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DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ:DWA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks are integrating Autodesk Mudbox software into their Linux-based production pipelines. Autodesk Consulting’s custom development team worked collaboratively with teams at Imageworks and DreamWorks to port the digital sculpting and texture painting software to the Linux platform. Mudbox for Linux is available through Autodesk Consulting services…

Focus Features’ animated, action-packed adventure “9″, from director Shane Acker and producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, spotlights animation from Starz Animation Toronto using Autodesk, Inc.’s Autodesk Maya and Autodesk Mudbox 3D software.

Autodesk, Inc. salutes the hundreds of artists worldwide who collectively created close to 1,500 visual effects shots for this summer’s action-packed movie “G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra.”

Autodesk and Avid Technology, announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Autodesk to acquire substantially all of the assets of Avid’s Softimage business unit for approximately $35 million.