Autodesk Maya Unlimited 7.0

Never limit your vision.

Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited software is the world's most powerful 3D animation and visual effects package, offering the ultimate creative toolset. Experience industry-leading innovations for the creation of advanced digital content. Autodesk Maya Unlimited includes all of the integrated tools and functionality in

Autodesk Maya Complete and adds these industry leading innovations:

Autodesk Maya Fluid Effects™; Autodesk Maya Cloth; Autodesk Maya Hair; Autodesk Maya Fur, and Autodesk Maya Live.
Available for the Windows® XP Professional, Linux®, and Mac® OS X operating systems.
Autodesk Maya Unlimited contains everything in Autodesk Maya Complete, plus:

Maya Fluid Effects
Simulate and render a huge variety of atmospheric, pyrotechnic, viscous liquid and open ocean effects.

Autodesk Maya Fluid Effects overcomes one of the greatest barriers in computer animation.

Maya Fur
Easily create realistic fur, short hair, wool and grass on NURBS, subdivision surfaces, or polygonal models. Incredibly realistic styling and rendering of short hair and fur, with Autodesk Maya Artisan Brush Interface for painting fur attributes.

Maya Cloth

Animate any cloth object including sails, skins, tents, drapery and bedding.

Autodesk Maya Cloth is the fastest and most accurate software solution for simulating a wide variety of digital clothing and other fabric objects.

Maya Live
Combine 2D live-action with 3D elements.

Autodesk Maya Live provides greater flexibility, a fast-integrated 2D Tracker and an interactive Root Frame Solver. Autodesk Maya Live also allows you to reconstruct live-action elements as 3D geometry plus output to external applications.

Maya Hair
Create, style and render fully dynamic long hair on NURBS or polygon objects. Make any NURBS curve dynamic for use in advanced character rigging and effects. Also use

Autodesk Maya Hair to create a wide range of other non-hair effects.
Turn your big ideas into reality. Academy Award® winning Autodesk® Maya® software is the world's most powerfully integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects and rendering solution. Autodesk Maya also adds to the quality and realism of 2D graphics. That's why film and video artists, game developers, visualization professionals, Web and print designers turn to Autodesk Maya to realize their creative vision.

The Autodesk Maya Family

Autodesk Maya Unlimited
Create superior digital content. The ultimate version of Autodesk Maya software includes all the functionality found in

Autodesk Maya Complete, while providing artists and animators with additional, industry leading innovations such as Autodesk Maya Fluid Effects, Autodesk Maya Cloth,

Autodesk Maya Hair, Autodesk Maya Fur and Autodesk Maya Live, for the creation of superior digital content.

Autodesk Maya Complete

Make your 3D projects stand out.

Autodesk Maya Complete integrates the world's foremost modeling, animation,

visual effects and advanced rendering technologies into one complete workflow solution. It's the world’s most comprehensive

3D software, handling massive datasets and producing professional-quality graphics for PC or graphics workstations.

Autodesk Maya Personal Learning Edition
Explore the latest version of Autodesk Maya Complete software. This special Personal Learning Edition version provides free access to Autodesk Maya software for non-commercial use. Students of

3D graphics and animation, industry professionals and those interested in breaking into the world of computer graphics have an opportunity to use, and learn,

Autodesk Maya Complete to develop much in demand skills.

Highlights

Intuitive User Interface
Ease-of-use tools such as marking menus and 3D manipulators speed up your workflow.

Modeling & UV Mapping Tools
A full suite of advanced polygon, NURBs and Sub-division Surface modeling tools.

Animation
Use a comprehensive range of keyframe, non-linear and advanced character animation editing tools for creating, animating, adapting and repurposing animation data and editing digital characters.

Visual Effects

High-speed, dynamic interaction of hard and soft bodies determined by physical rules. Industry-leading particle tools acknowledged as the standard in visual effects.

Brush-Based Technology

Autodesk Maya Artisan, Autodesk Maya Paint Effects™ and 3D Paint offer an award-winning suite of integrated pressure-sensitive brush tools for modeling, creating 2D and 3D effects, and painting on geometry and textures.

Rendering
A unified rendering workflow provides easy and consistent access to the

Autodesk Maya software, hardware, mental ray® and vector renderers through a common interface. The

Toon Shader makes it easy to create painterly effects and mimic the look of traditional 2D comic books, cartoons and Japanese manga/anime.

API/SDK and MEL
Development resources let you customize and extend Autodesk

Maya software's capabilities via the renowned Autodesk Maya embedded scripting language and a full Application Programmers' Interface.
Tutorials & User Documentation
Take advantage of the Autodesk Community for free tutorials, discussion forums, and a range of other materials. Inside Autodesk Maya software, you'll find award-winning documentation, more tutorials and an

Autodesk Maya learning tool. It's all there to help hone your Autodesk Maya skills so you can take full advantage of what Autodesk Maya software has to offer.

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