Autodesk Maya

Autodesk® Maya® 3D animation software delivers a comprehensive creative feature set with tools for animation, modelling, simulation, rendering, matchmoving and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. For visual effects, game development, post-production or other 3D animation projects, Maya offers toolsets to help meet demanding production requirements. Maya 2013 adds tools that help to facilitate parallel workflows and complexity handling, powerful new creative toolsets, and productivity enhancements to help you create higher quality content quickly.

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Maya for Film

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

  • Access a large pool of trained and talented artists
  • Create 3D animatics for pre-visualisation 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® Softimage®, Autodesk® Flame®, Autodesk® Smoke® software and certain third-party and proprietary software

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Featured Customer Story

DreamWorks Animation SKG (PDF – 2146 KB)
Using Autodesk Maya, the imaginative animators behind Shrek and Kung Fu Panda developed a stereoscopic pipeline for Monsters vs. Aliens.

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Maya for Games

As an integrated 3D animation, modelling 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, non-linear and advanced character animation editing tools
  • A wide-ranging suite of advanced polygon and subdivision surface modelling 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 customise and scale implementation

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Insomniac Games (PDF – 176 KB)
Insomniac Games uses Autodesk Maya and Autodesk MotionBuilder software to re-imagine recent American history in Resistance 2.

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Maya for Television

Whether for a television commercial, on-air graphics or visual effects-heavy episodics, Autodesk Maya 3D animation software helps you to meet the challenges of the fast-paced television post-production and broadcast production markets. 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

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Featured Customer Story

Shilo (PDF – 88 KB)
Emmy® Award-winning production company uses Autodesk Maya to create an artful MTV video that inspires compassion for the people of Burma.

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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 modelling software toolsets that complement the Building Information Modelling (BIM) workflow during conceptualisation.
  • Manufacturing – Complementing the Autodesk® Inventor®, Autodesk® Alias® and Autodesk® Showcase® family of products, the Maya toolset is used by manufacturers, marketers and their advertising agencies for work ranging from conceptual modelling to advanced animated visualisations.
  • 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 modelling, data preparation and clean-up, and advanced visualisation.
  • 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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