SANAutodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) will be participating in the National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB) being held next week in Las Vegas, Nevada. NAB is the world’s largest electronic media show, attracting more than 100,000 attendees. At NAB 2006, Autodesk will reveal its latest media and entertainment technology, designed to help broadcasters, post-production facilities, and film and broadcast production companies realize their most creative ideas.
Autodesk’s NAB 2006 theme is “Creating the Whole Picture”. The company’s state-of-the-art media and entertainment technology enables visual storytelling, from idea exploration and pre-visualization to final renderings. Digital artists use Autodesk’s solutions to create and share assets across entire production pipelines, whether they are crafting movies, video games, television content or architectural designs.
Product Announcements
At its NAB booth #SL3719 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Autodesk will showcase its expanded suite of content creation solutions for the film and television markets, including Autodesk Maya 3D animation software and Autodesk MotionBuilder character animation software. The following new products will be presented at the Autodesk booth:
  • Autodesk Toxik 2007 collaborative digital compositing software for feature film production, which includes a Paint system that allows interactive painting of high-resolution, high-dynamic-range imagery
  • Autodesk’s Discreet Inferno visual effects system on the Linux operating system, which offers up to five times the performance (per CPU) of previous SGI platforms such as the Onyx 2
  • Autodesk MotionBuilder 7.5 character animation software, which features new keyframe-centric workflows that streamline the process of keyframe animation
  • 10-bit RGB versions of Autodesk’s Discreet Flint visual effects system and Discreet Smoke editing system.
Autodesk’s Media & Entertainment Division will demonstrate its complete line, including the aforementioned products, as well as: the Discreet Flame visual effects system, Autodesk Combustion desktop visual effects software, Autodesk Incinerator functionality ‘ which increases the real-time performance and interactivity of the Discreet Lustre digital color grading system, and Autodesk 3ds Max animation software.