Autodesk Flow connects teams across the production lifecycle.
Productions in film, television, and games are becoming more complex every year. Teams are more distributed, pipelines span more tools, and the volume of data that needs to stay connected continues to grow.
That reality has made one thing clear: creative teams need better ways to connect their work across the production lifecycle.
Autodesk Flow is Autodesk’s industry cloud for Media and Entertainment. It’s a flexible portfolio of cloud-based solutions built to power efficient, end-to-end production workflows for film, television, and game development.
Flow connects people, data, and workflows in the cloud while remaining compatible with the existing tools and pipelines studios rely on today. The result is a connected production foundation that helps teams work more efficiently as projects scale in size, complexity, and ambition.
Autodesk Flow brings together several cloud-based solutions that support different stages of production.
Flow Production Tracking brings all your production data into one secure hub, helping teams streamline asset and task tracking, scheduling, budgeting, resource planning, automated workflows, and real-time review. It provides a consistent source of truth across pipelines, teams, and locations.
Flow Capture enables teams to capture and deliver on-set camera footage in seconds, review and edit projects in real time across teams and locations, and track, manage, and store project assets in one secure place. By accelerating decision-making, it helps keep your productions moving from set through post.
Autodesk Flow Studio (formerly Wonder Studio) helps creators elevate their live-action footage into production-ready 3D scenes leveraging AI, whether it’s automatically animating CG characters, generating motion capture, tracking cameras, or creating clean plates and masks. Flow Studio integrates with USD-based workflows in tools like Autodesk Maya, Blender, and Unreal Engine, allowing artists to move faster while maintaining full creative control.
A chart on what Autodesk Flow is today.
Our goal with Autodesk Flow is to help creators unlock new levels of creativity and productivity while maintaining full artistic control. Flow is designed to help studios take advantage of cloud and AI technologies without disrupting the tools, workflows, or creative decisions that define their work.
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At its core, Autodesk Flow will provide the connected foundation modern productions need as scale and complexity continue to increase. This foundation will come to life through three core concepts.
Today’s productions can look very different from one project to the next—from small, independent teams to thousands of collaborators spread across multiple companies, countries and time zones.
As that scale increases, keeping track of decisions, assets, and context becomes more difficult. Artists and supervisors move between projects. Decisions made early in production still matter years later. Creative intent, notes, versions, approvals, and context need to persist long after individuals move on. Historically, organizing and preserving that information has been left to studios to solve on their own, often resulting in fragmented systems, incomplete information, and lost context.
Autodesk Flow directly addresses that challenge. It will provide a shared foundation where production data can be organized, connected, and made available throughout the lifecycle of a project. By linking people, data, and workflows across the production pipeline, Flow helps studios operate with greater clarity, efficiency, and resilience over time.
The goal is not to change how artists work, but to make collaboration more efficient and more resilient as productions evolve.
A common concern with cloud platforms is the risk of being locked into a closed ecosystem. This is not the case with Autodesk Flow, which is specifically designed to connect to your existing ecosystem.
Data is the lifeblood of media and entertainment, and studios must remain in control of it. Flow is built to integrate with the tools, systems, and pipelines studios already use, including third-party applications and in-house technology.
Rather than attempting to replace the production pipeline, Flow connects it by making data available where work is happening and by allowing teams to evolve their workflows over time. This openness gives studios the flexibility they need today and the adaptability they will need in the future.
AI is already reshaping how media and entertainment projects are created, but AI is only as effective as the data behind it and the artist guiding it.
Flow focuses on helping studios securely connect and structure your production data so it can be used responsibly and effectively by AI-powered tools, whether those tools come from Autodesk or third parties. This enables several important outcomes. It supports smarter tools today by embedding AI capabilities into existing workflows to reduce repetitive work and improve productivity. It increases the value of connected data by helping AI systems understand how assets, shots, and decisions relate to one another across a project. And it enables new AI-native ways of working, including emerging workflows like those being developed with Flow Studio, and it does so without risking your creative control or your intellectual property.
By designing Autodesk Flow with these outcomes in mind, we are creating the kind of foundation needed for AI-enabled media and entertainment production–in a way that respects artists, creative intent, and studio ownership of their work.
The future of media and entertainment will be shaped by how well the industry adopts new technologies while preserving what makes creative work fun and inspiring.
Computers fundamentally transformed how films and games are made. Cloud and AI represent the next major shift. Autodesk Flow is here to help studios bridge that gap, connecting the existing systems to the new, desktop to cloud, and enabling new AI-driven production capabilities that unlock new levels of creativity rather than replace it.
Autodesk Flow is designed to support that future as an open industry cloud for media and entertainment. It delivers immediate value today by improving collaboration, while providing a flexible foundation for the workflows and technologies that are still to come.