Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software provide powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing that enable artists and designers to more quickly ramp up for production. The two versions share core technology and features, but offer differentiated experiences and specialized toolsets for game developers, visual effects artists, and graphic designers on the one hand, and architects, designers, engineers, and visualization specialists on the other.

3ds MAX 2011 New Features :

• Slate, a new node-based material editor, enables you to more easily visualize and edit material component relationships.

• Quicksilver hardware renderer enables you to create high-fidelity pre-visualizations, animatics, and games-related marketing materials in less time.

• Graphite modeling and Viewport Canvas tools help accelerate modeling and texturing tasks.

• The new 3ds Max Composite feature offers high-performance, HDR-capable compositing tools and is based on technology from Autodesk® Toxik® software.

• 3ds Max 2010-compatible format enables you to save scene files to help manage the transition to 3ds Max 2011.