Autodesk Maya

Create 3D animations and visual effects for film, video games, and television on a highly extensible production platform designed to help accelerate pipelines while offering advanced creative capabilities.

Benefits of Autodesk Subscription and Autodesk 360

Purchase Autodesk® Subscription with your Autodesk® Maya® software to get convenient access to the following benefits*:
• The Latest Software—Stay current with the latest releases and product enhancements.
• Flexible Licensing—Work with previous versions of your software. Use it at home or in multiple locations.
• Basic Technical Support—Resolve issues and get back to work with online help from Autodesk support specialists.

*All Subscription benefits may not be available for all products in all languages and/or geographies.

What's New

Create higher-quality characters, props, environments, and visual effects with Autodesk Maya 2014 3D animation software. Maya helps increase production pipeline efficiency with new next-generation display technology, more efficient workflows, and new tools for handling complex data.

Accelerate modeling workflows with an expanded, integrated feature set built on technology from the NEX toolset from dRaster. New functions:

• Access new selection, transformation, and mesh-editing tools in one place with the new Modeling Toolkit panel.
• Work on posed meshes, with new topology-based Symmetry tools.
• Retopologize meshes using the new Quad Draw tool.
• Reduce clicks with a new Multi-Cut tool that combines Split/Cut Faces and Insert Edge Loop tools.

Automatically center joints in a mesh with the new Snap to Projected Center snapping mode. Create symmetric joint chains with new Joint Tool options.

Create large, complex worlds more easily with new Scene Assembly tools for smarter data that help you:

• Manage production assets in Maya as discrete elements, each with complete support for multiple representations.
• Easily swap between certain different representations, varying levels of detail, so you can select an appropriate balance between fidelity and performance for the task at hand.
• Apply, animate, or query edits at levels in the scene assembly hierarchy.
• Track overrides on assemblies via an improved edits system for better collaborative workflows.
• Use the robust API to customize the toolset to create proprietary solutions.

Mark up animation directly within the 3D scene with the Grease Pencil, an intuitive animation tool that directors, clients and others can easily use to record notes and mark up performances.

Quickly and easily diagnose and fix broken file paths with a new File Path Editor, and work with non-local data with new URI support.

System Requirements

For 64-bit Maya 2014
• Windows® 7 or Windows 8 Professional, Apple® Mac OS® X 10.7.x or 10.8.x, or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.2 WS operating system
• Three-button mouse

• Intel® or AMD® multi-core processor
• 4 GB of RAM minimum (8 GB recommended)
• 2 GB of free disk space for installation
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer®, Apple® Safari®, or Mozilla® Firefox® web browser