Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) Media & Entertainment Solutions empower media professionals to fully experience their creative ideas, transforming their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality.

Our award-winning solutions are designed for digital media creation, management, and delivery across all disciplines, from film and television visual effects, colour grading and editing to animation, game development, and design visualisation.

Autodesk Media & Entertainment, based in Montreal, Quebec, was established in 1999 after Autodesk acquired Discreet Logic Inc. and merged its operations with Kinetix. In January 2006, Autodesk acquired Alias, a developer of 3D graphics technology.

Markets Served

• Film
• Broadcast/television
• Interactive gaming
• Design visualisation

Global Presence
500+ employees worldwide

Accomplishments

• Over the past 13 years, all winners of the Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects in a Film used Autodesk solutions.
• More than two-thirds of the top-grossing films since 1993 used Autodesk's effects and editing technology.
• Autodesk developers, Duncan Brinsmead, Jos Stam, Julia Pakalns and Martin Werner received a 2007 Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the design and implementation of the Maya Fluid Effects System
• Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya received 2007 National Television Academy Awards.
• Autodesk's Principal Scientist Jos Stam received a 2005 Technical Achievement Award (Academy certificate) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• Autodesk Maya developers won the 2002 Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• Autodesk Inferno and Autodesk 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 solutions includes thousands of titles and continues to grow. Following is a selection of completed productions.

Feature Films
28 Weeks Later
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Atonement
Beowulf
Charlie Wilson's War
Evan Almighty
Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer
Hairspray
I Am Legend
Live Free Or Die Hard
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
No Country for Old Men
Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy
Rendition
Spider-Man Trilogy
Stardust
Surf's Up
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Golden Compass
The Kite Runner
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Transformers

Television
Boston Legal
British Style Genius
Casualty
Coast
CSI Franchise
Dirty Sexy Money
Doctor Who
Entourage
Fifi and the Flowertots
Galapagos
Grey's Anatomy
Headcases
House
In The Night Garden
My Name is Earl
Nip/Tuck
Prison Break
Planet Earth
Pushing Daisies
Roary The Racing Car
Samantha Who
Two and a Half Men
Ugly Betty

Television Commercials
Bridgestone Tires', "Unexpected Obstacles" and "The Scream"
Bud Light, "Breath Fire", "Wheel", "Fly" and "Endorsement"
Budweiser, "Clydesdale Team"
Cadillac, "Live in It"
Coca-Cola, "It's Mine"
Dell, "Out with The Old"
Diet Pepsi Max, "Nod"
FedEx, "Carrier Pigeons"
Hyundai, "Fluid"
Sony Bravia, "Paint"
T-Mobile, "Dwayne Wins"
Toyota, "Trike Race"

Product Portfolio
VFX: Autodesk Inferno, Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Flint, Autodesk Toxik, Autodesk Combustion
Editing/finishing: Autodesk Smoke
DI: Autodesk Lustre
3D: Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk, Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Autodesk Mudbox, Autodesk ImageModeler, Autodesk Stitcher

Stereoscopy White Paper

Red One Camera Post production Workflows

Contact Information
World headquarters:
10 rue Duke
Montreal, Quebec
H3C 2L7, Canada
T: +1 514.393.1616
F: +1.800.869.3504

Europe, Middle East, & Africa:
Ingeni Building
15-17 Broadwick Street
London W1F 0DE
T: +44 (0) 207 851 8000
F: +44 (0) 207 851 8001

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