Reasons to Buy

The Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite 2011 offers creativity and productivity at a significant cost saving. The Maya Entertainment Creation Suite includes Maya 2011 3D animation software, Autodesk MotionBuilder 2011 real-time character animation software and Autodesk Mudbox 2011 digital sculpting and 3D painting software. Use the power of the suites to expand creative capability while improving production quality and efficiency.

Maximum Value
Purchase the ultimate set of Autodesk 3D tools for digital entertainment creation at a great new price.

• Save over 35%* – The Entertainment Creation Suite gives you access to proven production solutions in a cohesive package with significant savings over purchasing each product individually.

Maximum Productivity
Increase the efficiency of your pipeline with a comprehensive Autodesk 3D production toolset.

• Meet challenging production demands with Maya– an industry-leading 3D package for modeling, animation, effects and rendering.
• Sculpt, model and paint faster and better with Mudbox. Featuring intuitive 3D modeling, texturing and painting capabilities, Mudbox makes creating highly-detailed digital models as simple as sculpting with clay.
• Animate in real-time with MotionBuilder. Featuring a real-time, interactive 3D engine and advanced animation capabilities, MotionBuilder helps dramatically increase your overall animation output.

Maximum Creativity
Explore creative ideas using the full power of Autodesk’s state-of-the-art modeling and animation technology.

• Break through creative barriers with Maya. This award-winning, production-proven 3D package offers a broad range of integrated tools designed to help artists push creative boundaries.
• Explore real-time animation design, virtual cinematography and interactive pre-visualization with MotionBuilder.
• Create highly-detailed 3D models with ease. Mudbox delivers intuitive, organic modeling and painting tools that mimic the behavior of real-world sculpting and painting, while offering the advantages of non-destructive digital tools.

*Savings based upon USD SRP.

Autodesk Maya An end-to-end CG animation workflow Extensive 3D animation software tools, innovative simulation technologies, and advanced compositing capabilities Academy Award®-winning creative tools Powerful, flexible, open framework for better implementation of conceptual ideas Support for Microsoft® Windows®, Mac OS® X, and Linux® operating systems Autodesk Maya (pdf - 369Kb)

Autodesk Mudbox A premier digital sculpting and 3D painting software Supports the creation of highly detailed 3D characters and environments Highly intuitive organic modeling and painting tools Easy integration into existing production pipelines Support for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems Autodesk Mudbox (pdf - 823Kb)

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	System Requirements (pdf - 49Kb)

1. Base Modeling Learn how to model a low polygon head in Maya 2010, export it to Autodesk FBX file format, and take it into Mudbox 2010. View Video

2. High-Resolution Sculpting Pick up tools and techniques to quickly refine the shape of the head in Mudbox 2010. View Video

3. Texture Painting Take the head to the next level by painting detailed textures directly onto the high-resolution 3D mesh using brushes such as projection and clone. View Video

4. Finalizing Get geometry and texture details out of Mudbox 2010 for use in other applications such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Maya, and 3ds Max. View Video

Autodesk Mental Ray 2011 software delivers new features and enhancements designed to help studios produce higher-volume, higher-quality renderings for today’s complex film, television, and design visualization productions in less time. Now available as a single executable that works with Autodesk Maya 2011 software, Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 software, Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 software, and Autodesk Softimage 2011 software, mental ray Standalone 2011 provides extra flexibility in a mixed application pipeline. With accelerated performance and improved memory handling; higher-quality final gathering and texture filtering; a new physically accurate interactive rendering mode; and optimized stereoscopic rendering, mental ray Standalone 2011 represents significant advancements in high-performance rendering.

Real-Time 3D Character Animation

Increase your animation output per artist. Autodesk MotionBuilder real-time 3D character animation software can make film and game animation pipelines more efficient. MotionBuilder also enables you to create more and higher quality animation. You can create, edit, and play back complex character animation in a highly responsive, interactive environment that is ideal for high-volume animation, virtual cinematography, pre-visualization, and performance animation. Watch the MotionBuilder overview video

• Real-time engine—A real-time 3D engine makes it one of the industry’s fastest animation tools.
• Productivity geared workflows—Workflow features enable you to take on demanding, high-volume projects:
  • Full-body inverse kinematics character technology with animation retargeting
  • Unified nondestructive, nonlinear editing environment
  • Live device support
• Motion capture editing and data cleanup—A world-class toolset enables manipulation of motion capture data.
• Seamless interoperability—With its software development kit, support for Autodesk FBX technology, and Python scripting capabilities, MotionBuilder interoperates with Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Autodesk Softimage software, and Autodesk HumanIK middleware.

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Autodesk® Maya® software offers artists an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for 3D animation, modelling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, matchmoving and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. All these capabilities are combined into a single application offering CG artists exceptional value. Newly available for the Mac OS® X 64-bit operating system, Maya 2011 delivers a revitalised user interface, enhanced viewport interaction, new 3D editorial capabilities, integrated colour management and improved character animation.

Maya for Film

DreamWorks Animation SKG—the makers of Shrek and Kung Fu Panda—rely on Maya to add dimension to Monsters vs. Aliens. From pre-visualising feature films before a single frame is shot to producing spectacular, Oscar®-winning finished effects or stereoscopic projects, Autodesk Maya 3D animation software helps studios and artists increase the quality of their output and the efficiency of their film pipeline. Autodesk Maya software helps you to: Access a large pool of trained and talented artists Create 3D animatics for pre-visualisation of a shot Model, animate and light realistic high-resolution characters, environments, and performances Create more efficient, collaborative, differentiated pipelines that integrate Autodesk® MotionBuilder®, Autodesk® Mudbox™, Autodesk® Flame®, Autodesk® Smoke® software, and certain third-party and proprietary software Maya for Games Insomniac Games uses Autodesk Maya and Autodesk MotionBuilder to re-imagine recent American history in Resistance 2. As an integrated 3D modelling, animation and rendering software solution based on an open architecture, Autodesk Maya software is a tool of choice for those who require a higher level of control over their game art workflows and pipelines. Maya offers: Access to a large pool of trained and talented artists A comprehensive range of keyframe, nonlinear, and advanced character animation editing tools A wide-ranging suite of advanced polygon and subdivision surface modelling and texturing tools Support for creating and editing industry-standard images, formats and hardware shaders, including baking light maps and transferring texture maps between models of different resolutions and topologies The Python® Scripting Language, Maya Embedded Scripting Language (MEL) and a comprehensive API that enable developers to customise and scale implementation Maya for Television Emmy Award-winning production company uses Autodesk Maya to create an artful MTV video that inspires compassion for the people of Burma. Whether it be a television commercial, on-air graphics or visual effects-heavy episodics, Autodesk Maya 3D animation software helps you meet the challenges of the fast-paced television and broadcast production market. Adding Maya software to your pipeline helps you to: Access a large pool of trained and talented artists Model, animate and light realistic characters, environments, and graphics Render using a unified rendering user interface and workflow Create more efficient, collaborative, differentiated pipelines that integrate certain other toolsets, such as Autodesk® Flame®, Autodesk® Smoke® software and certain third-party and proprietary software Maya for Design Visualisation See how Zaha Hadid Architects uses the Maya API to drive design parameters parametrically to help inform their urban planning projects. Leading architects, automotive and consumer products designers, and creative advertising professionals use the Maya tool set to help explore, validate and communicate their designs. Architecture—Maya offers a robust platform with powerful 3D modelling software tool sets that complement the building information modelling (BIM) workflow during conceptualisation. Manufacturing—Complementing the Autodesk® Inventor®, Autodesk® Alias® and Autodesk® Showcase® family of products, the Maya tool set is used by manufacturers, marketers and their advertising agencies for work ranging from conceptual modelling to advanced animated visualisations. Automotive—Maya is used by designers at automotive OEMs to complement the Alias and Showcase family of products for a variety of tasks such as 3D modelling, data preparation and cleanup, and advanced visualisation. Consumer products manufacturing—Maya enables consumer products manufacturers to turn digital prototypes into highly realistic advertisements—without the need for costly physical prototypes and photography shoots.