Alias Maya 6.5

Whether you create content for blockbuster films, award-winning games, broadcast spots, print advertising, product design, commercial visualizations, multimedia videos, corporate websites, or any other professional arts application.

Maya 6.5 is a performance-driven release packed with new features and feature enhancements motivated by next generation production requirements for massive dataset handling.

Maya 6.5 will enable you to:

• Produce unsurpassed character animation
• Create spectacular particle and dynamic effects
• Manage complex scenes and massive data sets more efficiently
• Leverage high performance CAD data import
• Model breathtaking environments
• Build and organize sophisticated shader networks-fast
• Apply the power of mental ray 3.4 in more ways than ever
• Add clothing, fur or long hair to your characters
• Create and view interactive web pages for tutorials; scene and asset management
• Move quickly between Maya and Adobe Photoshop software

High performance CAD data import through the new STEP translator gives artists the ability to quickly import large data sets from most major CAD packages for the creation of high quality images and animations directly from CAD data.

Maya Complete 6.5 Features:

• User Interface Ease-of-use tools including marking menus and 3D manipulators speed up workflow.
• Modeling A full suite of advanced Polygon, NURBS and Subdivision Surface modeling tools.
• Animation A comprehensive range of keyframe, non-linear and advanced character animation editing tools for creating, animating, adapting and repurposing animation data and editing realistic digital characters.
• Visual Effects High-speed, dynamic interaction of hard and organic objects determined by physical rules. Industry leading particle tools acknowledged as the standard in visual effects.
• Brush-Based Technologies Maya Artisan, Maya Paint Effects and 3D Paint offer a unique, 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 UI and workflow provide easy and consistent access to Maya software, hardware and vector renderers, and mental ray for Maya.
• Maya API/SDK and MEL Development resources that let you customize and extend the capabilities of Maya via the renowned Maya embedded scripting language and a full Application Programmers' Interface.
• Tutorials and User Documentation Award-winning documentation and tutorials help hone your Maya skills so you can take full advantage of the software's capabilities.

Maya Unlimited 6.5 Features: (includes everything in Maya Complete, Plus:)

• Maya Fluid Effects The simulation and rendering of a huge variety of atmospheric, pyrotechnic, viscous liquid, and open ocean effects overcomes one of the greatest barriers in computer animation.
• Maya Cloth The world's most accurate software solution for simulating a wide variety of digital clothing and other fabric objects.
• Maya Fur Incredibly realistic styling and rendering of short hair and fur, with the Maya Artisan brush interface for painting fur attributes.
• Maya Live Matching of original live-action footage with 3D elements rendered in Maya.
• Maya Hair Tools for the creation, styling and rendering of fully dynamic long hair on NURBS or polygon objects. Includes the ability to make any NURBS curve dynamic - for advanced character rigging and effects.

Maya 6.5 System Requirements:

• Windows XP Professional or Windows 2000 Professional (service pack 2 or higher)
• Red Hat Linux 9.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 WS
• SUSE Linux 9.1
• IRIX 6.5.15 (ATTENTION Users of the IRIX Operating System)
• Apple Mac OS X 10. 3 or higher, Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, Netscape 6 or higher, Safari
• Windows: Intel Pentium III or higher, AMD Athlon processor
• Macintosh: Power Mac G4 and G5
• 512 MB RAM
• CD-ROM Drive
• Hardware-Accelerated OpenGL graphics card
• 3-button mouse with mouse driver software
• 450 MB of hard disk space