AutoDesk

Autodesk  3ds  Max,  formerly 3D  Studio  Max,  is  a  professional 3D  computer  graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images. It was developed andproduced  by Autodesk  Media  and  Entertainment. It  has  modeling  capabilities,  aflexible plugin architecture  and  can  be  used  on  the  Microsoft  Windows  platform. It  is frequently  used  by video  game  developers,  many  TV  commercial  studios  and architectural  visualization  studios.  It  is  also  used  for  movie  effects  and  movie  previsualization.In  addition  to  its  modeling  and  animation  tools,  the  latest  version  of  3ds  Max  also features shaders (such  as occlusion  and subsurface  scattering), dynamic simulation, particle  systems, radiosity, normal  map creation  and  rendering, global illumination, a customizable user interface, and its own scripting language.