CHICAGO, Sept. 11: Autodesk 3D Tour (Dream. Dare. Deliver)

[a_w]

If you haven't registered already, what are you waiting for?!?

 

Register Here: http://www.autodesk.com/mini-sites/melaunchtour2007/register.html

 

Then go here at 3:00pm:

Museum of Contemporary Arts,

MCA Theater

220 East Chicago Avenue

Chicago, Illinois 60611

 

 

So who will be there?

[thierrybauwens@inpix.be]

it's a little bit too far from my country ;-)

[Sketchrender]

Ya autodesk, take note the........... there is more to the market than america................ if your not willing to travel over here, and I understand if its not worth your while, then put up podcasts or video links or something.

A lot of end users are left out.

 

Good morning by the way.

[C.Vestal]

We will be there.

[jophus14]

Damn it, I just found out about this 5 minutes ago.

[a_w]

^ bump

 

Only a few hours left before showtime.

[jophus14]

I didn't find an fee to this event. I know you have to register, but what is the fee?

[Jorbu]

It's free to register. I plan to be there.

[Hazdaz]

NYC is later in the month... for those that went today, would anyone care to comment on how it was?

 

Oh yea, and I agree it is silly that they don't post up a webcam or something of the event, even for those of us that are close, it doesn't mean that we can attend.

[Jorbu]

I attended the design visualization portion of it only. (didn't stay for Games or Film/Postproduction)

 

They showed the latest Autodesk demoreel and showed a video explaining how Max fits in the pipeline with Acad and Revit. It was simple, but for people just thinking about getting into arch. viz it seemed effective.

 

I was there mostly to see the new features of Max 2008. The presentation was well put together and organized and they tried to show the main features of Max which included the new Scene Explorer and realtime shading w/ shadows in the viewport. The speaker showed an animation of a competition for affordable housing and that was the sample project used to explain some of the new tools. They also went through a quick list of fixes aimed at dwg and file linking models from Revit as well as showed how this latest version can handle very large polygon counts. Of course, the hardware was top notch, provided by dell, it was dual quad core, 8GB Ram and not sure the graphics card, but I'm sure it was top of the line NVDIA since they were one of the sponsors. They showed some new features of the selections and adaptive degradation. I'm sure I'm missing some stuff but that's pretty much the highlights.

 

They showed only a little bit about MR, but nothing too new for me, since I use Vray for rendering.

 

There was a good audience and it seemed pretty varied, from teachers to architects and arch viz artists. I got some brochures, some trial software and a t-shirt with Max and Maya logos on it. All in all it was good to see what's coming in 2008.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Jorge