Autodesk Maya

Powerful 3D Animation Software

Autodesk Maya 2013: 3D animation software

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.

  • Maya nHair – Create highly realistic hair and other curve-based dynamics.
  • Viewport 2.0 enhancements – Enjoy a higher fidelity interactive environment and high-speed batch rendering.
  • New node editor – Create, edit and debug node networks more easily.
  • Bullet physics – Simulate both soft and rigid bodies at higher speed.
  • Heat Map skinning – Enjoy more accurate initial binding of geometry to skeletons.
  • Trax clip matching – Visualise how Trax clips overlap in order to build complete character performances from individual animations.
  • ATOM animation transfer Transfer animation between characters via the new ATOM (Animation Transfer Object Model) offline file format.
  • Alembic caching – Distill complex animated and simulated data into application-independent baked geometry for faster playback.

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