This class will walk you through the early steps of learning 3ds Max software from the ground up. We will explore the user interface and the workflows that best suit new users. We will address importing and file linking from external source files, cameras lighting, and rendering techniques aimed at the CAD and Rivet software users.

With architects, designers, and engineers using 3ds Max software every day to complete their visualization projects, 3ds Max 2016 software offers the most comprehensive toolset to date. In this session we will explore both new and existing features in order to tell a compelling visualization story with the emphasis being on how to gain accessibility and ease of use without ever compromising quality. First we will look at some of the new Inventor-software-to-3ds-Max-software workflows used to quickly and efficiently create stunning imagery and animations of your models. Next we will look at various easy-to-use techniques for adding realism and a lived-in feel to your Revit software interior visualization projects. Lastly we will explore methods of adding procedural content as well as animated components to your scenes in order to bring your designs to life. Creating a pretty picture just got a whole lot more fun! Join me at Autodesk University and see what all the fuss is about. #3dsMax2016

At this lecture discover the joy of sketching and painting on your iPad, using the newly redesigned SketchBook app. Reconnect with your inner artist. This class is intended for the true beginner. A range of tools, concepts and ideas will be explored.

In this hands-on lab, you learn to use the tools and capabilities of the new Populate feature in 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design. Together, we will put in walk flows and idle areas, adjust flow points and segments, create ramps, and dial in densities, distributions, and direction.

3ds Max software is a mature 3D digital content creation package widely used in the video game industry, at numerous television and visual effects studios, and as a standard in design and architectural visualization. With the recent addition of the Arnold renderer, creating stunning imagery and video has never been more accessible. Arnold now brings the visual quality of the Hollywood blockbuster movie back home to 3ds Max. In this session, we’ll explore techniques and workflows for bringing your Revit projects to life. First, we will see how to go from Revit software to Arnold in just a few minutes. Next, we’ll use tools such as Civil View, Populate, and Pflow to help tell a story. Then we’ll take a look at the brand-new Fluid system in 3ds Max that can create stunning water features in no time. And lastly, we’ll dive into some compositing workflows using Arnold AOVs. You might also have a chance to see what's coming next! Take your visualization game to the next level with Arnold and 3ds Max. Brute force for all!

In this hands-on lab we will maximize on several of 3ds Max Design software's powerful modeling tools to help you take your architecture, engineering, and construction content to the next level. We will explore various different workflows that will enable you to increase the quality and detail of your Revit software models and create all new models directly from within 3ds Max Design software.

3ds Max software is a mature 3D digital content creation package, widely used in the video game industry and by numerous television and visual effects studios. And it is a standard in design and architectural visualization. With the recent addition and democratization of the Arnold renderer, creating stunning imagery and video has never been more accessible. Arnold now brings the visual quality of Hollywood blockbuster movies back home to 3ds Max. In this session, you’ll learn how to import any CAD models in 3ds Max. Then, we’ll show how to create and edit shaders and build realistic lighting setup in an interactive environment. Next, we’ll see how to capitalize on out-of-the-box features to bring your designs to life, such as 3ds Max Fluids to simulate physically accurate liquids and nCloth to generate realistic fabric type objects. Last, we’ll look at flexible techniques for final project delivery. You might also have a chance to see what's coming next! Take your viz game to the next level with Arnold and 3ds Max. Brute force for all!

3ds Max software is a mature, 3D digital content-creation package. It is widely used in the video game industry by numerous TV and VFX studios, and it’s a standard in design and architectural visualization. It’s the perfect outlet to let you explore and express your creativity and design intent. In this session, we’ll first explore best practices for importing design data into 3ds Max. Next, we’ll take a look at workflows for embellishing, adding details, and bringing your designs to life. Finally, we’ll use the flexibility of 3ds Max software’s powerful artist tools to achieve a look and feel that is truly your own. Take the lead, convey your vision, and tell your story with 3ds Max!

Now that computers can see and understand the world around them through artificial intelligence (AI), how can they be used to help the architecture, engineering, and construction industry? In a 2016 ENR photo competition, an AI agent reviewed photo submissions to look for potential job-site safety risks. The AI processed all 1,080 images in less than 5 minutes, while a team of human experts took more than 5 hours to do a similar review. Skanska is committed to using these same technologies to reduce job-site risk. In this session, Ryan Salvas of Skanska will review how to expand the types of risk indicators seen by the AI through BIM 360 Field software, a software platform used for the collection of site imagery. The presenters will highlight pilot projects where the technology is being expanded to handle additional types of visual information, including videos with voice narration and real-time image streams from job-site cameras, all in the name of protecting our most valuable asset-our people.

With the introduction of enterprise cloud work sharing in InfraWorks 2019 software, we will explore how BIM 360 software is changing the way engineering teams are collaborating on infrastructure projects. This session will explore workflows and tools that enable engineering teams to design, share, and collaborate. We'll take a closer look at the InfraWorks bridge design workflows, how to integrate applications that are not cloud ready, and how to understand the added value of cloud technologies.

In today's competitive visualization marketplace, it can be difficult to set your work apart. Is having a unique look enough to succeed? Perhaps the answer can be found in the marriage between good creative and evolving technology. Re-purposing visualization assets to the latest tools isn't a no-brainer; it requires creativity and finesse to be successful. Using recent commercial examples, Transparent House's director of production will show the real role that 3D visualization plays in a comprehensive and successful R/E or product marketing campaign, and how a thoughtful technology rollout can help push your studio to the next level and make you look like a rock star to your clients. From recent and relevant case studies-and real results data-you will learn how an effective visualization campaign is conceived during the creative process, and then how it evolves as it deploys successfully across the media spectrum-from concept, to renderings, to motion assets, to interactive.

In this class you will gain an understanding of a commercial production that uses only computer graphics. This is a 2-part series that will cover the entire process of creating a commercial spec spot for the HBO show Boardwalk Empire. In part 1 you'll see the project kick off from the storyboards phase and proceed through rough animation and visual effects. We will cover some topics that include modeling, texturing, and dynamics. These classes will utilize an array of tools, including 3ds Max software and Chaos Group's V-Ray rendering engine, to bring this piece to life.

Importing a Revit model and all of its BIM (Building Information Modeling) data into Unity can be a difficult and time-consuming process, possibly requiring multiple plug-ins. This session will explore optimum workflows to connect, organize, and optimize Revit projects using a single platform. The result will empower project teams to work toward proactively building interactive architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) models with smooth BIM data imports, and quickly assemble virtual reality (VR) visualization experiences. When imported, some of the Revit data (like BIM and materials) could be lost, creating additional work. We’ll talk about streamlined workflows that let Revit data flow smoothly into Unity via BIM 360 software, without the use of plug-ins, in an easy and efficient fashion. This collaboration will make it much easier for AEC developers to quickly assemble VR visualization experiences, such as immersive and interactive walk-throughs and lifelike models, at any stage of a project.

In this session IKEA Communications AB in Sweden will present the challenge of a retailer taking on photographic renderings of indoor homes for catalog and web. We will share the progress, starting from the first stumbling steps of product image creation to the large volumes of full room sets that are used alongside traditionally created studio photos for the catalog and on the web. During the session we will show the model/material and texture standard, and we'll discuss how it's used. We will also cover internal tools we have built with help from Autodesk Consulting. Finally, we will go over lessons learned and things we would like to solve in better ways.

With the advent of a more distributed workforce, a digital-first system of design and record has become more important, if not required. Communications and work between office and the field has also demonstrated a higher demand for a GIS + BIM solution. One way to ensure that all stakeholders are kept up-to-date is to maintain a digital twin of a project. There are many ways to acquire reality capture data, but one of the more common ways is by using a drone. The challenge is creating a distributed way of sharing the status of the project with the design. In this demo, we will walk through how to use 3D design files from Revit in Esri's ArcGIS Online so that they can be used in conjunction with reality data to model the as-built conditions of the project. Once the reality data has been processed, the data can be published straight to BIM 360 for import into Civil 3D or Navisworks for clash detection and other advanced workflows.

3ds Max Design software is a great tool for generating high quality visuals, but today's audience expects more. This class introduces the art of storytelling as a means to create compelling experiences that communicate (and sell) design intent and meaning. In our increasingly competitive and visually-oriented society, sophisticated presentations are more important than ever before. Learn how to reconcile the persuasive goals of a presentation with the indulgent demands of the modern audience. Starting with an understanding of the language and repertoire of storytelling techniques, this class guides you through a basic knowledge of rendering and animation features to more complex workflows with characters and real-time ready assets within a narrative framework. Discover the storytelling secrets of Hollywood and Madison Avenue to sell your designs using 3ds Max Design.

How do we define our roles as visualization artists in the process of creating high-end quality marketing images? Who controls the image? How do you create a productive and inspired process when different design disciplines want to push their own ideas? It's the architect's building, the developer's money, the interior designer's space, the graphic designer's brand-and they all want to push that upon the visualizer's image. How do we as an industry keep control of our work while still working with and within the bounds of the other disciplines involved, while keeping everyone happy with the process and the outcome?

We will cover the various techniques used in the film and television industry when dealing with sensitive sites or locations. This class will also address the use of ReCap Pro software for reality capture using point clouds with photogeometry and exporting the appropriate file format when importing into Revit software to assist in the manipulation of the site design (set design). We’ll examine use of storyboard techniques translated by production designers to create construction documents and renderings for both site location and set designs (exterior and interior) with Revit and 3ds Max software. We’ll also learn how cloud collaboration improves the workflow between various disciplines within the art department and production show runners for faster turnaround using virtual reality walk-throughs. We’ll also examine immersive design with the use of augmented reality and mixed reality to determine what is actually constructed, what is virtually constructed, and what is sent out for fabrication when constructing film sets.

This round table discussion will centre on the strategic deployment of technology within Arch Viz commercial projects and studios. James Orchard and Sam Slicer from FloodSlicer  will review the creative decision making process that lies behind the creation of successful high end projects,  referencing FloodSlicer projects that demonstrate high levels of technical prowess – in particular animations. The Arch Viz environments of the round table audience will be included and considered in discussions.

Design visualization brings unique challenges from various model sources. Using tools like the Max Creation Graph (MCG) editor enables users to create new tools and techniques to tackle those challenges. Do you get geometry from sources that are incomplete or overly complex? Have you ever wanted to replace them, but need to be able to customize the results? MCG enables you create just those types of tools for your design visualization toolkit. In this session, we will examine how to use MCG to expand your toolkit, and how to approach the idea of tool creation. This session features 3ds Max. AIA Approved