Autodesk Maya 2013
Gain access to an end-to-end creative workflow with Autodesk Maya 2013, a comprehensive CG toolset for modelling, simulation, animation, rendering, match-moving and compositing.
Maya 2013 delivers a powerful modern toolset for pre-visualisation and game prototyping, extended simulation capabilities and improved pipeline integration. As well as that, the Open Data initiative introduced in this version will help facilitate data-centric, nonlinear workflows allowing content creators to work in parallel for greater productivity.
Maya is the tool that lets you 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.
It is also possible to get Maya with all the trimmings with Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite, which 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
- The new Maya nHair module lets you create more realistic hair as well as other curve-based actions.
- Viewport 2.0 enhancements now offer artists the opportunity to evaluate work more accurately, contributing to better creative decisions. Artists and technical directors can create, edit and debug node networks more easily with the new Node Editor.
- Simulate soft and rigid bodies in a single system with the open source AMD Bullet Physics engine.
- For more accurate binding of geometry to skeletons artists now have the support of Heat Map Skinning.
- Visualise how two or more Trax clips match, and adjust how they blend more accurately.
- Developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm, Alembic caching lets Maya artists read and write an Alembic open computer graphics interchange framework format.
- The Animation Transfer Object Model (ATOM) lets artists transfer animation between characters in an offline format. This is another element of the Open Data initiative introduced to this version of Maya
- Enhancements to file referencing within Maya has made it easier for artists to segment their scenes, to manage and control complex jobs better.
- A retime tool and a stepped preview mode have been added to the Graph Editor function to improve efficiency.
- The character rigging and animation tools are now more powerful with improvements made to the HumanIK feature set.
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