Autodesk® 3ds Max® is a highly customizable and scalable 3D modeling, animation and rendering solution. 3ds Max provides immediate, highly compatible, out-of-the-box access to a wide range of 3D functionalities for digital artists working in film effects, allowing facilities to:

• Quickly ramp up production pipelines, enabling you to deliver stunning results on time and on budget
• Create 3D animatics for previsualization purposes
• Model, animate, and light realistic characters and environments
• Draw from a large third-party development community

Autodesk 3ds Max helps artists work with complex scenes easier by providing:

• Dramatic performance, in such areas as viewport interaction, selection, and material assignment
• An artist-friendly UI and scene management features Mapping and animation toolsets which offer artists UV spline mapping and enhanced biped and quadruped tools to speed up character animation
• Extensive key features for the film industry, including scene management, flexible animation tools, and artist-friendly modeling
• Access to the widest range of renderers available to any 3D package