Autodesk’s Media and Entertainment solutions empower digital artists to realize their ideas, transforming their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality. Our award-winning products are designed for digital media creation, management, and delivery across all disciplines, from film and television visual effects, color grading, and editing to animation, game development, and design visualization.

Autodesk’s Media and Entertainment Division is based in Montreal, Quebec.

It was established in 1999 after Autodesk, Inc. acquired Discreet Logic, Inc. and merged its operations with Kinetix.

In January 2006, Autodesk acquired Alias, a developer of 3D graphics technology.