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Autodesk® Maya® software offers artists an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for 3D animation, modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. All these capabilities are combined into a single application offering CG artists an exceptional value. Newly available for the Mac OS® X 64-bit operating system, Maya 2011 delivers a revitalized user interface, enhanced viewport interaction, new 3D editorial capabilities, integrated color management, and improved character animation.

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Maya for Film

DreamWorks Animation SKG
DreamWorks Animation SKG—the makers of Shrek and Kung Fu Panda—rely on Maya to add dimension to Monsters vs. Aliens.

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

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Featured Customer Story

DreamWorks Animation SKG (pdf - 2146Kb)
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

Insomniac Games uses Autodesk Maya and Autodesk MotionBuilder to reimagine recent American history in Resistance 2.

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

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Featured Customer Story

Insomniac Games (pdf - 176Kb)
Insomniac Games uses Autodesk Maya and Autodesk® MotionBuilder® software to reimagine recent American history in Resistance 2.

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Maya for Television

Emmy Award-winning production company uses Autodesk Maya to create an artful MTV video that inspires compassion for the people of Burma.

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

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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 Visualization

See how Zaha Hadid Architects uses the Maya API to drive design parameters parametrically to help inform their urban planning projects.

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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