(L-R) Don Brittain, Tom Hudson, Rolf Berteig, Gary Yost, Jack Powell, Dan Silva.ДЈD Studio R4 introduces aspects that foreshadow 3ds MaxвЂ™s heavy plug-in architecture and marks the beginning of the third-party development community surrounding the software.ДЄutodesk renames its multimedia division to Kinetix. The app initially included four modules (Shaper, Lofter, Editor and Material Editor), and then a keyframing module.ДЎ994 Yost Group, 1994. On Halloween, 3D Studio for the disk operating system (DOS) debuts. ThereвЂ™s also this look at the Atari-related origins of 3D Studio (via a tool called вЂSolid StatesвЂ™ that was created for Atari 8-bit machines and written in BASIC). The new project was code-named THUD (after programmer Tom Hudson).ДЇor a fulsome look back at the pre-history of the tool, check out these interviews with Gary Yost and Tom Hudson at CG Press. IвЂ™d be really interested to know which version of 3ds Max you might have first started usingвЂ¦ 1988ДЇilmmaker Gary Yost and his engineering team at the Yost Group create a 3D Studio prototype. Of course, there have been so many key contributors to Max from the very beginning through to today вЂ“ this breakdown is not intended to be an exhaustive account of the softwareвЂ™s development.ДЇollow along as we go back in time with the 3D application.

The 3D modeling, animation and VFX tool has been through a number of incarnations вЂ“ you might also know it as 3D Studio or 3D Studio MAX.ДЄs I did for Nuke, I thought it would be fun to run down a history of 3ds Max in visual form, including both videos and imagery from the past three decades. Do you remember which version you first tried?ДЄutodeskвЂ™s 3ds Max is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

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