This roundtable session is your opportunity to sit with other rendering experts from the industry and share your thoughts on the world of rendering. Discuss topics from inspiration and the 3D industry to rendering engine preferences and workflow processes. If you're passionate about rendering and 3D, this is the place for you.

The Raytracer Renderer (ART) is a fast, physically based renderer that is available for a number of Autodesk applications, including 3ds Max software, Revit software, and Inventor software. This 3ds Max software-based course is designed to show you how to get the most out of this exciting new renderer. The course will cover ART renderer workflow, as well as how to set up scenes for maximum speed and quality. This includes sections on physical materials, physical sun and sky, as well as image-based lighting workflows. The course will also show how to render for compositing into real-world footage. This session features 3ds Max, Inventor Professional, and Revit. AIA Approved

Do you want to create professional-looking renderings? Learn how to convert your 3D AutoCAD models into finished, photorealistic renderings using tools already built into AutoCAD software. In this class, you learn how to use lighting, material, and rendering tools in AutoCAD to place and control lights, add and adjust materials and textures, and control the surrounding model environment to produce eye-catching images. You see how to take real-world objects and quickly create custom materials, and produce reusable models of light fixtures that behave like real-world lights. You also see how to take full advantage of the Autodesk® 360 cloud-based rendering service to create beautiful renderings quickly and easily, and even produce rendered animations entirely inside AutoCAD.

The intuitive and easy-to-use software tools within Fusion 360 software make it super simple to carry out tasks like the rendering of a visual of a product. But there’s a whole lot more to Fusion 360 software’s rendering workspace. This hands-on, deep-dive session is for those who want to take their Fusion 360 rendering to the next level. We will look at workflows that address building custom materials and setting up environments, as well as adding small details such as layer lines on 3D prints and concept arrows to make your renders more realistic and change up your design communication game.

Visualizing a complex project requires creation of high-quality images for print, video, interactive, virtual reality (VR), and more. Print and video may require full-featured renderers such as Arnold or V-Ray, while interactive and VR demand real-time engines such as Unreal and Unity. These competing requirements often create conflicts, making it difficult to manage large projects. The solution is to create flexible rendering pipelines that can deliver many different outputs with a minimum of fuss. This course will explore ways to optimize your projects for easy rendering across multiple engines and formats. This includes setting up elements such as geometry, lighting, textures, and materials so they can be used throughout the project. The course will show how to move as seamlessly as possible between technologies—including 3ds Max software, Maya software, Arnold, V-Ray, Substance, Unreal, and Unity—in a production environment.

Do you want to create professional-looking renderings? In this class you will learn how to convert your 3D AutoCAD software models into finished, photorealistic renderings using tools already built into AutoCAD software. You will learn how to use AutoCAD software's lighting, material, and rendering tools to place and control lights; add and adjust materials and textures; and control the surrounding model environment to produce eye-catching images. You will also discover how to take real-world objects and quickly create custom materials, as well as produce reusable models of light fixtures that behave like real-world lights. You'll learn how to capitalize on the Autodesk 360 cloud-based rendering service to create beautiful renderings quickly and easily, and you'll even discover how to produce rendered animations entirely inside AutoCAD software.

It's not enough to know how to create great 3D renderings. You have to make images that really sell, and to do that you need the knowledge of a photographer to really sell your renderings. This class introduces worthy architectural photography principles and shows you how to apply them to 3D renderings. You learn how to translate good image composition, lighting, and staging to your renderings. This class also discusses photographic phenomena such as vignetting, barrel distortion, and glare, and explains how to fine-tune these photographic flaws to your advantage to create compelling visualization that really sells.

Now you can use Arnold 6 software for production rendering on both the CPU and GPU. John Paul Giancarlo will show you how to take advantage of the latest technology and add GPUs for increased rendering power. Learn about Arnold in the USD ecosystem, including Hydra render delegate, Arnold USD procedural, and USD schemas for Arnold nodes and properties.

Back by popular demand—this class will guide you through the essentials of creating a stunning image. Nowadays it’s not enough to just know how to create a rendering; to sell your image it’s important to know the vital rules and principles of photography. This timeless class will break down the principles of well-known architectural photographs and renderings and translate them to creating renderings using 3ds Max software. This class will also highlight photographic elements and demonstrate how to apply them to 3D renderings. So whether you want to create better renderings or learn more about photography, this class is for you.

It's not enough to know how to create striking 3D renderings; you have to make images that really sell. To effectively sell your renderings, you need the knowledge of a photographer. This class will introduce worthy architectural photography principles and show you how to apply them to 3D renderings. You will learn how to translate good image composition, lighting, and staging to your renderings. This class will also discuss photographic phenomena (such as vignetting, barrel distortion, and glare), and we will cover how to fine-tune these photographic flaws to your advantage to create compelling visualizations that really sell.

This class provides answers to at least the following questions: How many cloud credits do I need for my renderings? What are sun study, panorama, and illumination renderings? What is the alpha channel option for? Why does my background image not show up or why is it displaced? How can I download cloud renderings? Is there an offline viewer for panorama renderings? How can I share my renderings without sending them by email? We address these and other rendering questions.

Back by popular demand—this timeless class will guide you through the essentials of creating a stunning image. Nowadays it’s not enough to just know how to create a rendering; to sell your image it’s important to know the vital rules and principles of photography. This class will break down the principles of well-known architectural photographs and renderings and translate them to creating renderings using 3ds Max software. This class will also highlight photographic elements and demonstrate how to apply them to 3D renderings. So, whether you want to create better renderings or learn more about photography, this class is for you. This session features 3ds Max. AIA Approved

This class will describe how to do renderings from a Revit software model inside of 3ds Max software. Maximizing on the connecting power between 3ds Max software and Revit software, you will learn how to efficiently create a pipeline between the 2 applications, and you will discover some effective ways to maximize on the 2 applications in specific situations. You will also learn how to create realistic renderings with very minimal effort thanks to the simplicity, accuracy, and speed of the NVIDIA iray rendering engine. All of this combined will create a workflow that will enable you to create and iterate renderings of your designs in a demanding work environment.

As artists are inundated with more and more rendering technologies in 3ds Max software, the ability to choose the right one for the job is becoming less clear. In this session, we will examine the differentiation between some of the top and new offerings, as well as look at best practices that can improve your rendering experience no matter which technology you use. This session features 3ds Max.

This class will focus on how to use Inventor software to create realistic rendered images and videos. A good rendering is as much about details in the model geometry as it is with the rendering setup. First we will look at some tips to prepare a model so it will be a good candidate for a high-quality rendering. Then the class will run through the tools available in Inventor software and the improvements made to help create a rendering without leaving the Inventor software environment. After a quick look at the realistic view tool and its options, the class will enter the Inventor software Studio environment to set up and create an improved rendering. Once a single image has been, mastered the class will turn to video by animating moving parts and other environment settings.

Two things continue to be true in visual effects and rendering projects: schedules fluctuate, and the effort to get to final remains impossible to predict. This is where ZYNC was born: from the rendering pipelines of real studios, enabling small creative teams to focus on creativity rather than infrastructure. Using native Maya plugins and built-in licensing for today's most powerful rendering software, ZYNC lets studios burst their rendering to the cloud when they need it most. ZYNC has been the go-to rendering solutions for over a dozen feature films and hundreds of commercials, totaling over 50 million core rendering hours. This course will show how small-to-midsize facilities can leverage the power of Google Cloud Platform to render their most complex, CPU-intensive jobs on ZYNC.

This lab will introduce designers to the real-world use of, and best practices for, rendering Revit software models using 3ds Max software and the NVIDIA iray rendering machine. Learn key techniques for working with Revit software models inside of 3ds Max software, and discover what it takes to render photographic-quality images using the iray rendering machine. Explore the creation and application of the Autodesk, Inc., library materials to quickly create surface textures. Utilize the daylight lighting system to simulate outdoor lighting. This class will introduce the use of traditional architectural photographic techniques and composition for the creation of compelling images. Learn how to control the camera through the use of composition techniques like the rule of thirds and the diagonal method. Use 3ds Max software exposure controls to adjust the scene exposure, and then set up and render using the iray rendering machine. See how you can get ahead of the competition by creating visually compelling, photorealistic renderings using photographic compositions and the iray rendering machine.

Autodesk manufacturing customers have a wide range of options for creating rendered images of their designs. This class will give an overview of product and capabilities available to PDMC customers and users within the manufacturing design space, and why and where you would use each one to best effect.

Fusion 360 software is a powerful CAD software system, and one of its most powerful capabilities is the Autodesk Rendering environment. This class will cover how to achieve impressive, photo-realistic renderings. Topics will include everything from basic layout and composition to best practices for using materials, lighting, and environment effects. While this class will focus on examples of product design within Fusion 360 software’s rendering environment, the ideas described can be applied to any rendering situation and any rendering program. Compelling renderings are a key tool for successful storytelling of designs and concepts to a wide audience. This class will help you achieve rendering awesomeness.

Back by popular demand! Learn how to maximize the productivity between designing in Revit software and rendering in 3ds Max software with NVIDIA’s iray rendering engine. Discover all the settings and tricks regarding how to properly set up a Revit software model to make the transition into 3ds Max software as effective as possible. Once in 3ds Max software, all the work done in Revit software will transfer over, enabling more time for rendering and less time spent worrying about the design. NVIDIA’s iray rendering engine, which takes advantage of the graphics processing unit (GPU), will enable realistic renderings with very minimal effort. The simplicity, accuracy, and speed of iray with NVIDIA GPUs remove all the nuance of typical rendering engines. All of this combined will create a streamlined workflow for teams, which will enable them to create and iterate renderings of your designs in a demanding production environment.