LAIKA is a stop-motion feature animation studio in Portland, Oregon. Autodesk’s Shotgun project management software has been used to organize and automate aspects of the production of all its feature films over the past 10 years, from Coraline to the forthcoming Missing Link. In this talk, we will present how LAIKA tackles the design and manufacturing of the assets that show up on the big screen, how we use Shotgun software to track our production data (from scheduling to final delivery and beyond), and how we have built an efficient production pipeline using Shotgun as a platform. LAIKA exists at an interesting junction between visual effects and manufacturing, producing physical assets for a digital final product. As we go through our workflows, we will also reflect on the commonalities we have seen in how to create both physical and digital assets efficiently.

This class will be an overview of how managing production within the Autodesk manufacturing ecosystem lets seamless workflows and real-time insight into production status. We will demonstrate a workflow- starting in design within Autodesk CAD Solutions, moving to programming with Autodesk CAM Solutions, demonstrating production tracking and quality assurance in Fusion 360 Production, and showing how production data can be fed back into design and programming to increase overall production speed and efficiency. These clear communication channels can dramatically reduce the amount of overhead that job shops need to manage by presenting the right information to the right people at the right time. This is the benefit of operating within the Autodesk network.

How can film and TV production move forward in the age of social distancing? This talk will explore a case study of a workflow under development by a broad team of studio production executives and technology partners. We will describe new capabilities in virtual production tools and system architectures to perform as much work as possible remotely using game engines, cloud services, virtualization, live LED wall projections, live motion-capture sessions, large-scale volumetric location scanning, and workgroup platforms.

In this presentation, we will explore the integration capabilities of the Autodesk Flow Production Tracking platform, focusing on how they connect with various tools to enhance productivity and streamline workflows. We’ll start by discussing the ready-to-use integrations available for Flow Production Tracking, including popular tools from Autodesk and third parties. These integrations facilitate smooth data exchange and operational efficiency. Next, we will cover customizing these tools, including an overview of the hook approach, followed by the development of a new app. We’ll then discuss creating Automation, Integration, & Customizations in Flow Production Tracking to trigger processes based on events. We’ll analyze the tools and frameworks available, examining event logging, the event daemon framework, webhooks, and action menu items. Thanks to the Flow Production Tracking API and Automation, Integration, & Customization features, we can demonstrate cloud functionality in Autodesk Platform Services, integrating 3D visualization, geometry optimization, mesh checking, or simulation.

Seamless data workflows in manufacturing dramatically reduce friction and opportunity for error. Using Fusion Production software and its integrations to other Autodesk portfolio products, up-to-date production data can be shared across an organization. This ensures that everyone has the most-relevant data, in the right context, at the right time to make good decisions. Fast, accurate decision making enables faster production time and lower cost.

This case study will provide a complete overview of the motion picture workflow process, using various Autodesk tools to facilitate the creation production from submitted script to final delivery of a motion picture film. Using Twisted Pictures recent feature Trust (2025), we will examine the process of guiding the film from preproduction through production and post production and to the final delivery of all materials to the distributor Paramount Pictures. The emphasis of this study is to consolidate all these aspects into one multitiered data management universe using various Autodesk tool sets, all fully integrated and managed by a streamlined team of department heads.

Discover how Configure One enterprise product configurator can unburden your Engineering Team by streamlining and automating the creation of production information for your customer orders. Save time and reduce errors using Configure One software to dynamically generate sales and production drawings, configured bills of materials, and manufacturing routings. This session features Configure One.

Discover how Fusion Production software (a cloud-based tool for scheduling, tracking, and machine monitoring) works as part of a wider Autodesk manufacturing ecosystem and can give contract manufacturers and job shops a digital workflow to begin smart manufacturing. Establishing a connected network of processes within a job shop not only gives an overview of performance data, but also can be shared in upstream processes to unify the disciplines of design and manufacturing. We will demonstrate a workflow starting in CAD, moving to CAM, and ending with production management within Fusion Production. This will involve showing how we create and populate digital work instructions for process definition, conduct production tracking and quality assurance, and perform CNC machine monitoring. Finally, we will see how production data can be fed back into design and manufacturing teams to identify underperforming processes and make informed decisions to improve the return on existing assets.

Universities set up relationships with companies as a way to bring real-world experience to the students. The students get a better understanding of production needs, practical working experience, and production credit prior to graduation. The university gets support from a production house and a connection to benefit future students. For the production company, this provides an increased labor force, an opportunity to share work practices, and potential employees after graduation. There are opportunities to make a successful connection and provide students great hands-on experience while in school, along with some pitfalls. During this class, we will talk about how to work effectively with production houses in a university setting and cover some of the pitfalls you may encounter along the way.

Have you seen the amazing things the cinema and TV industry are doing with real-time virtual production (VP)? Do you find VP amazing, but don't have a clue where or how to start? Then this class is for you! We’ll show you the entire process of building a real-time VP laboratory from Revit software to construction, choosing equipment such as cameras, microphones, computers, SDI routers, connectors, lenses, lights, sensors, and much more. We'll also dive into the required software for all the VP workflow—such as 3ds Max software, Revit, Aximmetry, Pixotope, Unreal Engine, source control, production management—and all the important steps. All that while showing the cost of everything. Basically, you'll leave the class ready to build a lab for yourself or for your business’s marketing department—which is exactly what we did! At IM Designs, we're saving millions on content production, travel, and assistance to other companies producing content with our existing 3D production workforce. Autodesk University 2022 is going to be legendary!

Drawing Production is a process in which BIM Models should be used to generate drawings from the model including (General Plans, Plan & Profiles, Setting out, X- sections …etc). the current industry focus is always on the upstream Model Authoring process without much attention on what should be generated out of this model. And that’s where the problems start to arise. In this Session, you will learn how to unlock the full potential of Autodesk Civil 3D to tackle most of the drawing production challenges. We will focus on transportation and utilities sheet types and aim to demonstrate how to minimize the drawing production process time by around 90% of its current common status through demonstrating a BIM based approach, new features and workarounds.

Working with large sites and long roadways can be a challenging design task. Setting up sheets, checking the scales, and consistently creating viewports with content that flows through the design are all part of the project. With the plan production tools in Civil 3D software, you can automate the process of creating these types of sheets quickly. We will explore how to use these tools to create multiple plan sheets, plan and profile sheets, and sections on multiple layouts, which ties it all together in a sheet set ready for publishing your deliverable. Let’s get productive and learn how to optimize the production of final plans and profile drawings.

Get ready to “graphically” access real-time production-rich data from the field, on the move, or from your drawing office with a connected cloud-based Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow. This class will show you how to take advantage of Advance Steel software, Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform, and GRAITEC Advance Workshop software to not only gain access to intelligent digital BIM data related to actual production and delivery (at LOD 500) live from the field, but also the ways in which this can improve delivery coordination, reduce change order requests, and minimize errors. Autodesk, Inc., cloud services change the way live production information is accessed while on the move, and the bidirectional link between Advance Steel software and Advance Workshop software takes full advantage of this to deliver production status information graphically in real time anywhere, any time. Working in a live and connected BIM workflow at the sharp end of the project also enables time and costs savings to be achieved across the whole construction phase.

The complexities of managing a production can be a challenge to any production team, particularly when dealing with substantial amounts of data across various tools. Centralizing data tracking plays an essential part in optimizing the production process—a necessary strategy in any dynamic, client-centered industry where production teams need to be agile and capable of making swift adjustments to schedules and priorities. In this introductory session, we'll look at how to use Autodesk Flow Production Tracking software's cloud-based data management capabilities, demonstrated in the context of a simple games workflow. We'll explore the interface, explain the structure of data within Flow Production Tracking, and demonstrate how to use pages to track data and provide insights that decision makers can use to inform the success of their productions.

This class will illustrate how the collective offerings from EDGE Software, Progress Software Development, and Autodesk enabled a precast facility to adopt higher digitalization and optimization through tech- and data-enabled planning and production processes. We'll take a deep dive into how Revit and Autodesk Fusion 360 software play critical roles in planning precast production beds and servicing CAM workflows through computer numerical control (CNC) technologies. The class will highlight the efficiency gains and ROI that a real-world customer experienced by deploying these technologies.

This class will demonstrate how to use Fusion Production software to streamline the production of CNC parts. Attendees will learn how to set up and configure workcells and workstations using Fusion Production. Attendees will also learn how to track jobs as they are related to manufacturing, and get a visual view of current workloads of the available workcells and workstations. This class will also demonstrate how tasks can be moved from one workcell or workstation to a different workcell or workstation with more capacity.

ArX Solutions is a top U.S. visualization firm founded 19 years ago. We’ve created more than 5,000 images and over 200 films and animations. At the beginning of 2015 we were asked to create a film with live actors to show the vision for the New Waldorf Astoria. There was a big catch: it had to be finished in less than 30 days from beginning to end. In this class we will show the different steps taken to make this happen. This includes the script creation: coming up with a good idea; the storyboard: communicating our ideas to the client; the 3D when there was no design in place: the charrette process and work on site with the designers; and the green screen production. We will also cover tips and tricks; how to plan the shots in a way that work for a short timeframe; using 3D Max software and optimization of the rendering times through different scripts; the post production: blending all the pieces together; and the audio track: how it is as important as the visuals.

Solomon Rogers, founder of Rewind.co a world-renowned and award-winning virtual reality production agency, will take you through a brief history of a technology that seems to be have been around for decades, yet has never really got traction…until now. Delve deeply into the various technologies, techniques, and strategies used to create amazing immersive and commercially viable content. Sol will focus on examples of 360 immersive video in work for Björk, the high-octane Red Bull Air Race VR simulator, and the stunning interactive showrooms for Lexus vehicles. Rewind worked directly with Red Bull to create the world’s first Red Bull Air Race Virtual Reality Simulator. The experience enables members of the public to sit directly in the pilot’s chair and experience the blistering pace and quick turns of an Air Racer, putting them as close to the action as possible. Rewind will bring hardware and demonstrations to experience and explore and try firsthand. http://rewind.co/portfolio/red-bull-air-race/