Autodesk Maya 2011
Newly available for the Mac OS® X 64-bit operating system, Autodesk® Maya® 2011 software offers artists an invigorated user interface, new 3D editorial capabilities and improved character animation.
Autodesk Maya 2011
Autodesk® Maya® 2011 software features powerful new tools for helping create and repurpose character animation: enhanced skinning capabilities and nondestructive live motion retargeting. Its new 3D Editorial timeline helps accelerate pre-visualization and virtual movie-making workflows, while an invigorated user interface helps improve artists’ efficiency and creativity. Maya 2011 addresses
today’s demanding production requirements with its high-performance viewport display of large scenes, integrated color management, scene segmentation, improved rotoscoping, and new UI toolkit. With support for 64-bit Mac OS® X as well as Linux® and Windows® operating systems, Maya is now more accessible than ever, offering artists an end-to-end creative workflow at exceptional value.
Key Features of Autodesk Maya 2011
- Unbeatable Value
Maya provides customers with a full featured 3D modeling, animation, effects and rendering feature set in addition to advanced matchmoving capabilities and high dynamic range compositing in a single affordable offering.
- Proven Solution
Maya has been a 3D tool of choice for companies producing the top film, games, and television content throughout the world for the last decade.
- Productivity
Maya helps maximize productivity with optimized workflows for everyday tasks, opportunities for collaborative, parallel workflows and re-use of assets, and automation through scripting for repetitive tasks.
- Performance
Through a combination of multi-threading, algorithmic tuning, sophisticated memory management, and tools for segmenting scenes, Maya is engineered to help elegantly handle today’s increasingly complex data sets without slowing down the creative process.
- Interoperability
Maya includes the Autodesk® FBX® technology supporting the exchange of 3D data with numerous professional applications, allowing certain assets created outside of Maya to be re-used.
- Extensibility
Built from the ground-up with its own embedded scripting language, Maya Embedded Language (MEL), Maya also offers Python™ scripting, and an extensive, well-documented C++ application programming interface (API). In addition, a software development kit (SDK) is available to help assist studios with pipeline integration.
- Platform Choice
Whether an artist uses Windows®, Mac®, or Linux® operating systems, Maya runs on these platforms. Also with 64-bit executables for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
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