Maya

Product Description

There’s a good reason why Autodesk Maya 2009 software is both found in every major studio and behind almost every award-winning animated project – it excels. And as the largest Maya reseller world-wide, we are in a great position to advise new and old clients.

Autodesk Maya 2009 is a powerful, integrated 3D modelling, animation, effects and rendering solution that itself has won awards, and it delivers on all levels of performance and usability.

The 3D graphics tool gives the user flexibility in being able to work with either its well-regarded API (application programming interface), or one of two imbedded scripting languages. What easier way is there to get creative?

Maya is the industry-leading suite of 3D graphics tools, both complete and accessible in providing the means to work within a single, production-proven workflow.

To buy now please contact Graeme our Software Manager or call us on +44 (0) 207 348 1920.

Features

• Modelling
• Animation
• Visual Effects
• Rendering
• Painting Tools
• Toon Shading
• Maya API/SDK, Python and MEL Scripting
• Tutorials and Documentation

Pricing

 Autodesk Maya Complete  £1,750 + VAT

Autodesk Maya Unlimited £4,350 + VAT
Contains everything in Autodesk Maya Complete, plus:

Maya Fluid Effects
Maya Nucleus Unified Simulation Framework
Maya nCloth
Maya Hair
Maya Fur
Maya Live

Latest release information:

It's 2009 already!

Maya 2009 delivers intuitive, productive modelling enhancements, including symmetrical modelling with soft seams, a tweak mode for rapid modifications and a new Merge Vertex feature that enables you to combine parts of a mesh.

Maya Assets
With Maya Assets, complex data can be effectively organised, shared, referenced and presented. Maya Assets enables you to encapsulate a set of nodes into a container so that they can be treated as if they were a single node from a user’s perspective (selected attributes of interest from the contained nodes can be published to the container). This new feature also supports customised and user-specific views, flexible referencing and the creation of customised libraries.

Animation Layering
A powerful new animation layering paradigm, built on technology from Autodesk® MotionBuilder® software, gives you more flexibility as you non-destructively create and edit animation. This toolset works with any attribute: animation layers can be blended, merged, grouped and reordered and can override or add to preceding layers.

Maya nParticles
Maya 2009 introduces the second module built on the highly acclaimed Maya Nucleus unified simulation framework: Maya nParticles. This newest toolset gives you an intuitive, efficient workflow for simulating a wide range of complex effects, including liquids, clouds, smoke, spray and dust. It features particle-to-particle collisions, particle and nCloth bidirectional interaction, powerful constraints, cloud and “blobby” hardware display, preset rendering and dynamic behaviours.

Maya Muscle
Maya 2009 includes the comprehensive Maya Muscle software, which helps you create life-like muscle and skin motion. This toolset allows you to direct muscle and skin behaviour precisely, with secondary motion, collisions, wrinkles, sliding and stickiness.

UV Layout Enhancements
The ability to preserve UVs (when making modelling edits after the fact) as well as new UV unfolding and layout options —including an interactive mode—can increase your productivity by streamlining the otherwise time-consuming task of creating optimal texture coordinates.

Render Proxy
A new Render Proxy feature in mental ray® enables you to replace scene elements with a simple low-resolution mesh and only load the pre-translated data when required for rendering.

Render Pass Enhancements
A completely updated Render Pass feature set provides precise control over render output, making it easier to optimise integration with compositing packages such as Autodesk® Toxik™ software.

[Images - Top: Transformers/Dreamworks & Paramount, Bottom Right: Autodesk Maya]