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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 →

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 →

Taking a break

I’m up in the USA enjoying 3 weeks of hiking in the National Parks, and unfortunaly will not have any computer with me to play with programing. I'll start at Yellowstone for a week, and will then go south through Zion, Bryce, Arches, Grand Canyon, and few others... The last time, I went to Zion and Bryce it was at my honeymoon trip 20 years ago. I should be back in August and post here again. This one is real... Read more →

US, M&E and EMEA team meeting

The last month was unfortunately a lot of travels, and I neglited the blog a bit - sorry for this - I'll try to do that better next year. I have been travelling in the USA and Canada for our annual team meetings, and reviews, etc... too much meetings for me to be honest, but required. Last week I spent my time in Brest and Le Conquet (Konk Leon in Breton) with the European team. Brest is the western-most point... 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 →

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 →

Heading for London

I have a couple of posts, presentations, projects to finish up before going to AU in a couple of weeks, but this week I am travelling to London to visit DNeg and work with these folks on improving their in-house plug-ins and workfloa. DNeg is The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel, The Bourne Legacy, Skyfall, Snow White and the Huntsman, Rush, Battleship, Total Recall maker. I have to admit have seen them all :) That will be a very... Read more →

Registration open for AU 2012

I registered for AU 2012, a week ago as the AU site was opened for employees for testing. It is now open for anyone to register to attend and receive an early bird discount of $500 (before October 15). If you’re interested in seeing what classes are scheduled for this year’s AU – which will be held from Nov 27-29 in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas – you can browse the class catalog online. Here are the classes I’m... Read more →