Autodesk Maya 2011
Autodesk® Maya® 2011 software is packed with new features to provide artists with an end-to-end solution for CG production. Newly available for the Mac OS® X 64-bit operating system, Maya® 2011 has been designed to help artists, designers, and 3D enthusiasts create more engaging and compelling digital imagery, stylistic designs, believable animated characters, and extraordinary visual effects for games, movies and television.
Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite includes Maya, MotionBuilder and Mudbox offering great value at a reduced price. It allows you to integrate techniques from sculpting to motion capture effectively and efficiently.
Features
- Maya is packed with tried and tested features: polygon and NURBS modelling, UV mapping and texturing, animation and rigging, a wide range of dynamic simulation tools, toon shading, tools for generating plants and other natural detail.
- There is choice of four built-in renderers including mental ray.
- With 64-bit executables for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, it’s ready to handle the large amounts of memory that today’s large scenes require.
Benefits
- At the cutting edge of innovative feature development for over 12 years, Maya is a proven solution that many of the world’s top production companies use.
- Maya is an out-of-the-box solution, but can also be customised for companies wishing to tightly integrate it with their existing pipelines.
- Subscription and support is available.
What's New
- A revitalized user interface (UI) offers a more consistent, improved user experience across all supported Maya platforms.
- Skinning tools and workflows help you create better-skinned characters with more realistic deformations in less time.
- A non-destructive retargeting workflow that uses Autodesk® HumanIK® 4.5 animation middleware libraries to enable you to reuse, correct, and enhance motion-capture and other animation data faster and more easily.
- 3D editorial capabilities help accelerate pre-visualisation and virtual movie-making production.
- Assets and file referencing enhancements enable you to more easily segment, reuse, and exchange data with or without file referencing.
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