Despite the differences between architecture, engineering, construction, design and manufacturing and the media & entertainment sectors, they all share a common mission: to design and make a better world. So, how can we benefit from each other's unique experiences? How can we leverage technology, workflows and skills from animation, VFX, and game development and apply them to other industries? Whether you're an architect designing the future skyline or a game developer crafting your next open-world adventure, join this digital to hear from industry voyagers who have traversed these sectors. Share your knowledge and engage in insightful discussions about the common threads within the design & make industries.

Creating stunning, real-time interactive visuals for architecture, product design, and manufacturing is fast and easy with Unreal Studio. Unreal Studio is Epic Games’ suite of tools for importing 3D models from CAD and Digital Content Creation applications to Unreal Engine. This session will explore Unreal Engine visualization workflows and the Unreal Studio toolset, and illustrate how the Datasmith plug-in can accelerate your enterprise workflow.

Alstom uses VRED Professional software to produce high-quality imagery for project communication, as well as real-time-experiences production for design reviews and communication movies, enabling a single-visualization digital mockup. Meanwhile, Alstom also needs to make sure its designs reach a broader population that includes external teams and individuals, and from this perspective, the communication production workflow is provided by Stingray game engine. This talk will describe the collaboration between Alstom and Autodesk, Inc., to build a VRED data workflow that capitalizes on Stingray game engine as an output source for their designs, consequently extending the reach of their project communication capabilities. This session features VRED Professional and Autodesk Stingray.

In this presentation, car designer Ning Ding will show best practices in automotive design through fast concept modeling, sketching, rendering, and animation workflows. Drawing on the full power available in Alias AutoStudio, Ning will share how designers and digital sculptors can work together during this process to bring a design to life. Ning will share live demo vignettes to show how designers can sketch and even directly create concept model by Alias, Speedform and Maya, visualize and render the 3D model in VRED and even create animations and cool scenes in Maya. Ning will also share insights into the current state of the automotive design market in China, where he has both practiced as a professional designer as well as his current job as a subject matter expert working for Autodesk. This session features Alias AutoStudio and Alias Concept.

SYNK is an innovative real-time production toolkit that enables content creators to produce linear and virtual content using the same tools and processes used by big studios with decades of experience in animation. SYNK allows assets from traditional digital content creation software and outputs from game engines to be managed in a single accessible environment through an integrated real-time workflow. SYNK manages the data from the early concept phase all the way to final delivery, enabling output to virtual reality (VR) and extended reality (XR), cinema, animation, video games, and virtual productions.

Are you new to design visualization? Are you having a hard time understanding the language needed to communicate or produce the daily requests for images or videos? Do you not know how a photorealistic image is constructed from a software perspective? Through various software examples, you will learn the basics of design visualization. This lecture will help you understand the language used to create images or videos that will communicate your designs. Get an overview of the Autodesk, Inc., design visualization portfolio. This class will work from concrete examples directly related to 3ds Max Design software, Maya software, Showcase software, VRED software, Navisworks software, Ecotect Analysis green building software, InfraWorks software, Revit software, Inventor software, AutoCAD software, and the Fusion 360 3D CAD design app.

It is time for landscape to step up its digital game and claim a bigger slice of the design spotlight alongside architects and engineers. This session will explore the direct leap from 2D to landscape information modeling (LIM), with a twist: envisioning AI's role in landscape. This session will explore how Henning Larsen architects transition from traditional 2D design to LIM with Revit tools and workflows, while pointing out both challenges and opportunities. Toward the end of the session, we'll explore how using AI can empower landscapers to optimize resource management, enhance water efficiency, and propel sustainable practices. Furthermore, we'll explore the potential of AI-driven LIM for critical sustainability metrics, such as energy consumption, carbon footprint, and ecological equilibrium. This session will advocate for landscape design's digital evolution, transitioning to LIM with AI possibility, as exemplified by the experiences of Henning Larsen architects.

Exciting possibilities lie ahead in Media & Entertainment. Unprecedented demand for high production value content is ushering in a new era of technological innovation. In this session, M&E leaders will share more about Autodesk's Design & Make Platform, as well as the newly announced capabilities in Autodesk Flow, our industry cloud for media & entertainment. Learn about how you can join the Flow mission into the future of content production while leveraging the power of Autodesk AI and our core portfolio.

In this class the attendees will see the workflow used for taking results from Autodesk, Inc.'s, simulation products to its Media & Entertainment products (Showcase software, 3ds Max software, and VRED software) for high-end visualization, rendering, and video production.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. Innovation requires change not just from each of us as individuals, but also from organizations. Learn how companies from across the Design and Make industries have broken down boundaries between teams, restructured hierarchies, empowered people, encouraged professional development, and adapted to the challenges and opportunities of transformation to create businesses that are more resilient, more collaborative, and more competitive.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. From mainframes to desktops, networked devices to cloud-based platforms, the ways we access compute processing and storage unlock new possibilities for industry. Explore how companies from across the Design and Make industries are putting the Autodesk platform to work to analyze data in new ways, automate mundane tasks, and augment human abilities, helping us make our jobs more fulfilling and our industries more effective and responsible.

Using open source tools and open formats, CIMIC is federating their largest 3D architectural models, directly from ACC and into the Unity game engine. They show record loading times and record rendering speeds with the largest of federated scenes, while keeping ACC versioning, filtering and coloring, of single elements. This case study compares different pipelines that were explored before choosing the final result. Topics include ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity, IFC, I3S, OBJ, USD, FBX, 3D-Tiles and glTF. Learn how you can integrate ACC 3D models into your own game engine using APS, open source tools and open formats.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas in short talks from Design & Make thought leaders. Walk-ins welcome. From the increasing role of AI in industry and the challenges of upskilling workers to the need to improve sustainability while maintaining business resilience, join experts and leaders from across the Design and Make industries for a panel discussion of the findings from the 2024 State of Design and Make Report and get a sneak peek at preliminary findings for 2025.

About USD$2 trillion—that's the amount of money the architecture, engineering, and construction industry has lost due to bad data. Bad data is data that's inaccurate, inaccessible, and incomplete. In the industries Autodesk serves, data is a critical lifeline for project decisions and automations. But all too frequently, that data is not easily accessible, or, even worse, the available data is simply bad. Across the globe, the ability to use data in an insightful manner is no longer a "nice to have"—it has become a primary source of competitive advantage. Furthermore, with the acceleration of AI, the need for data is increasing exponentially. Those who use their data to make informed decisions and gain performance insights will ultimately emerge as leaders in their industries. Meet the leaders behind the industry data models to learn more about how Autodesk will help solve top customer problems.

Hear from a panel of technical visionaries as they explore the role of Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) in fostering open data exchange—not just in media and entertainment, but across industries. From traditional filmmaking to virtual production, architecture, engineering, construction, automotive, and manufacturing, our team of experts will explore how USD opens the door for seamless connectivity and collaboration across large-scale 3D projects of all kinds. 

This course aims to educate participants on the innovative integration of machine learning (ML) techniques for deformation approximation within Maya software. Using approximations for (part of) a deformation stack can highly improve interactivity when using complex rigs, and can significantly improve the portability between different applications. It is designed for animators, game developers, VFX artists, and any professional interested in exploring the intersection of ML and 3D animation. This course will explore a demo of a rig with computationally expensive muscle deformations that is reduced to a simple, general, black-box neural network that only requires inputs from the motion system. We'll show the entire setup process in detail. In addition, we'll go over best practices, tips, and limitations to help users get the most out of this tool for their production needs.

Learn our secret recipe to the expansion success of Autodesk BIM Collaborate software. Hear why our teams say they would "dread working on a project" without it! Let us take you on our journey of how we have maximized efficiency, reducing actions that took weeks to minutes. Do you want to know why our management teams say it's been a game changer to 90+ projects with 1,600+ users?

Jump in for an exclusive behind-the-scenes of the Paris Basket Arena design & construction! This versatile venue can accommodate up to 9,000 spectators for concerts, various performances and basketball games, and is one of the very few new buildings build for Paris' games… This Class will showcase the successful integration of BIM for this challenging project on an immovable deadline, high technical complexity, with nothing but excellence as a goal for a seamless Paris' games experience. By harnessing the power of BIM technology , the project team achieved outstanding results in meeting client expectations, addressing environmental challenges, and enhancing productivity and safety. Explore with us how innovative technical tools and processes were developed with Revit API to set up a safe seamless and efficient construction site. The Paris Basket Arena stands as a remarkable testament to the power of BIM in realizing architectural excellence, sustainability, and operational efficiency.

Take advantage of Vault Professional lifecycle and workflow tools to automatically create PDFs for your drawings. In this class, you will learn the steps required to create a lifecycle, workflow, and category for automatic PDF creation. This class will also help you to understand the functionality of the Job Processor application for the PDF generation. Based on the knowledge you gain in this class, your Vaulted environment will be set up to automatically convert your IDW and DWG™ drawings to PDF files upon releasing the drawing files. This workflow will save you time by avoiding manual drawing file conversion to PDF. In addition, all the Vault users will always have access to the latest PDF drawings.

The complexity of bid packages, which combine 3D models and 2D drawings, has estimators worldwide struggling to calculate accurate quantities. The added pressure of receiving updated bid packages has also caused estimators to work long hours and have sleepless nights. The result is either not winning the job or winning with little profit. This is where Autodesk Takeoff software—the cloud-based 2D and 3D QTO tool hosted on Autodesk Construction Cloud—is proving to be a game changer. This lab will focus on giving attendees a hands-on experience of the connected takeoff process using the industry-leading automated 3D takeoff capabilities combined with easy-to-use 2D takeoff tools. You'll learn the process of setting up 3D and 2D takeoff types, adding unit cost to takeoff types, performing accurate takeoffs, updating the bid package with the new set of drawings, comparing existing snapshots to active takeoff currently in progress, and then exporting the combined 3D and 2D takeoff inventory.