About
Autodesk Maya is a product for 3D animation, modeling, rendering, and compositing. Maya® provides a comprehensive set of features for 3D computer animation, modeling, and rendering, built upon an easily extensible production platform.
Maya offers toolsets for creating high-quality characters and effects, as well as productivity enhancements for modeling, texturing, and shader creation tasks.
Program Features:
Construction of objects and characters through the modeling and editing of surfaces based on polygons, NURBS curves, and subdivision surfaces, with the ability to convert surface types into one another.
Sculpting tools.
Simulation of the behavior of realistic deformable materials—including hair, fur, cloth, fluids, and gases—using adjustable field systems (e.g., wind, gravity).
Replacement of particles with geometric objects.
Systems for creating realistic waves, foam, and various atmospheric effects.
Rendering capabilities including global illumination, caustics, ambient occlusion, refraction, reflection, and motion blur.Rendering tasks can be distributed across multiple computers.Render results can be exported in Macromedia Flash, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop formats.3D objects can be converted into 2D objects.
Scene animation systems: keyframe animation, procedural animation, inverse kinematics, and script-based animation.
A highly efficient environment featuring tools for keying, tracking, color correction, rotoscoping, 2D and 3D painting, distortion effects, environmental compositing with visual effects, depth-of-field calculation, object blurring, and stereoscopy support.
Interoperability with Autodesk MotionBuilder, Autodesk Mudbox, Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Softimage, and other Autodesk products.High adaptability through the use of scripting and application development tools such as MEL, Python, Qt Designer, PySide, and C++-based APIs.
Create boundless worlds, complex characters, and incredible effects.
Craft realistic characters using powerful animation tools.
Sculpt 3D objects and scenes using Maya’s intuitive modeling tools.
Generate realistic effects by simulating everything from explosions to fabrics.
Create complex procedural effects using Bifrost for Maya.
A new visual programming environment—featuring dynamic solvers—lets you quickly create blockbuster-quality effects.
Generate custom animation curves using the Bifrost Graph Editor.
Create stunning visual effects—including snow, sand, dust storms, and explosions—using ready-to-use animation curves.
Render your most complex projects with Arnold.
The Arnold rendering engine is designed to handle the challenges of creating complex characters, environments, and lighting setups.
Arnold is seamlessly integrated with Maya, allowing you to preview high-quality results and make rapid adjustments.
Save time thanks to Arnold’s user-friendly interface and simple, intuitive controls.