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Autodesk VIZ 2008
Conceptual Design
•Quickly mock up concepts (massing and stacking studies), model complex forms, and import them to AutoCAD Architecture or Revit Architecture to build a design
Contextual Studies
•Create physically accurate lighting, sun, and shadow studies
•Visualize site studies to meet planning requirements
•Establish context for a design by simulating textures and materials
•Aggregate real-world content to bring a design to life through context
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High-Value Animation
•Provide a rich narrative context with cinematic-quality animation
Autodeskฎ VIZ 2008 software is the ideal 3D visualization companion for AutoCADฎ, AutoCADฎ Architecture, and Revitฎ software users. Visually inform a design concept by providing a rich visual context with the powerful modeling, animation, lightning, and rendering tools in VIZ 2008.
Seeing Is Believing
Bring a design to life by creating photoreal still and animated sequences to
•Visualize issues during schematic design and design development
•Accelerate approvals for design reviews, win competitions, and build stunning marketing presentations
Key talking points to show the value Autodesk VIZ 2008 brings to architectural design:

Seeing Is Believing
•Autodeskฎ VIZ 2008 software is the ideal 3D visualization companion for AutoCADฎ AutoCADฎ Architecture, and Revitฎ software users. Visually inform a design concept by providing a rich visual context with the powerful modeling, animation, lightning, and rendering tools in VIZ 2008.

Where does Autodesk VIZ fit into the architectural design process?
•Autodesk VIZ is used extensively as a complement to AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, and Revitฎ Architecture software during the schematic design and design development phases of a project for Conceptual Design and Contextual Studies, as well as a visualization tool to create stunning images and high-value narrative animated sequences for Marketing and Client presentations.

•Conceptual Design and Form Making
•Quickly mock up concepts (massing and stacking studies), model complex forms, and import them to AutoCAD Architecture or Revit Architecture to build a design.

•Contextual Studies
•Create physically accurate lighting, sun, and shadow studies
•Visualize site studies to meet planning requirements
•Establish context for a design by simulating textures and materials
•Aggregate real-world content to bring the design to life through context

The rich tool set of VIZ 2008 helps improve the design process
•The rich modeling, animation, lighting and rendering toolset of Autodesk VIZ is used to evolve a design concept by developing a rich visual context that visually informs the design process.
•Industry-standard polygonal modeling tools enable architects to explore forms, create complex shapes, and rapidly prototype their ideas in a fluid manner.
•Lighting, rendering, and texturing tools give context to a design. The more designers understand the relationship of their design to light, material properties, and how users will interact with it, the more they can use this information to improve the design.
•Images and animations are powerful methods of communicating why a design is the way it is. Animation tools in VIZ 2008 empower designers and architects to create high-value animation to visually communicate design intent through narrative. The act of transporting a client  on a virtual trip through their design can be an extremely moving experience!
•Tight interoperability with AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, and Revit Architecture simplifies the design process through efficient data exchange.
•Tight, iterative workflows help maintain the sense of the design and its impact in a coherent manner.

The rich 3D toolset in VIZ 2008 derived from Media & Entertainment’s heritage in the film, video, and games industries heightens the narrative experience of design visualizations and adds engaging emotional context to…

•Create,
•Communicate, and
•Persuade