What’s New in Maya Entertainment Creation Suite

Maya 2011

Autodesk^® Maya^® 2011 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, rendering, and compositing software includes the following new and enhanced features:

• A revitalized user interface offers a more consistent, improved user experience across all supported Maya platforms.
• Skinning tools and workflows help you create better-skinned characters with more realistic deformations in less time.
• A nondestructive retargeting workflow that uses the Autodesk^® HumanIK^® 4.5 animation middleware libraries enables you to reuse, correct, and enhance motion-capture and other animation data faster and more easily.
• 3D editorial capabilities help accelerate previsualization and virtual movie-making production
• Assets and file referencing enhancements enable you to more easily segment, reuse, and exchange data with or without file referencing.

MotionBuilder 2011

Autodesk^® MotionBuilder^® 2011 3D character animation software includes the following new and enhanced features:

• NVIDIA^® PhysX^® plug-in enables better creation of rag-doll simulations.
• Improved animation layers match the behavior of those in Maya 2009 and higher, and offer better interoperability.
• Skinned characters play back faster by using the computing power of the GPU.
• Updated native Autodesk^® FBX^® 2011 format support helps eliminate extra translation steps.
• Expanded Mocap samples provide access to data for various human body types and motion to help bring characters to life.

Mudbox 2011

Autodesk^® Mudbox^® 2011 digital sculpting and texture painting software includes the following new and enhanced features:

• Deform and pose models quickly and easily to change their design, access occluded regions, present them for approval, or prepare them for map extraction.
• Selectively edit and manipulate existing paint and photo-based layers with new image adjustment brushes.
• Transfer models and scene information between Mudbox 2011 and Maya 2011with a single click.
• Extract maps using a new Vector Displacement method and represent displacements that do not simply follow the normal: for example, forms with appendages, undercuts, folds and bulges.
• Import and export multiple layers in PSD files to leverage the Adobe® PhotoShop® toolset on more demanding projects.

What’s New in 3ds Max 2011 Entertainment Creation Suite

3ds Max 2011

Autodesk^® 3ds Max^® 2011 3D modeling, animation, rendering software includes the following new and enhanced features:

• Slate, a new node-based material editor, enables you to more easily visualize and edit material component relationships.
• Quicksilver hardware renderer enables you to create high-fidelity pre-visualizations, animatics, and games-related marketing materials in less time.
• Graphite modeling and Viewport Canvas tools help accelerate modeling and texturing tasks.
• The new 3ds Max Composite feature offers high-performance, HDR-capable compositing tools and is based on technology from Autodesk^® Toxik^® software.
• 3ds Max 2010-compatible format enables you to save scene files to help manage the transition to 3ds Max 2011.

MotionBuilder 2011

Autodesk^® MotionBuilder^® 2011 3D character animation software includes the following new and enhanced features:

• NVIDIA^® PhysX^® plug-in enables better creation of rag-doll simulations.
• Improved animation layers match the behavior of those in Maya 2009 and higher, and offer better interoperability.
• Skinned characters play back faster by using the computing power of the GPU.
• Updated native Autodesk^® FBX^® 2011 format support helps eliminate extra translation steps.
• Expanded Mocap samples provide access to data for various human body types and motion to help bring characters to life.

Mudbox 2011

Autodesk^® Mudbox^® 2011 digital sculpting and texture painting software includes the following new and enhanced features:

• Deform and pose models quickly and easily to change their design, access occluded regions, present them for approval, or prepare them for map extraction.
• Selectively edit and manipulate existing paint and photo-based layers with new image adjustment brushes.
• Transfer models and scene information between Mudbox 2011 and Maya 2011with a single click.
• Extract maps using a new Vector Displacement method and represent displacements that do not simply follow the normal: for example, forms with appendages, undercuts, folds and bulges.
• Import and export multiple layers in PSD files to leverage the Adobe® PhotoShop® toolset on more demanding projects.

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