Project Geppetto for 3ds Max 2013 / 3ds Max Design 2013 Now Available

Re-animator is a 1985 movie that I really enjoyed. The story features a dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend who become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus. I watched it by renting a VHS tape from a local video store! Wow - those days are gone.

Project Geppetto is our free technology preview for easily adding realistic crowds to 3ds Max scenes. Project Geppetto helps bring your designs to life. Shaan Hurley had some real fun with this one when he "extended" its capabilities to create crowds of Autodesk Reality Capture VP Brian Mathews (see Shaan's blog article).

The other day I got an update from the Project Geppetto team. In turn I updated the Autodesk Labs site.

// Learn more about Project Geppetto on Autodesk Labs

This update includes:

• Support for Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 (Update 3) and Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2013 (Update 3)
• Inclusion of the Evolver technology
• Extension of the technology preview period until January 15, 2013.

Industry Marketing Manager, Chrysoulla Srabian, shared some screen shots.

1. Create Flows
   

2. Define Idle Areas
   

3. Add People
   

4. View as Stick Figures
   

5. View Detailed People
   

6. Close Up
   

To date users have really enjoyed working with Project Geppetto and have provided great feedback on how to incorporate improvements like Evolver. Keep it up at [email protected].

Re-animation is alive in the lab.