'With 3D Studio MAX, Autodesk has done it again: delivered a robust 'platform' for 3D innovation,' said Bill Caffery, vice president of the Advanced Technologies Groups at Gartner Group, a Stamford, Connecticut-based market research firm. The product has previously been available only for MS-DOS(R), with the 3D Studio rendering engine also available for Silicon Graphics workstations. The 3D Studio MAX software is a revolutionary addition to the 3D Studio(R) product line, the most popular solution for professional 3D modeling, rendering and animation.

3D Studio MAX on Windows NT should have an 'AutoCAD effect' on the high-end 3D graphics and animation market: level the playing field in every respect except price, where we will win hands down.' 'To date, our 3D Studio product line has been tremendously successful, garnering nearly half of the entire worldwide market for professional 3D animation, on a relatively old operating system and modest hardware. 'In 1990s, the combination of 386/486-based PCs and AutoCAD let Autodesk overtake IBM and become the global leader in design software, with a desktop product,' said Carol Bartz, President and CEO of Autodesk, Inc. 3D Studio MAX and Character Studio software is shipping pricing information is available. In addition, Autodesk previewed the first 3D Studio MAX plug-in, a sophisticated application for animating two-legged skinned characters, called Biped (part of Character Studio). Featuring an all-new real-time interface, support for graphics hardware acceleration and multiprocessor systems, and the first seamlessly extensible architecture in its market, 3D Studio MAX will deliver full workstation-class performance and functionality to the desktop. debuted 3D Studio MAX(TM), a completely re-architected, Windows NT(TM) version of the world's leading professional 3D animation software.

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