Autodesk Maya

Award-winning Autodesk® Maya® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation and rendering solution that enables leaders in film and television, game development, design visualization, and education to stay ahead of the game.

Maya 2008 delivers faster, more efficient tools and workflows for creating stunning, high-resolution characters, environments, and performances.

• New and Enhanced Modeling Tools and Workflows. Maya 2008 introduces considerable performance improvements and a number of new features that will make modeling workflows significantly more efficient.
• Faster, More Accurate Viewport / Hardware Rendering. Truly WYSIWYG interactive previews are several steps closer now that the Maya hardware rendering engine supports layered textures, multiple UV sets, negative lighting, and object space normal maps.
• mental ray 3.6 Core. Maya 2008 uses the latest mental ray® 3.6 core, a release that boasts dramatic performance improvements in the translation of polygon meshes and instances for rendering, as well as for IPR (Interactive Photorealistic Rendering) startup.