Autodesk redesigns software bundles

On 31 July Autodesk will cease selling Design and Creation Suites, and then from 1 August off er a news election of software bundles. The new Industry Collections, titled Architecture, Engineering and Construction; Product Design; and Media and Entertainment are aimed at providing end users with greater flexibility and better value. It marks the next phase in Autodesk’s transition away from Cloud services expanded Extra cloud services are included with Industry Collections. Character Generator, Re Cap 360 Pro, rendering in A360 plus25GB of storage are provided with the Media and Entertainment Industry Collection. When you subscribe to a collection with multi-user access, you will be able to grant shared access to cloud services for three named users.software purchases as each collection will now be available as monthly, quarterly, annual and multi-year subscriptions.The all-encompassing Media and Entertainment collection removes the previous choice of three different editions by bundling together Maya, 3dsMax, Motion Builder and Mud box and includes additional cloud services and storage. This makes it comparable to the Entertainment Creation Suites ’Ultimate Edition minus Soft image, which was discontinued in 2014 but continued to be offered in the Design and Creation Suites. Existing Design and Creation Suite customers will receive support and use of their Suite, plus the option to switch over from October if already a subscriber.Currently prices have only been released for single-user annual subscriptions, with the Media and Entertainment collection costing £1,630 per year excluding VAT. Multi-user access will be priced around 30 per cent more than single-user access for annual and multi-year lengths.