[ December 2, 2010; 5:00 pm; ] If you are in the Montreal area on Thursday December 2, come and celebrate the 20th anniversary of 3ds max at the Autodesk headquarters.

Free drinks and nibbles will be served while you watch great presentations from Eidos Montreal and the creator of the famous Iron Baby. Later on the Siggraph Electronic theater will also be [...]

[ September 21, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] From IGDA Montreal (thanks @jgoldfin_adsk):
Event Details:

When: Tuesday, September 21st – 6:30pm doors/food/drinks open | 7:30pm presentation begins
What: IGDA-Montreal Presentation Night
Where: Autodesk, 10 Duke Street (corner de la Commune)
Why: Matt Hooper discusses id’s Rage/Tech5
Who: All game developers, and those related to the game industry
Entry: free for IGDA members; $5 for [...]

Note: Most (if not all) of the Autodesk middleware developers are based in Montreal.
 
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., September 1, 2010 — Korean game developers MAIET Entertainment and WeMade Entertainment have both licensed Autodesk Kynapse artificial intelligence (AI) middleware for their respective upcoming titles, "GunZ2: The Second Duel" and a new MMORPG, currently codenamed "LF." The studios [...]

Last week, I had a chance to visit Autodesk ME (in Montreal’s Old Port). They create professional art tools (for games and architechture, among others), including the popular Maya, Softimage, 3ds Max and other like Inferno, Flame, Flare, Flint, Smoke, Lustre, Backdraft, and Toxik.
It looks like some of their tools have recently become free [...]

CG Con’s “The White Conference” is coming to Montreal in a few days, April 23rd – 25th (see our previous post).
Again here is the list of speakers.
 
Here is your chance to win one of our two passes for the event (valued at $299 each).
How to win? You might be randomly chosen if you:

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[ April 19, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] Trouvé sur SIGGRAPH Montreal (via Centre NAD):   Cette soirée est l’occasion pour la communauté graphique montréalaise de revoir les accomplissements de l’année 2009. Plusieurs courtes présentations vous permettront de découvrir l’étendue et la variété des résultats produits par la communauté graphique montréalaise en 2009.  Voici l’horaire de la soirée [...]

Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 modeling, animation and rendering software has received the 2009 Front Line Award for Best Art Tool from Game Developer magazine. Autodesk Mudbox 2009 digital sculpting and texture painting software was a finalist in the same category.
The annual Front Line awards recognize the best tools in the game industry, as [...]

From Autodesk:
Autodesk, Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM visualization software products and related assets. The products were purchased from 3AM Solutions, a UK-based privately owned technology company that develops visualization software for civil infrastructure. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM technology [...]