Autodesk Maya 2012
Gain access to an end-to-end creative workflow with Autodesk Maya 2012, a comprehensive CG toolset for modelling, simulation, animation, rendering, match-moving and compositing.
Maya 2012 delivers a powerful modern toolset for pre-visualisation and game prototyping, extended simulation capabilities and improved pipeline integration.
You can now explore, refine and present ideas prior to final production more easily than before, using new tools: with higher-fidelity Viewport 2.0 with full-screen effects, support for modelling workflows and the new ability to create node-based representations of render passes.
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
- Extensive simulation tools for creating high-quality, realistic fluid, particle, cloth, fur, hair, rigid and soft-body dynamics.
- Industry-leading tools for creating CG characters with highly customisable rigging tools, advanced muscle deformation and skinning tools, full-body inverse kinematics (FBIK) and the ability to more smoothly blend forward and inverse kinematics.
- 3D editorial capabilities with the Camera Sequencer, which features a Sequencer Playlist, support for multi-track audio.
- Improved pipeline efficiency with Autodesk® FBX® 2012 data exchange technology, allows large and complex scenes and 3D assets move through your pipeline more efficiently.
Benefits
- At the cutting edge of innovative feature development for over 13 years, Maya is a proven solution that many of the world’s top production companies use.
- It’s engineered to help handle today’s increasingly complex data sets without slowing down the creative process. It does this through multi-threading, algorithmic tuning, sophisticated memory management, GPU optimisations, tools for segmenting scenes and 64-bit support for Microsoft® Windows®, Linux®, and Apple® Mac OS® X operating systems.
- Subscription and support is available.
What's New
- Evaluate your work in a higher fidelity environment, without the need to render or export to a game engine, with new full-screen motion blur, depth-of-field and ambient occlusion effects in Viewport 2.0.
- Create and edit node-based representations of render passes directly within Maya 2012.
- Intuitively edit the position and timing of key frames direct.
- Reorder clips, edit In and Out points and change camera assignments through a new Sequencer Playlist.
- Achieve a vast range of look variations with a new library of 80 Substance procedural dynamic, resolution-independent textures.
- Create believable, complex camera movements that mimic real-world set-ups, with four new camera rigs from the Craft Director Studio™ animation tool.
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