely high-quality video deliverables for commercial and broadcast postproduction.

Autodesk® Toxik™ 2007
Toxik now offers even more efficient collaboration while delivering the creative tools needed to handle the process of procedural feature film visual effects creation. This version of Toxik includes the much anticipated Paint tool for cleaning up and retouching layers and mattes.