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With close to 20 years experience in management and technology Marc Petit leads Autodesk Media & Entertainment as Senior Vice President. In this role he guides the development and the marketing of Autodesk’s leading systems and software solutions including Autodesk Inferno Autodesk Flame Autodesk Flint Autodesk Lustre Autodesk Smoke Autodesk Fire Autodesk Toxik Autodesk Combustion Autodesk 3ds Max Autodesk Maya Autodesk MotionBuilder and Autodesk FBX.
Petit became hooked on the creative energy of the computer animation industry in 1987 while working on the seminal short Paris 1789 one of the first films ever produced entirely in 3D. He entered the field of computer graphics at its inception armed with a graduate engineering degree in Telecommunications from INT (Institut National des Telecom) in Paris. He launched his career with French 3D software pioneer Thomson Digital Image (TDI) in 1987. From TDI Petit joined Softimage and helped the then-fledgling company reach critical mass in Europe. Later Petit moved to Montreal to serve as Softimage’s Vice President of 3D Products.
Before joining Autodesk in 2002 Petit was Vice President of Operations for Aptilon Health a company specialized in online interactive marketing. He was in charge of all operational activities including IT infrastructure and product development. | 