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Autodesk's Media and Entertainment Division is part of Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK).
The division empowers media professionals to realize their ideas, transforming their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality.
Autodesk's award-winning solutions are designed for digital media creation, management and delivery across all disciplines from film and television visual effects, color grading and editing to animation, game development and design visualization.
Markets Served
- Film
- Broadcast/television
- Interactive gaming
- Design visualization
Accomplishments
- World leader in integrated digital content creation, management and distribution tools
- Over the last 10 years, all winners of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in a Film used Autodesk's media and entertainment solutions
- Two-thirds of the top grossing films since 1993 used Autodesk's effects and editing technology
- More than half of the top 250 video games were developed using Autodesk 3ds Max software
- Majority of all Xbox console game developers use Autodesk 3ds Max software
- Leader in high-definition television (HDTV) and digital cinema solutions
- Autodesk's Discreet Inferno and Discreet Flame designers won the 1998 Scientific and Engineering Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Production Credits The list of award-winning productions and entertainment created with Autodesk's solutions continues to grow and contains thousands of titles. A selection of completed productions is below.
Feature Films Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl Sin City Lords of Dogtown Land of the Dead Fantastic Four Amityville Horror The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Day After Tomorrow The Last Samurai Elf X2: X-men United Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Games Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Jade Empire Prince of Persia: Warrior Within World of Warcraft Pariah Grand Theft Auto Battlefield 1942 MYST V: End of Ages Quake Tomb Raider Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War: Winter Assault Ghost Recon 3
Television Shows The Sopranos Lost Carnivale Nip/Tuck CSI, CSI: New York, CSI: Miami Six Feet Under The Grid Charmed Monk Entourage Law & Order: Criminal Intent Battlestar Gallactica Television Spots McDonald's "Patio" Ford Mustang "Cornfield" Nike Air Jordan XX Spot McIlhenny Tabasco "Tan Line" Budweiser "Journey" Emerald Nuts "Exaggerating Dad" Verizon Wireless 3G "Miniaturization" Frito-Lay "Fence" Cadillac "Turbulence" Subway Restaurants "Misunderstanding IBM "Prodigy III-Revised" AOL "Motorcycle", "Car" and "Slow Ride" Sierra Mist "Bagpipe" and "Fire Escape"
Autodesk Consulting Autodesk Consulting services for the media and entertainment market are designed to optimize the creative functionality, power and openness of digital content creation workflows. Select professional services include pipeline (data) management, calibration of the Discreet Lustre digital color grading system, customization of digital 3D environments, implementation services for a variety of products - including Autodesk Toxik software and Autodesk Stone Shared storage area network, custom application development and specialized training. World Headquarters 10 Duke Street Montreal Quebec H3C 2L7 Canada Tel: (1) 514-393-1616 Tel: (2) 1-800-869-3504 Fax: (1) 514-393-0110 Fax: (2) 1-800-305-6442
EMEA Ingeni Building 15-17 Broadwick Street London W1F 0DE UK
Tel: +44 (0) 207 851 8000 Fax: +44 (0) 207 851 8001
Autodesk Media and Entertainment - based in Montreal, Quebec - was established in 1999 after Autodesk, Inc. acquired Discreet Logic Inc. and merged its operations with Kinetix®.
Trademark Information; Autodesk, Discreet, Toxik, Inferno, Flame, Flint, Fire, Smoke, Lustre, 3ds Max, Backdraft, Combustion, Stone, Burn, Cleaner, Wire and Character Studio are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc./ Autodesk Canada Co. in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Related press releases for Autodesk
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