At the time of merging Alias and Wavefront were working on next Generation Software which had taken Macintosh product “Alias Sketch”. In 1990’s Hollywood movies used these combination tools for modelling, 3D animation, Rendering from Alias, Softimage and Photorealistic Render Man respectively for many movies like Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, The Abyss etc. All these are purchased by Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) and produced one single source code. MAYA was developed by the culmination of three line i.e., Advanced Visualizer of Wave front, Thomson Digital Image (TDI) explore and Power Animator of Alias. The main products of Autodesk for entertainment and media are Maya, 3DS Max, Flame, Softimage, Discreet Smoke etc., which also won Academy Awards. Autodesk started its Media and Entertainment Division in 1999 after the merging of Kinetix and Alias which is developer of 3D graphics technology also acquired Softimage brand from AVID. Products of Autodesk: – Autodesk Platform Solutions and Emerging Business division developed many other products like AutoCAD LT, AutoCAD Freestyle, Geospatial solutions, Plant solutions etc. Autodesk also provided digital media creation management software for media industry for the purpose of visual effects, editing, animation, gaming, colour grading etc. By adding to this Autodesk developed a Digital Prototyping Solutions to simulate, visualize and analyze real-world performance in building information modelling. This application will be used in many industries like TV, FILM, Gaming, Architectural and Planning.Īutodesk is a multinational corporation in San Rafael, California, United States Of America which focused on 2D and 3D designing software products for Multi-Media, Engineering, Manufacturing, Planning, Architecture etc., which was established in the year of 1982 by Carl Bass founder, president and CEO, John Walker the co-author of AutoCAD (earlier Architectural Desktop) software which is a flagship of Autodesk and other twelve products. This product was developed by Media and Entertainment division (formerly Alias) of Autodesk in Toronto. It was named after the word MAYA a Sanskrit which means an Illusion. MAYA is an application software which is used for 3D designing in different modules like modelling, rigging, texturing, animation, rendering, match moving, compositing and visual effects.