The Autodesk® Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk® Mudbox® 2012 software delivers powerful new tools that help solidify its position as an industry-leading 3D paint and sculpting solution. It allows for the handling of massive amounts of detail and with powerful underlying architecture, texture painting has reached a new level of detail. Key features are Gigatexel Engine, which help to produce highly detailed assets, Edge hardness, creasing & smoothing support, that allows you to work with models created in Autodesk`s softwares, Combine Bump and Normal maps, Enhanced tiling and Duplicate and Flip.

3ds Max 2012 Subscription Advantage Pack that was announced at SIGGRAPH 2011 in August, is already shipping. This one delivers new solutions that help you create and refine the look you require, faster and more easily. Between top benefits belongs, entirely new render pass system, which allows segment your scene for downstream compositing with it that features a visual interface or After Effects and Photoshop interoperability that sets a new standard for 2D/3D data exchange or ActiveShade Interactive iray Rendering and much more. 

Bonus Tools is a free collection of useful Maya scripts and plug-ins. On this page you will find a series of links to various tutorials, demonstrations and updates related to Maya Bonus Tools. Recent updates include e.g.  Scene Annotation,  Pattern Rename or Time Warp Animation. BonusTools has also been completely overhauled in 2012. This includes general reorganization as well as removal of obsolete tools. Additionally there have been updates and bug fixes for many of the tools including but not limited to Store Transform Values / Pose, Snap and Lock Curve Points or Adjust Clipping Planes. 

Autodesk released a Service Pack 2 for 3ds Max 2012 and 3ds Max Design 2012. This Service Pack includes fixes for issues with stability and performance based on customer feedback. It contains 87 fixes and bugs in Animation, Cat, Environment, modeling Tools and much more. 3ds Max 2012 Service Pack 2 is a cumulative update, it includes Hot Fix 1 and Hot Fix 2 as well as Service Pack 1.