Autodesk Maya 2013 software delivers practical toolsets to help facilities create and maintain the modern, open pipelines they need to address today’s challenging productions. Powerful new toolsets for dynamic simulation, animation, and rendering help artists realize new levels of creativity while offering the enhanced productivity that will help keep them on schedule and within budget. In addition, the Open Data initiative introduced in Maya 2013 helps facilitate data-centric, nonlinear workflows. With it, content creators can work in parallel to finish faster and more easily handle the massive complexity requirements they face. Includes a 1 year Autodesk Subscription.
The Core of a Modern CG Pipeline
Autodesk Maya 2013 software offers a deep and flexible feature set that forms a robust CG pipeline core. With powerful integrated modeling, simulation, animation, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing capabilities; single-step data exchange with other 3D applications in the Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suites 2013; and extensive opportunities for customization, studios large and small can build a modern pipeline with Maya at its core. Maya is used by leading artists to help create innovative entertainment, and both Maya and its developers have garnered numerous awards for technological innovation including three Academy Awards.
Stunning Simulations
Maya offers extensive simulation tools for creating high-quality, realistic fluid, particle, cloth, fur, hair, rigid-body, and soft-body dynamics. Engineered by leading research scientists, Maya Fluid Effects and the Maya Nucleus Unified Simulation Framework—with its Maya nCloth, Maya nParticles, and now Maya nHair modules—are designed to help make simulations more realistic. In addition, you can use the multithreaded NVIDIA PhysX engine*, the high-performance open source AMD Bullet Physics engine, and the Digital Molecular Matter plug-in from Pixelux Entertainment to create a range of advanced rigid-body, soft-body, and shattering simulations.
* Available on Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit operating systems only.
Believable Characters
Maya delivers industry leading tools for creating compelling CG characters. Used to help create villains and heroes like Tintin from The Adventures of Tintin, the dementors from the Harry Potter film series, and the Na’vi from AVATAR, Maya features highly customizable rigging tools, advanced muscle deformation, new heat map skinning, and Autodesk HumanIK full-body inverse kinematics (FBIK).
3D Editorial
Maya offers 3D editorial capabilities with the Camera Sequencer, which features a Sequencer Playlist, support for multi-track audio, and interoperability with certain non-linear editing (NLE) applications. Useful for editing 3D animation for previsualization or virtual moviemaking, the Camera Sequencer enables you to more precisely manage framing and timing of CG shots and play them back for review.
Performance
Maya is engineered to help handle today’s increasingly complex data sets without slowing down the creative process. It does this through multithreading, algorithmic tuning, sophisticated memory management, GPU optimizations, tools for segmenting scenes, and 64-bit support for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Mac OS X operating systems. In addition, the high-performance Viewport 2.0 enables you to interact with your scene in a higher fidelity environment, helping you make better creative decisions in context.
The Open Data Initiative
The Open Data initiative is a targeted set of features and workflows designed to help facilitate data-centric, nonlinear workflows. As an example, the ability to read and write the Alembic cache format enables you to distill animated and simulated data into application-independent baked geometry, so that it can be more easily moved between disciplines. Meanwhile, with native support for keyframes, constraints, animation layers, and Set Driven Keys, the ATOM (Animation Transfer Object Model) offline file format enables you to transfer animation between characters. And Maya Assets and enhanced file referencing help you better manage large and complex scenes and collaborate more effectively with others.
Highly Customizable
Maya offers multiple avenues for customization for companies wishing to integrate 3D tools more tightly into their pipeline, or to more easily add specialized production tools. It was built from the ground up with the Maya Embedded Language (MEL), and also offers Python scripting as well as an extensive, well-documented C++ API. Also, developers can create interface components more easily with Qt Designer.
Easy to Learn
From the Autodesk training and documentation that comes with Maya, to the breadth of partner and third-party books, DVDs, tutorials and training facilities, there are numerous resources to address a user’s learning style. Tap into a large online community of 3D professionals and enthusiasts to share information and knowledge.
Product Description
Autodesk Maya 2013 software delivers practical toolsets to help facilities working in 3D animation, visual effects, game design, and post production create and maintain the modern, open pipelines they need to address today’s challenging projects. Powerful new toolsets for dynamic simulation, animation, and rendering offer new levels of creativity, while everyday productivity enhancements help artists finish faster. In addition, the Open Data initiative introduced in Maya 2013 offers tools to help facilitate parallel workflows and better complexity handling.
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