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Ken Pimentel

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Ken Pimentel is the Director of Visual Communication Solutions within Autodesk's Media & Entertainment division, responsible for guiding 3ds Max, Project Newport, Mudbox, ImageModeler, Stitcher and FBX solutions. Ken holds a BS of Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from the University of California at Davis and is the coauthor of the book "Virtual Reality: Through the New Looking Glass.

Mental Ray - Multi-Pixel Filtering Comparison

Mystery guest coming soon!

We'll have a "mystery guest" coming to this blog in the next few days. This person, probably more so than anyone, is associated with "3ds Max". Plus, some comments on our recent customer visits in NY.

Posted: Mar 05, 2009
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Mental Ray - Multi-Pixel Filtering Comparison

3ds Max Design 2010: Sneak Peek: flickerless animations with mental ray

Here's how to get rid of those nasty flickers when rendering animations with mental ray. Rendering guru, Pierre-Felix Breton, takes us on a tour.

Posted: Feb 18, 2009
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Views: 11518
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The CAT is back!

Just have to show you this video that one of the AEs did that shows all of the CAT presets in action with the Review 3 viewport of 3ds Max 2010.

Posted: Feb 14, 2009
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3ds Max Design 2010: improved DWG interop

We improved our DWG importer/exporter in a small but significant way when it comess to moving DWG data back and forth to AutoCAD and Revit.

Posted: Feb 12, 2009
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3ds Max Design 2010: xView

Here's an interesting new feature for debugging problems with meshes. One of our AE's shows some results of using it.

Posted: Feb 10, 2009
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Announcement: 3ds Max Design 2010!

We can finally declare to the world that the next and greatest version of 3ds Max officially exists and we're about to reveal roughly 350 new features to the public. This is the biggest and baddest of them all! Of…

Posted: Feb 06, 2009
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