Autodesk Maya

Autodesk® Maya® 3D animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for animation, modelling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, matchmoving and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. Whether you work in film, games, television, advertising, publishing or graphic design, Maya offers state-of-the-art toolsets, combined into a single affordable offering designed to help meet today’s demanding production requirements. Autodesk® Maya® 2012 delivers new toolsets for previsualisation and game prototyping, extended simulation capabilities and improved pipeline integration.

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Maya for Film

From pre-visualising 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-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® Flame®, Autodesk® Smoke® software and certain third-party and proprietary software

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Featured Customer Story

DreamWorks Animation SKG (PDF – 2146 KB)
With 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 modelling, 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, 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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Featured Customer Story

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 it’s 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 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

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Featured Customer Story

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

Maya for Design Visualisation

Leading architects, automotive and consumer products designers and creative advertising professionals use the Maya tool set 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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