White Papers

Converting mono footage into stereoscopic 3D (S3D), or "re-dimensionalization", is generally known to be a labor intensive and time-consuming process. This document discusses common techniques currently used by the industry at large and how Autodesk solutions Autodesk® Flame® Premium, Autodesk® Flare™, and Autodesk® Maya® software provide a more efficient workflow for re-dimensionalizing 2D footage.

Autodesk Solutions For Efficient 2D to Stereoscopic 3D Conversion (pdf - 575Kb)

This white paper explains how to use the Maya render pass framework. The covered topics include: rendering pipeline efficiency, configuring and customizing render passes, and how to composite render passes. The examples show how to leverage render passes to achieve efficient compositing workflows for common rendering, lighting and look tuning tasks.

	Render Pass Concepts and Techniques White Paper (pdf - 3363Kb)
	Render Pass Concepts and Techniques Examples (zip - 137Kb)

Learn how you can edit meshes 75% faster and increase your ROI by up to $20,000 per workstation, per year, when you upgrade to Autodesk Maya 2011. Pfeiffer Consulting, an independent technology research institute and benchmarking firm, quantified specific performance, productivity, and efficiency gains of Autodesk Maya 2011 software, as compared to specific earlier versions. Read the reports.

	Maya 2011: Productivity Benchmarks (pdf - 2168Kb)
	Maya 2011: Market Perspectives, Productivity, and ROI (pdf - 1057Kb)

This white paper discusses the Maya Nucleus solver's architecture and how the components of the solver are controlled through the Maya nodes and attributes. This is followed by a more detailed discussion on how to help achieve optimal result with Maya nCloth and nCloth caching, and some frequently used effects.

Nucleus in Autodesk Maya White Paper (pdf - 2051Kb)

An overview of the Autodesk OpenMaya API (application programming interface) architecture that also applies to Python® scripting language.

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Autodesk Maya API | White Paper (pdf - 159Kb)