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AutoDesk Maya 2011
Autodesk® Maya® software offers artists an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for 3D animation, modeling, 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 an exceptional value. Newly available for the Mac OS® X 64-bit operating system, Maya 2011 delivers a revitalized user interface, enhanced viewport interaction, new 3D editorial capabilities, integrated color management, and improved character animation.
Features
Features in Autodesk® Maya® 3D animation, modeling, visual effects, rendering, and compositing software provide artists with an end-to-end creative workflow.
Autodesk Maya 2011 3D animation software provides a consistent, enhanced user experience across all supported platforms—Mac OS® X, Windows® 32- and 64-bit, and Linux® 64-bit operating systems—with a revitalized user interface that offers a fresh new look, dockable UI elements, more flexible editors, and an updated color chooser and file browser. In addition, a new node browser within Hypershade displays nodes by category in a searchable tree list and provides easier access to frequently used nodes.
Compare Releases
Compare your 2009 version of Autodesk® Maya® Complete or Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited software with Autodesk® Maya® 2011 software, which offers you an end-to-end creative workflow.
Note: Autodesk® Maya® 2010 software was the first release to unify the Maya Complete 2009 and Maya Unlimited 2009 feature sets and add advanced matchmoving capabilities and high dynamic range compositing into a single affordable offering. Also included for a more complete CG workflow are 5 mental ray® for Maya batch* rendering nodes and the Autodesk® Backburner™† network render queue manager.
System Requirements
For 32-bit Autodesk Maya 2011
* Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business (SP2 or higher), Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3 or higher), Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional operating system
* Windows: Intel® Pentium® 4 or higher, AMD Athlon™ 64, AMD Opteron™ processor, AMD Phenom™ processor
* 2 GB RAM
* 4 GB free hard drive space
* Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
* Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
* DVD-ROM drive
* Maya Composite media cache requirements for playback:
o 10 GB minimum, 200 GB recommended
o HDD: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI
* Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or higher, Apple® Safari®, or Mozilla® Firefox® web browser
For 64-bit Autodesk Maya 2011
* Microsoft Windows Vista Business (SP2 or higher), Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition (SP2 or higher), Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Apple Mac OS X 10.6.2, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.4 WS, or Fedora™ 11 operating system
* Windows and Linux: Intel® EM64T, AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, or AMD Phenom™ processor
* Mac® computer: Intel-based processor
* 2 GB RAM
* 4 GB free hard drive space
* Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card
* Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
* DVD-ROM drive
* Maya Composite media cache requirements for playback:
o 10 GB minimum, 200 GB recommended
o HDD: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, Apple Safari, or Mozilla Firefox web browser
Certified Hardware
For the latest list of certified hardware, including graphics cards, to run Autodesk® Maya® 2011, refer to the Maya 2011 certified hardware chart.
Note Maya 2011 is also capable of running on other configurations such as boutique distributions of Linux. However, enumerating systems that are not tested and cannot be supported or that fall below the requirements for a productive user experience is beyond the scope of the online qualification charts.
Autodesk reserves the right to alter product offerings and specifications at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear on this page.
