Inspired by the gaming industry, Royal HaskoningDHV introduced augmented reality (AR) to engineering consultancy by bringing to life the firm’s projects through Microsoft HoloLens showcases. An early example is Heerlen Railway Station (see https://bit.ly/2xySKFw). Aspiring to stay at the forefront of digital engineering, we since developed various AR applications to let both engineering consultants and relevant stakeholders truly interact with holograms. Highlights include shared-view solutions to work from different locations, holographic libraries from which to select objects and solutions, and synchronization solutions to push designs back to Revit software. Our industry talk will aim to provide an inspiring vision on the digital future of architecture, engineering, and construction; the role of AR in realizing digital twins; and valuable lessons from our AR applications development agenda.

Are you interested in virtual reality (VR) but think the cost of entry is too high? Think again! With a $20 Google Cardboard headset, you can use VR to immerse your clients in your design. This lab will take you through several workflows for transitioning from Revit software to Google Cardboard, including using A360 cloud rendering through to discussing more advanced options, such as embedding stereoscopic images in your website. Find out all you need to know to get started in virtual reality. This session features Revit and A360. AIA Approved

This class introduces new concepts and tools to industry leaders and projects leaders to cope with technology advancement. The class is based on Sustainable and Adaptive Leadership Model developed by the instructor and published globally. How to lead in the era of digital transformation and disruptive innovation. What is the impact of knowledge and Knowledge Management on making business succeed, building more robust teams and enforce adaptability among all employees. Leadership practice is required at all levels, but most importantly, effective leadership, dynamic cultural intelligence and centering techniques play a significant role in developing a sustainable leadership mindset. The class employs concepts from Adaptive Leadership Model, Cultural Intelligence and Aikido to prepare leaders to their next step and help them confidently manage digital transformation and knowledge.

The reinforced concrete industry needs to find an easy-to-apply and complete Building Information Modeling (BIM)-ready fabrication workflow to link together the engineers, contractors, and fabricators. The objective is to streamline the BIM workflow to make this communication possible and provide huge productivity and safety ratio improvements. Come and see how GRAITEC’s 3D rebar design tools and Revit software and Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform can help you produce 3D rebar ready for fabrication, as well as enable collaboration—including drawings, bar schedules, and quantities, published to the Autodesk 360 cloud system.

In this class, we present tried and tested methods for creating large-scale environments out of modular pieces. These tricks can help you populate your scenes with geometry and dress your shots quickly. Our case study is a 4-minute short film that used a single12 foot x 12 foot modular set to bring an entire story to life.

Autodesk 3ds Max software has more out-of-the-box rendering options than any other digital content creation (DCC) software available today. In this class, Autodesk Senior Technical Specialist Gary M. Davis explores these different solutions and examines when and why users might choose to use the mental ray®, NVIDIA® iRay®, and Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2012 Quicksilver and Scanline rendering engines. The class also explores uses that combine multiple renderers for more complex workflows.

The Autodesk Community helps users connect with others in their industry to share ideas, learn about new design techniques and tools, and make new professional connections. With the Autodesk Forums, Autodesk Knowledge Network, Autodesk Blogs, user blogs and many social media sites, this community can be a great tool for helping you become more successful in your career. This session will focus on the value of this powerful resource to users in any industry, and across the spectrum of Autodesk products. It will also present some tips on how to get the most value from the community. So, join us for a fun, enlightening and interactive session presented by the Autodesk Community and your Expert Elites.

This course will introduce a workflow of live Building Information Modeling (BIM) coordination using BIM 360 Glue software and Navisworks software on a megaproject. How do you remove the BIM manager’s published NWD file as the bottleneck to coordination? What do you do when your model is too large to open in BIM 360 Glue software? In this workflow, you will see how to set up a project in BIM 360 Glue software, run coordination meetings in Navisworks software, and encourage live coordination among trades in between meetings. This workflow will enable you to maximize field-staff contributions, as well as open more-transparent and more-efficient communication with the design team. This session features BIM 360 Glue and BIM 360 Glue. AIA Approved

It’s hard to escape the influence of visual effects in today’s media, and today’s top visualization shops are blurring the lines between feature film / television work and traditional architectural visualization (arch viz) work. Considering the common toolset used in both fields, it can be advantageous for visualization artists working in the architecture, engineering, and construction market to employ workflows developed in the entertainment field—not only from an efficiency standpoint, but also potentially from an aesthetic standpoint. Employing some of the media and entertainment approaches can inject an otherwise unremarkable arch viz animation with more visual interest, leading to investor or sales videos that are more compelling. In this class we will examine some production-tested approaches using both old and new tools in 3ds Max software to create things like large crowds of people and animated foliage, as well as workflows used for working with large scene files.

These days, the commonplace use of visual effects (VFX) in movies has raised audience expectations in terms of VFX quality, and has driven television productions to step up both the quantity and quality of VFX for almost every scripted television series. Due to the nature of television schedules and budgets, VFX artists share more in common than just similar toolsets with their colleagues in the architectural visualization industry; hence, efficient workflows in one field can be modified to benefit the other. Kim Lee (senior CG generalist from FuseFX New York) will present various case studies from a variety of current television series, showing how tools like 3ds Max software are used to create high-quality VFX, quickly and efficiently. Lee will show how the artists at FuseFX capitalize on capabilities like photogrammetry scanning, and MAXScript and python scripting—along with various 3ds Max software tools and plug-ins—to create award-winning VFX for many of the most popular shows. This session features 3ds Max.

Imagine that it is the year 2025 and the world of technology is anew: quantum computing is now common, 3D printing has become a cheap commodity, biological programming has redefined the concept of life, and sensors of every type are embedded in almost every manufactured product, fulfilling the promise of the Internet of things. But in 2025, the world continues to churn. Economies on every continent have gone bankrupt. Massive corporations have fallen, replaced by rapidly growing startups—and the average global temperature has risen 1.2°C. Join us to see how several leading designers have applied exponentially growing technologies to create the products the world now wants and needs. This session features Brian David Johnson, Intel futurist and author; Alvise Simondetti, ARUP Futures; Franz von Holzhausen, head of Design, Tesla Motors; Michael Gough, VP Experience Design, Adobe; Rex Gringon, head of Animation, Dreamworks; Daniel Kraft, Singularity University chair; and Trevor Haldenby, founder, Byologyc. You will see state-of-the-art cars, robots, medical equipment, running shoes, games, and movies, as well as the way these creations were designed and fabricated. You just might be surprised how unexpected the future may be.

You think technology is great, but sometimes those you’re training clearly do not. Designed for software trainers and educators, attendees of this workshop will gain insight into pedagogical strategies aimed at helping students navigate the constantly changing—and sometimes frustrating—process of learning software. The presenter will outline teaching approaches that have been shown to increase motivation, including how to help learners bring autonomy, competency, and value to their learning. The presenter will share examples of how to practically integrate innovative teaching practices into both short software workshops and semester-long college courses, as well as provide example handouts aimed at helping students retain information.

Everything from walking and running to quadrupeds and bipeds relies on a few basic principles. Many artists get these principles wrong! In this class, I speed through the different cycle types and demonstrate the proper use of timing, posing, and space to get your cycles pixel-perfect and frame accurate.

This is an intensive class about animating a human face. You learn how to see a face: its form and structure and its features when a person talks, feels, and expresses. We cover anatomy and muscle behavior, and we explore what's really going on underneath a face when that face is showing emotion. We show examples of great facial acting and the psychology behind this acting in making human characters come alive. Although this is a class that specializes in faces, the subject matter is a very large part of how a CG artist can become a master animator and actor. This class is also software agnostic. Although we demonstrate with Maya® software, we are focusing on the art and techniques of character facial animation that work whether your platform is Maya, 3ds Max®, or Autodesk® Softimage® software.

Procedural techniques for embellishing designs with entourage can save you time by enabling you to more quickly experiment and iterate on your visualization. In this session you will learn new tools and techniques for creating and placing content procedurally in 3ds Max 2016 software. We will present a free set of procedural tools created using the Max Creation Graph editor in 3ds Max software. You will learn how we created these tools using Max Creation Graph and how you can modify them using the Max Creation Graph node editor to address your custom visualization needs. The architect of Max Creation Graph—Christopher Diggins—and the product designer—Martin Coven—will offer this class.

From its humble beginnings more than 25 years ago, 3ds Max software has emerged as extraordinarily popular software for the creation of feature films and episodic television shows—from award-winning AAA to indie games and striking, awe-inspiring design visualizations. As your needs of those industries continue to evolve and blur, 3ds Max software continues to develop with you. In this brief, roundtable discussion, the 3ds Max Development Team will share a bit of its history, look at the current state of 3ds Max software, and take a glimpse into its future. Your input and feedback will enrich the conversation and drive the discussion. This session features 3ds Max.

Learn how to create smooth and believable camera animation using different techniques, how to create simple camera rigs to have more control over the camera movements, and how to understand the curve editor and camera parameters to modify the timing and movements.

The traditional railroad industry is lagging behind the building industry in terms of innovative technology. One reason could be that there's a lack of good Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools. This presentation will take you on a journey through the design process in large railroad projects to show what we're doing and how we're pushing things further with the help of InfraWorks software and Unreal Engine. We will cover collaboration and live feed, involving the information flow and efficient collaboration between hundreds of people per project. We'll also cover concurrent engineering and model utilization to the full extent with virtual reality (VR) enabled by Unreal Engine. This is project delivery reinvented. What if we turned things upside down and delivered a game instead of a model? We'll remove the "gimmick" factor from VR and focus on real value. Join our session and you will be blown away.

Back by popular demand—and intended for emerging users of 3ds Max software and Maya software—this session will explore the world of image-based lighting for rendering images using high dynamic range (HDR) maps and the mental ray, NVIDIA iray, and V-Ray rendering engines. We'll begin with the process of capturing the existing real-world environment lighting. From there we'll see the steps involved in creating HDR panoramic image maps that are used within 3ds Max software and Maya software for photorealistic scene lighting. Finally, we'll employ camera techniques to create very real images, and we'll combine computer graphics and real photographs for completely believable and realistic final imagery.

Efficient collaboration is very important for the success of a building project. How could gaming and cloud technologies help to reach it? In this lecture we explain how to use Revizto in life cycle of a building, thereby avoiding misunderstandings. You will learn how to turn your architectural designs from Revit, AutoCAD and other software into navigable 3D environment in few minutes, how to share it with the team through the cloud and open it on any device including iPad. We'll show you how to collaborate effectively with your teammates and clients, using handy real-time tools such as markers and camera sharing. Revizto doesn't require serious set of skills to learn it.