Remedy has selected Autodesk for its Alan Wake

4news.it: Alan Wake is a psychological action thriller game developed by Remedy Entertainment exclusively on Xbox 360. Today, through an official note, informs us that arrangements have been professional tools 3DS Max, MotionBuilder and Mudbox Autodesk to design, model and to animate objects and characters of the title.

[JOLLY1]

Who the heck would they go with instead? I love 3ds Max 2011!

[iNcRiMiNaTi]

3ds Max is cool but i prefer Maya and Zbrush only because I'm used to the interface better

[Timesplitter14]

You're right. I think ZBrush is even more used than Mudbox

[Unbiased1]

yeah i also like that thing...

[The Lazy One]

Maya is made by autodesk too. They're phasing it into a single product soon.

Zbrush is a sculpting and painting tool and isn't that great for animation or model optimizing.

[The Lazy One]

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I think it would be awesome if a AAA studio used it just because it would be awesomely hilarious to pull off something great with an open source product.

[SilverSlug]

No issues here.

[The real killer]

Is Remedy buy out by Microsoft? it looks like it.
Alan Wake is a great game, but it did not acrhieve the goal what they hope so and still develop for the 360.

Yes, it looks like MS give Remedy allot of money again.

[jay2]

No, Remedy is still indipentant, MS just funded A.W, that's why it wasn't Multi-format.

[ExitToExisT]

well of course they'll use 3ds max. only maya is an option and 3ds max is better

[jerethdagryphon]

autodesk owns 3ds
these days i mean in the finacial sense

the only other options are cinema4d and ......cant thing clearly

[Timesplitter14]

That's not really big news. 3DS Max is the most used 3D modeling package in the video games and movie industry, but ESPECIALLY in the videogames industry.

Maya (which is also from Autodesk) has a fair share and Lightwave is used in some japanese studios, but that's about it.

I personally use Blender for my own game project because it can do just about anything 3DS Max can do as far as game models are concerned, and I also think 3500$ is quite a revolting price tag when you can have almost the same thing for free.

[Unicron]

Weird, from my experience more people use Maya.

[dragonelite]

Dont kojipro use modo could have sworn to read about it on cgtalk interview.

[Timesplitter14]

That's weird. I thought modo didn't support animation?

Or maybe that was just a long time ago?

[dragonelite]

Maybe only for modeling.
I know some people that like to model in max and animate in maya or vice versa. There motto was if i have both why not use them both to their strength.

[ScubaSteve1]

autodesk owns both maya and 3ds max

[Xi]

From what I hear autodesk 3dsm and xsi seem to the most popular tools for modeling then animation.