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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 Devkit 2018 is on the way

This is a short update regarding the Maya 2018 devkit. As-is typical for the devkit, it can take a few days to get it posted after our Maya product release. We are awaiting the official release from engineering and they have told us it should be ready in the next few days. Once we receive it, we will get it posted ASAP. Please check back here for the latest information. Thank you for your patience. Read more →

Recent new releases (Nov. 2016)

It’s really a big month for Autodesk M&E customers and partners. Why do I say that? Here are the new versions of products that were just released within this month: Autodesk Stingray 1.6 version. Stingray 1.6 is now available for download via your Autodesk Account, Autodesk Knowledge Network, and Steam. For more information about this update version, please refer to the Stingray V1.6 Release Notes in the online documentation. Stingray 1.6 also includes the FBX SDK 2017.1 security update. Autodesk... Read more →

New API changes for Maya 2017 & MotionBuilder 2017

A couple of months ago, we released Maya 2016 Extension 2 and some people have asked us about Maya 2017 & MotionBuilder 2017. Now, they are here! Maya 2017 & MotionBuilder 2017 have been announced on July 26, 2016, during SIGGRAPH event. As usual, I’d like to highlight some changes/improvements on the API side. Maya API Changes: There are many API improvements in Maya 2017, especially for the Rendering feature. For all the details about API changes/improvements between Maya 2016... 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 →

Day on Intel buzz workshop

On October 28. Zhong and I attended a game workshop hosted by Intel in Shanghai. The show is mainly for the indie gaming developers and Html5. First, Intel demonstrated their XDK, which is pretty impressive for cross-platform Html5 development. It is based on Apache Cordova and has an optimized game browser: crosswalk. The improvement of crosswalk is significant, its performance is closing to the native games. Using Html5 to develop mobile games or apps becomes promising. Later, Cocos studio presented... 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 →

Technical Evangelist Intern WANTED.

Are you currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s in Computer science or a discipline with a strong computing component? Are you looking for a life changing Internship experience during your summer? Look no more, Autodesk Developer Network is looking for an enthusiastic intern evangelist for this summer in the Bay Area. If you’re excited by design, and by working with 3D on the web then keep reading. You will start by learning the API and developing a plan for writing... 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 →

Feeling Foolish

The ADN blog posts of April 1st were the result of the second year of our team's internal April Fools' Challenge, where we have a little friendly competition to see who can post the 'best' April Fools' article. Of course, different people like different kinds of humor, so there's never really just one 'best'. (We try to avoid posting serious articles on April 1st in case someone thinks we're joking when we're not, but one sometimes slips through due to... Read more →

3D printing: Second industrial revolution is under way

The technology is decades old, but now there’s an ecosystem in place and the technology is becoming mature. At its beginning I was really skeptical about that technology, but I recently read couple of articles changing my minds. I also met colleagues in our annual team meeting the last few days who said that most of 2d printers are now affordable and people starting to use them more frequently. So I wanted to share with you my latest findings... But... 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 →

Distributing Maya Apps - Porthaton is around the corner

Following this announcement. Here is an post from a colleague of mine Vjaya Prakash who is based in India (Bangalore) and mainly support the Maya API. People who wants to distribute their Apps which is going to be used by Maya users, they have to follow some semantics. You can watch the video of how to install sample apps and how to use those apps inside Maya here. If you are still thinking about where to start please see here.... Read more →

Announcing the Autodesk Exchange Apps Portathon – and an opportunity to receive US$100 per app published!

We are excited to announce the inaugural Autodesk® Exchange Apps Portathon – a 48 hour virtual web based coding “festival”. The Exchange Apps Portathon is a community event where you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with Autodesk engineers in real time and meet hundreds of other Autodesk software partners from around the world. It is all designed to help you get your apps ready and published on Autodesk Exchange Apps. The Portathon will run for 48 hours, starting from... 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 →

Call for proposals: Autodesk University 2013

As many of you will now be aware, the call for proposals for AU 2013 is now open and will remain so until May 19th. It’s always great to have people presenting fresh ideas at the conference, so think about whether you have something to share with fellow Autodesk customers/partners/developers and submit a proposal or two! I'll follow-up in a few weeks with another call for presentation but for our ADN DevDays which will run just before AU (December 2nd)... Read more →

Kinect, leapMotion, MoCap, Googles ... all legacy tools !!!

On January 2011, Microsoft came out with a revolutionary device named Kinect. While Microsoft made it for their Xbox, many people used the Kinect to give computers eyes, ears, and the capacity to interact naturally with people by simply gesturing and speaking. A lot of developers were really enthusiast to deliver new tools despite the limitation of that device in terms of speed and accuracy. However seeing the unexpected success and adoption by both developers and consumers. Microsoft decided to... 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 →

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 →

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 →