LD Assistant 08.5 – People Walking and Dancing in Real-time!
Easily integrate actors into your designs and see them come alive in real-time as you walk through your creation, while you control the lighting with your console. Have audio and video all playing back at the same time… in real-time.
Click below to see people dancing
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Featured Designer – Matt Timmer
Matt Timmer: As the Director of Audio Visuals at Bacara Resort & Spa – Santa Barbara, California, Matt keeps it real for SWANK AV by creating the wall sconces and chandeliers for his ball rooms. Matt’s CAD background stems from his college days where he was trained in another CAD program, but he likes LD Assistant for its ease of use. “LD Assistant has all the tools to make my job easier, unlike other programs I’ve used in the past,” says Matt. “With the real-time walkthrough, I can give my clients a real feel of what the event is going to look and feel like before they set one foot into the room.”
Industry News
• Autodesk at NAB 2009 - Autodesk to Showed New Versions of Visual Effects Systems for Film and TV and to Launch Flare – Hot Addition to the Product Line-up.
• Autodesk Kynapse Middleware Licensed for America’s Army 3 Computer Game – “Autodesk Kynapse will allow us to enhance game play for America’s Army 3 in several ways,” explained Michael Barnett, chief engineer for the America’s Army titles.
• Autodesk Introduces Smoke 2010 – Autodesk tools have been used on some of this year’s highest profile entertainment projects, including the TV shows “NCIS,” “Bones,” “Prison Break,” “Smallville” and “Dexter”; as well as blockbuster movies such as “Milk,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Changeling,” “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. The software was also used to help shape the Super Bowl commercials Pepsi “Pass” and “Refresh,” General Electric “Scarecrow” and Pedigree “Crazy Pets.”
• Autodesk Partners with Clinton Climate Initiative to Provide Technology to Help Build More Sustainable Cities -
Autodesk is joining CCI and Microsoft Corporation to help sponsor the Project Two Degrees initiative. The sponsors, working with Project Two Degrees stakeholders–including ICLEI, Ascentium Corporation, and the Center for Neighborhood Technology–are developing the Project Two Degrees emissions tracking software. The project’s Web-based software enables cities to calculate the carbon footprint of both municipal operations and the communities they service in a uniform way.
• NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 2.2 Released – This latest release supports several significant new features that deliver a major leap forward in getting the most performance out of NVIDIA’s massively parallel CUDA-enabled GPUs.
