*Autodesk Maya* is a highly professional solution for 3D modeling, animation
and rendering in one complete and very powerful package. It has won several
awards for professionalism and power and is one of the leading industry 3D
animation packages. One of the reasons for this is that Autodesk Maya offers
a huge amount of objects and effects to work on your projects and because
Autodesk Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted
or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (Application
Programming Interface) or one of two embedded scripting languages, the Maya
Embedded Language (MEL) or Python. This combination of of openness combined
with industry standard 3D visual effects, computer graphics, and character
animation tools is more than enough for professional film, television, game
development, and design projects. Although beginners will be completely lost
at the beginning, the Autodesk Maya interface is surprisingly well organized
for such a huge application and different elements such as dynamics,
animation or polygons are directly accessible via tabs. Within these are
advanced editing features in fields like rendering, animation and
relationships. Finally, the Timeline is at the bottom of the interface and
allows you to animate and control the evolution of your modeling project. If
you are new to Autodesk Maya however, there are lots of video tutorials and
tips on startups about how to use it. These will teach you a number of things
like rotating, keyframe animation, component selection and preview rendering.
The Help menu is also full of further tutorials and offers links to extra
learning resources. Note that to get the best out of Autodesk Maya, you do
need a three buttoned mouse to complete all of the actions possible. Although
Autodesk Maya 2012 isn't a huge change from 2011, it offers plenty of
powerful new features and has fixed many of the bugs in the previous release.
*Autodesk Maya is a solid 3D modeling application that still keeps setting
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