Bring breathtaking scenes and characters to life for film, TV, and games

The Media & Entertainment Collection is the simplest way to access CG creation tools for your whole workflow. One subscription gives you everything you need to sketch, model, rig, animate, create FX, light, and render your projects, from first draft to final frames.

Products in the Media & Entertainment Collection include Maya, 3ds Max, Arnold (with the option of getting a 5-pack; see next FAQ), MotionBuilder, Mudbox, SketchBook, Character Generator, ReCap Pro, and Autodesk Rendering.

You can also run Bifrost for Maya on up to 15 machines with each collection license, enabling you to process Bifrost-created simulations on a compute farm. Bifrost for Maya is a visual programming environment for creating complex effects.

If you purchase the Media & Entertainment Collection online (via this page), you get a single-user Arnold license, which you can use on up to 5 separate machines. If you purchase a collection subscription from a reseller, you have the choice between receiving an Arnold single-user license or a 5-pack of Arnold multi-user licenses. The option to get multi-user licenses in place of a single-user license is only available if you buy from a reseller and doesn’t apply if you purchase online.

The price of an annual Media & Entertainment Collection subscription is and the price of a monthly Media & Entertainment Collection subscription is . The price of a 3-year Media & Entertainment Collection subscription is .

You can download a free 30-day trial of any software—you can try multiple products simultaneously—included in the Media & Entertainment Collection. Use at least a 10 Mbps Internet connection and make sure you have enough space on your hard drive as trials are typically large file sizes. Download trials one at a time, then restart your computer to get started. For help with downloading the collection, follow our step-by-step download and install instructions.

If you already subscribe to or have a maintenance plan for individual products or suites, you can switch to a collection. For standalone maintenance, at your next renewal before May 7, 2021, you can trade in one seat for one subscription at a cost consistent with what you pay today.*

*Current maintenance prices will experience a 20% price increase on renewals after August 7, 2020.