1125 Results for "animation"
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Animations for Architects
Animations typically have a polished and time-intensive connotation. However, increases in computing power and program interoperability have begun to bend this notion. This class will focus on the benefits of quick animations—animations that help designers form, shape, understand, and present a design. We will explore the methods that are required to take Autodesk® Revit® software models and move them into Autodesk® 3ds Max® software in ways that allow designers to make active design decisions. We will show quick, functional animation workflows, covering a variety of topics, including solar glare, form, constructability, programming, scheduling, and more through animation. This class hopes to show that designers can effectively study and explain their designs through fast-production animations. We will show start-to-finish methods through case studies.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014
Making Fast and Effective Animation: Procedural Animation Tools in 3ds Max Software
Animation can be a time-consuming venture that can slow down the production pipeline. You can use a host of procedural animation tools to speed the process and produce flexible and editable animation sequences. This class will help attendees to expand their knowledge of 3ds Max software's animation toolset and procedural animation methods.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020
Animation Timing and Texture
Jason Martinsen is an animation industry professional with 18 years of animation experience at companies like Naughty Dog, Sony, Blue Sky, DNEG, Coalition, Moon Studios, and Reel FX. In this session, he will talk about some animation tips and tricks he’s learned throughout the years. He will gear the discussion toward animation professionals and students, and the topics covered will use terminology unfamiliar to non-animators.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
Making Fast and Effective Animation V2: Procedural Animation Tools in 3ds Max
Animation can be a time-consuming venture that can slow down the production pipeline. You can use a host of procedural animation tools to speed the process and produce flexible and editable animation sequences. This class will mix methods from Autodesk University 2014 with new methods to help attendees to expand their knowledge of 3ds Max software's animation toolset and procedural animation methods.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
Construction Animations
Learn how to create construction-sequencing animations in 3ds Max software using data from Revit software and Navisworks software. This class will show you how to prepare data export from Revit and Navisworks to get the best results for lighting, rendering, and animating in 3ds Max software. Learn how to set up the imported data to reflect different types of construction sequences on a timeline, including appearance, movement, and scaling simulations, while also using 3ds Max data for vehicle and crane simulations. See how this software workflow can help you market your construction project to a broader range of stakeholders and win new prestigious projects for your organization.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
Automating the Animation Process: Creating Exploded Views for Visualization
This class will show how to use 3ds Max software’s animation tools to create exploded view animations for architecture and product design. Complex projects can contain hundreds or thousands of parts and animating these manually can prove daunting. The class will cover a variety of tools and techniques that you can use to manage and automate the animation of large numbers of objects for a variety of applications.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013
Cheap Tricks: Animation Shortcuts for Storytelling
This class covers several techniques for shortening the amount of time needed to produce architectural animations. The class demonstrates the impact of planning during the layout and animatic phase of an animation project and how camera decisions can save time and money.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
Construction Sequence Animations
This class seeks to understand the complexity that is construction sequence animations. We’ll walk through the steps involved in planning out an animation, and discuss which tools are best suited for the job and how to divide the labor. We'll start by understanding what information you need to receive from your client, and we’ll review camera matching drone footage and the workflow from Revit to 3ds Max software. We'll wrap up with compositing in After Effects. Most important is knowing how to manage the process and make sure everyone is working toward the same goal. We'll diagram this process with simple and effective flow diagrams.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
Camera Animation, Mastering the Camera Controls
Learn how to create smooth and believable camera animation using different techniques, how to create simple camera rigs to have more control over the camera movements, and how to understand the curve editor and camera parameters to modify the timing and movements.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2016
Animation for 3D Printing
This class will look at how we can apply animation techniques to 3D printing—from laying out geometry to hiding support structures to creating interesting new models. Animation can be a great design tool. This session features Print Studio, 3ds Max, and Maya. AIA Approved
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2016
Principles of Animation for Visualization, Architecture, and Design
This course will show designers, architects, and engineers how to make better and more-appealing animations for visualization, architecture, and design. Taught by an animation-industry veteran, this fast-moving presentation will take the basic principles of animation and use them to demonstrate ways to make your animations more visually appealing and easier to understand. The course will cover such topics as the importance of design and layout and the importance of storytelling, and we’ll discuss maintaining proper timing and adding weight. We will also cover technical topics such as animation curves, motion paths, and procedural animation, but in a non-software-specific way to make the topics and processes accessible to all. This session features 3ds Max and Maya. AIA Approved
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2015
Animation Breakdown
Generating your standard fly-through animation doesn't cut it anymore in the architecture industry. Creating a captivating piece that will excite your client and captivate the audience requires some forethought. In this class we will go through an animation process, highlighting techniques used on a recent project that Tiltpixel was tasked with to sell an idea for a private school in South America. Using 3ds Max software we will go through setting up complex scenes, touching on lighting, rendering, and post producing.
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2013
Animation of Inventor Assemblies Using 3ds Max Design
Inventor software is a great tool for building complex mechanical assemblies, and 3ds Max Design software is a great tool for generating visually stunning rendered animations. This hands-on labs fuses the 2 programs and covers topics related to the animation of Inventor assemblies using 3ds Max 2014. You learn how to import an Inventor assembly that will be used for animation in 3ds Max. You also learn strategies for building a hierarchy based on the animation requirements for the imported models. The class steps you through the process of creating keyframe animation of specific moveable parts. Finally, you learn about the tools that are available for editing keyframes and tweaking the overall look and timing of the animation. To complete the process, you learn how to configure and render an image sequence for final output using the Quicksilver hardware renderer.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020
New Character Rigging and Animation Tools in Maya
Maya software has recently added some significant new tools for character rigging and animation. These include Offset Parent Matrix, which creates an entirely new way to think about rigging characters. Understand how this feature works and how it can simplify rigs to make them both faster and easier to understand. In addition, new utility nodes such as UV Pin, Proximity Pin, and Rivet can help accelerate facial animation and other skinning tasks. Learn how to use these tools to create better rigs for your characters. Animation features include a brief tour of the new Maya Motion Library, along with a number of animation productivity enhancements, which can speed the animation process.
Panel / Las Vegas 2023
Is Immersive Animation the Ultimate Interface for Content Creators?

While professional artists use high-fidelity animation techniques—pioneered and refined by Autodesk’s animation products MotionBuilder, 3ds Max, and Maya—in games, film, and design production pipelines, we ask the questions: What if the user is not as skilled? What if their requirements for control are not as stringent Could we leverage new input modalities to allow untrained creators to record and edit 3D motion in just a few minutes? We’ll discuss the speed and utility afforded by animating in a completely new paradigm: One that allows you to express intent with your body, fingers, face, gaze, and speech while enhancing presence, storytelling, and collaboration in real-time immersive experiences, and engaging your spatial understanding, reasoning, and memory to author 3D animations. Come and hear what our panel of experts from Meta Platforms, Workshop XR, Entertainment and Media Solutions as well as Autodesk Research have to say.

Article / 2017
How to Make Appealing Animations for Visualization, Architecture, and Design
This article will show designers, architects, and engineers how to make more appealing animations for visualization, architecture, and design. I’ll take the basic principles of animation and use them to demonstrate ways to make your animations more visually appealing and easier to understand.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2018
Make It Move! Animation and Rigging in 3ds Max for Engineers and Architects
Creating animations beyond simple camera flyovers and keyframe sequences can be a daunting task for those in the engineering and architectural fields. The ability to use the more advanced animation tools offered in 3ds Max software opens up many new ways of presenting and controlling the complex and intricate models we create. This class will look at several of these tools, from wire parameters to complicated linking and constraints, used to automatically animate models. This class will feature a demonstration and deconstruction of the model used for creating the Interstate 90 Track Bridge, which, in an engineering first, will let light-rail vehicles travel over the I-90 floating bridge in Seattle, Washington. The model created for workshops and design reviews needed to be a real-time, interactive tool that could respond to real-world input values such as lake level and wind to measure critical elements.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
Animation Workflow from 3ds Max and Maya to VRED
The presentation will show a live demonstration of the workflows used for creating an animation in 3ds Max software and in Maya software, including how to prepare them and export the data in order to import them into VRED software for doing a real-time visualization. The live demonstration will show examples of classic keyframe animations, cloth-like vertex animation, and character animation from 3ds Max software and Maya software to VRED software.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014
Rendering and Animation for Building Design with 3ds Max
3ds Max Design rendering and animation software is extremely powerful. It can also be intimidating and overwhelming for the novice or casual user. This class will show you the specific workflows and tools you need to quickly and effectively create still images and animated sequences for visualizing building projects. We will cover specific settings to control both interior and exterior lighting (including night scenes), and easy yet effective methods to create animated walk-through sequences of a building. Stop getting lost in the miasma of tools that are unnecessary for building animation, and stop going down blind alleys. This class will focus strictly on the tools that you need to do your job.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2019
Using Maya for Low-Budget 3D Animation in Emerging Markets: A Case Study
This class is a case-study presentation about the use of Maya software to produce a 3D-animated TV pilot for the Brazilian market with almost no money. Although Maya is usually thought of as the software of choice of big Hollywood studios, it can also be very effective in a low-budget context. The TV pilot used as a case study, "Dragao de Aco” (Steel Dragon), was produced with a grant from the Brazilian government in 2017–2018. It is a 22-minute, 3D-animated TV pilot with anime-inspired visuals.
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