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Review
This is official description
Autodesk® Maya® 3D animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for animation, modeling, 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 previsualization and game prototyping, extended simulation capabilities, and improved pipeline integration.
The following review written by one of the Software Informer contributors applies to version 11.0
Autodesk Maya is professional 3D modelling and animation software. It is being used by a lot of firms involved with 3D animation.
Maya comes with a lot more features than the previous versions. The main noticeable aspect is the interface. The new GUI is just great. There are a lot more windows and editors included. Those familiar with the old Maya could use this one easily. The help documentation includes flash animations. New MEL and Python commands are added. Improvements like faster 3D painting and sculpting, multi-threaded deformers make the program faster. There is a 64 bit version of the software which further improves the performance in newer systems.
One of the problems with Maya is that it is a very complex program. The huge list of tools can be very confusing for a beginner. The software is very expensive. If you are planning to use it for study, there is a free version available on the developer's website. The product documentation includes details for all the tools, commands, and API. The software requires a good graphics card and huge amounts of RAM and processing power.
I liked doing 3D modeling with the program. But I found the animation part quite confusing. I have an ATi Radeon HD 2600 graphics card, 2GB memory and a P4 64-bit processor. The program runs fine but the rendering will be faster if you have a good processor. |
- A lot of features.
- Improved performance than previous versions.
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- Costly.
- Difficult to study.
- Needs a lot of memory and processing power.
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Reviewed by: Zack Martin Reviewer rating: Reviewed: Last year
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What's new in version 2012.0
Autodesk Maya 2012 offers powerful new toolsets for previsualization and game prototyping, extended simulation capabilities, and improved pipeline integration.
The Learning Path offers Maya tutorials, demos, tips and tricks, technical support, and more.
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