Academy Award–Winning Technology Extends Its Toolset for Previsualization, Games Prototyping and SimulationAutodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced that Autodesk Maya 2012 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, rendering and compositing software now contains powerful new toolsets for previsualization and games prototyping, extended simulation capabilities and better pipeline integration. The new release also includes single-step workflows to enable users to move 3D data directly between the latest versions of Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Autodesk Mudbox and Autodesk Softimage Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) for better pipeline integration. Viewport 2.0 Enhancements The high-performance viewport introduced with Autodesk Maya 2011 now offers fullscreen effects: motion blur, depth-of-field, and ambient occlusion, enabling artists to evaluate their work in a higher fidelity environment and without needing to render or export to a game engine. In addition, Viewport 2.0 now provides component and manipulator display to support modeling workflows, together with batch rendering capabilities, and a high-performance API (application programming interface). "Maya continues to drive creative innovation across the film, games and television industries -- from 'Black Swan' to 'EA SPORTS MMA' and 'NCIS,' new creative standards are being set in productions of all kinds," said Marc Petit, senior vice president, Autodesk Media & Entertainment. “With Maya 2012, we have continued our long-term focus on improving production efficiency as well as real-time creative iteration with enhancements to the Maya viewport, addressing new trends in previsualization, virtual moviemaking and games prototyping.†“The high-fidelity viewport, enhancements to Nucleus and the overall performance improvements, have made Maya 2012 more flexible, powerful and modern,†said Peter Shipkov, technical director, Digital Domain. Substance Smart Textures Achieve a vast range of look variations with a new library of 80 Substances smart textures and filters. Substances are tiny in size, multi-output, customizable, resolution-independent and seamless textures that can be rapidly converted into high-quality bitmaps for rendering or baking purpose. Alternatively, substances can be exported in any 3D game engines via the Substance Air middleware offering (available separately from Allegorithmic). Some examples of dynamically editable and animatable parameters are: brick distribution, surface aging, and mortar thickness in a brick wall; pupil size, eye color, and extent of veining in an eye texture; and the age, roughness, curb borders, and lane markings of a street texture. Key New Features in Autodesk Maya 2012 Software
For more information, including new feature videos, visit the Maya website (www.autodesk.com/maya) and read the Maya AREA blogs: Cory Mogk's Mayalicious, Duncan's Corner and Steven Roselle's My Oh Maya! New Simulation Options Create compelling dynamic effects in less time, with new simulation options that incorporate industry-leading technology into Maya. Now artists can leverage the multithreaded NVIDIA PhysX engine to create static, dynamic, and kinematic rigid-body simulations directly in the Maya viewport, and gain the ability to match a runtime solution. And highly-realistic shattering simulations with multiple interacting materials are more easily achievable, with the help of the newly included Digital Molecular Matter plug-in from Pixelux Entertainmentâ„¢. Pricing and Availability Motion Capture Samples Leverage the advanced motion retargeting capabilities of Maya 2012, with 70 motion capture samples that provide useful starting points for creating previsualizations and developing character animations. Utilizing the Autodesk FBX 2012 asset exchange format, the samples can be shared between applications in the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites. Autodesk Maya 2012 is also expected to be available as part of the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2012, which offers Maya together with Softimage, Mudbox and MotionBuilder software for $6,495** MSRP, representing a 42 percent** cost savings compared to purchasing the software separately. *Available with Autodesk Maya 2012 Windows platform
only. About Autodesk Autodesk, AutoCAD, Maya, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, Softimage and 3ds Max are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. Academy Award is a registered trademark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. iray is a registered trademark of mental images GmbH licensed for use by Autodesk, Inc. All other brand names, produ ct names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document. © 2011 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved. Editor's Note: Be sure to check out all the valuable resources available right here on Renderosity, for all your artistic endeavors, starting with the following related links: |
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