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SIGGRAPH 2019

The Forge DevTech M&E team will be attending SIGGRAPH this year! You can find me, Cheng Xi Li, Kevin Vandecar, and Denis Grigor at the Autodesk booth (#1211) in the Exhibition. Come to our booth to check out our demos and learn more about Forge. At the Autodesk booth, you can also find Maya, 3ds Max, and other Autodesk product teams there. The Exhibition hours are Tue (7/30) 9:30 AM - 6 PM, Wed (7/31) 9:30 AM - 6 PM,... Read more →

Maya and the Forge APIs - Discount for Forge DevCon

To start, have you heard about the new Autodesk Forge platform? Forge is a place that gathers many new cloud service APIs into one place for consumption by developers. Forge includes the platform technology, a program for supporting partners (think ADN open on a broader scale), including a developer conference coming in June, and a fund where startups can apply for an investment by the Forge fund. What does this have to do with Maya programming concepts? Well, there are... Read more →

Autodesk University Call for Proposals

The Autodesk University Call for Proposals will close on May 26th, so there's still time to submit a proposal and get free entry to AU. My colleague, Stephen Preston, being the track lead for the 'Developer' track, is particularly interested in persuading you to submit a proposal for a class or lab on an API/programming topic. Your proposal could be on an Autodesk API, but we also like to include a few classes/labs each year on general programming topics (programming... Read more →

Get ready for the Autodesk Cloud Accelerator Program

Last week, I was in Melbourne and Sydney for Autodesk University Sydney and couple of meetups around game and animation. That was very cool to see people from the opposite side of the planet. As you can read, that was my first time in Australia :) But Now, I need to rush on preparing for Autodesk University in Las Vegas this time. As always in the fall time, I am late on everything. The project using the Oculus Rift and... Read more →

ADN Devdays @ AU Las Vegas 2014

Back from HackZurich, one of the Hackathons we are sponsoring this year. The winners had a good VR solution based on WebGL for viewing, 2 smart phones to create a stereo camera. That was neat... Once again, we will present the ADN Developer Conference - DevDays on December 1st (the day before AU) where 3ds Max and Maya engineering will introduce the new APIs in the upcoming releases and DevHack, a drop-in programming workshop on December 2nd. We will also... Read more →

An online event with an opportunity to receive up to US $100 per app published and win one of eight iPad minis!

We are excited to announce the 2014 Autodesk® Exchange Apps Hackathon. While similar in concept to the Portathon that we held in 2013, this event is bigger, better, has new competitions and great prizes. Anyone can participate from anywhere in the world and at any time both before the event and during the Hackathon days. We’ve assembled a great line up of speakers to give presentations and demos on hot topics that will help your overall app development and technical... Read more →

ADN Devdays @ AU Las Vegas 2014 - Call for Proposals

I am looking for presenters for the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) M&E Conference. If you or someone you know would like the opportunity to present, please submit a proposal including the duration of your presentation. The ADN M&E Conference is a great way to share your current API’s, tips & tricks or knowledge about solving production challenges. Please keep in mind, the focus and audience of the ADN conference is developers. Classes need to have a WOW factor that speaks... Read more →

ADN Hunter competition

The results are in: The highlight of Autodesk University for the ADN team every year is meeting you - developers using Autodesk technology - and talking about the amazing things you’re doing with Autodesk APIs. But sometimes it’s difficult to find you in the crowd. That is why, this year, we decided to turn the hunters into the hunted and award an iPad Mini prize to the three ADN partners who could track down the most members of the ADN... Read more →

@AU

Well, so far, so good! We had a great ADN session on Monday, before AU proper kicked off yesterday. Lots of opportunities to talk with old friends and new. It’s always fun to find out what people are doing with our technology and hopefully to help address some of the snags they’ve hit along the way. The only downside for me is that the attendance wasn't as high as last year ;) something I need to work on because I... Read more →

Still not registered for the free developer conference?

ADN Hunter If you are attending the Free ADN developer conference at AU next week, Photograph these rare animals at DevDay and AU for a chance to win an iPad Mini We’d love to meet you and talk to you about the amazing things you are doing with Autodesk technology so to encourage you to say “hi” and to make it fun, we’re running a small competition. The rules are simple: Download the AU Mobile App Track down as many... Read more →

ADN Devdays @ AU Las Vegas 2013

Back from AU Brazil where I made an introduction to Oauth and RESTful API, and it is already time to think about AU Las Vegas and the ADN Devdays. Once again, we will present the ADN Developer Conference the day before AU where 3ds Max and Maya engineering will introduce the new APIs in the upcoming releases. We will also have eight industry lectures on making the best use of various APIs such as PySide, Python, the new 3ds Max... Read more →

Autodesk DevDays 2013

DevDays is a great way to get a sense of what technology is coming from Autodesk, something that’s valuable even for Autodesk employees: the ADN team does a great job of synthesising what’s coming from our various product groups – a challenging task for lots of reasons (the timing of the event relative to development schedules, the volume of information to summarise and present within a limited amount of time, the difficulty of creating demo apps on pre-Alpha software, etc...).... Read more →

ADN Devdays @ AU Las Vegas 2013 - Call for Proposals

I am looking for presenters for the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) M&E Conference. If you or someone you know would like the opportunity to present, please submit a proposal including the duration of your presentation. The ADN M&E Conference is a great way to share your current API’s, tips & tricks or knowledge about solving production challenges. Please keep in mind, the focus and audience of the ADN conference is developers. Classes need to have a WOW factor that speaks... Read more →

ADN Conference recordings available

Not that it is something really new as they've been posted late December for most of them, but last week we posted all the public ones on Area. You may remember an invite posted last June for people to present at the ADN conference. These videos are the one people who were accepted presented. Other recordings will remain accessible to ADN members only until May/June time as they contain confidential information on 3ds Max & Maya, ... next releases. Adding... Read more →

Heading for ADN M&E Devdays & Devlab in Japan

Tokyo - Last stop in this tour before flying back home to celabrate Christmas. See what Devdays and Devlab are about here. The talks in Shanghai and Beijing were well recived and well attendeed. Unlike for AU, the talks were not recorded, but we had very good lectures and presenters talking about what they do and how. Interresting to see how China ramp-up very quickly in this difficult industry. Read more →

A day in Shanghai

Still on the road for the annual ADN M&E devdays and sitting in the back of the room now I delivered the introduction presentation on 'why' the cloud for M&E is now important to our industry. Yesterday, I had the please and great surprise to see the whole ADN China team present in Shanghai who came for the AU China event, and we had a 'team' dinner altogether finally, enjoying Shanghai specialties... You don't like Tofu much? you should try... Read more →

Heading for ADN M&E Devdays & Devlab in China

This week and next week, I'll be travelling through China and Japan (next week) for the ADN Devdays & Devlab. I'll start in Shanghai, followed by Beijing. Devdays Devdays is a series of one day event across the world that Autodesk holds once a year where we invite members of the ADN (Autodesk Developer Network) and show the new stuff in the upcoming releases. Under NDA of course. ;-) The whole idea of doing so is to educate development partners... Read more →

Maya on .NET

For those of you who are already on the Maya Feedback Community forum (beta forum), it is probably not really new. But for all others, this is quite a big change - Maya will get a native .NET API for its Windows platform version. So I am proud to announce the Maya .NET API here. The Maya .NET API is a new technology that allows Maya plug-in developers to harness the full power of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. With the Maya... Read more →

ADN M&E DevDays conference over ...

I arrived safely in Las Vegas for AU2012 and finally done with the ADN M&E DevDays conference. It was a lot of work to prepare and even more to deliver. But we had great success, and wonderful deep technical presentations delivered by Autodesk engineers, and external people from multiple Studios on concrete solutions and/or challenges. All presentations where good, but I wanted to highlight here to of them: Let's start by the OpenSubdiv presentation Let's start by the OpenSubdiv presentation... Read more →

Heading for Autodesk University in Las Vegas

AU is right around the corner (it's just so hard to believe!). This week is the last week before Autodesk University. Thousands are heading for Las Vegas during the week end and we will be ready for them with great speakers, classes, technology, Innovation forums, vendors, AUGI Annual meeting, entertainment and more. The ADN Developer Days on the Monday before AU will also be a great place to be to hear about what's coming next. In this final week before... Read more →

Lost in classes

Both my class and Kevin's one at AU aren't yet full. If you haven't registered yet and going to AU, please give a stop to our classes, I promiss you'll not be disapointed. But for this you also need to register to these classes. There’s more detail on the class timing & description here: Using .NET Programming in Autodesk® Maya® Wednesday, Nov 28, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Kevin Vandecar, for the ADN M&E team will also be presenting in... Read more →

ADN Devdays @ AU Las Vegas 2012 - Call for Proposals

We are looking for presenters for the newly added Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) M&E Conference. If you or someone you know would like the opportunity to present, please submit a proposal including the duration of your presentation. The ADN M&E Conference is a great way to share your current API’s, tips & tricks or knowledge about solving production challenges. Please keep in mind, the focus and audience of the ADN conference is developers. Classes need to have a WOW factor... Read more →