Autodesk Maya

Maya for Film

From pre-visualizing feature films before a single frame is shot to producing spectacular, Oscar®-winning finished effects or stereoscopic projects, Autodesk Maya 3D animation software helps studios and artists increase the quality of their output and the efficiency of their film pipeline. Autodesk Maya software helps you to:

• Access a large pool of trained and talented artists
• Create 3D animatics for pre-visualization of a shot
• Model, animate, and light realistic high-resolution characters, environments, and performances
• Create more efficient, collaborative, differentiated pipelines that integrate Autodesk® MotionBuilder®, Autodesk® Mudbox™, Autodesk® Flame®, Autodesk® Smoke® software, and certain third-party and proprietary software

Maya for Games

As an integrated 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software solution based on an open architecture, Autodesk Maya software is a tool of choice for those who require a higher level of control over their game art workflows and pipelines. Maya offers:

• Access to a large pool of trained and talented artists
• A comprehensive range of keyframe, nonlinear, and advanced character animation editing tools
• A wide-ranging suite of advanced polygon and subdivision surface modeling and texturing tools
• Support for creating and editing industry-standard images, formats and hardware shaders, including baking light maps and transferring texture maps between models of different resolutions and topologies
• The Python® Scripting Language, Maya Embedded Scripting Language (MEL), and a comprehensive API that enable developers to customize and scale implementation

Maya for Television

Whether it be a television commercial, on-air graphics, or visual effects-heavy episodics, Autodesk Maya 3D animation software helps you meet the challenges of the fast-paced television and broadcast production market. Adding Maya software to your pipeline helps you to:

• Access a large pool of trained and talented artists
• Model, animate, and light realistic characters, environments, and graphics
• Render using a unified rendering user interface and workflow
• Create more efficient, collaborative, differentiated pipelines that integrate certain other toolsets, such as Autodesk® Flame®, Autodesk® Smoke® software, and certain third-party and proprietary software

Maya for Design Visualisation

Leading architects, automotive and consumer products designers, and creative advertising professionals use the Maya toolset to help explore, validate, and communicate their designs.

• Architecture—Maya offers a robust platform with powerful 3D modeling software toolsets that complement the building information modeling (BIM) workflow during conceptualization.
• Manufacturing—Complementing the Autodesk® Inventor®, Autodesk® Alias®, and Autodesk® Showcase® family of products, the Maya toolset is used by manufacturers, marketers, and their ad agencies for work ranging from conceptual modeling to advanced animated visualizations.
• Automotive—Maya is used by designers at automotive OEMs to complement the Alias and Showcase family of products for a variety of tasks such as 3D modeling, data preparation and cleanup, and advanced visualization.
• Consumer products manufacturing—Maya enables consumer products manufacturers to turn digital prototypes into highly realistic advertisements—without the need for costly physical prototypes and photography shoots.

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System Requirements

For 32-bit Autodesk Maya 2012

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business (SP2), or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3) operating systems
• Windows: Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
• 2 GB RAM
• 10 GB free hard drive space
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
• Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
• DVD-ROM drive
• HDD: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, Apple Safari, or Mozilla Firefox web browsers

For 64-bit Autodesk Maya 2012

• Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista Business x64 Edition (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2), Apple® Mac OS® X 10.6.5, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.5 WS, or Fedora™ 14 operating systems
• Windows and Linux: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
• Macintosh® computer: Macintosh computer with Intel-based 64-bit processor
• 4 GB RAM
• 10 GB free hard drive space
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card
• Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
• DVD-ROM drive
• HDD: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, Apple Safari, or Mozilla Firefox web browsers