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Maya 2011 is here!
08/04/10 10:11 Filed in: Animation
| In The News
And it is official. Maya 2011 is available! I just finished downloading a 30-day trial version of Maya 2011 for OS X last night. The System Requirements on the Autodesk website states that you need OS X 10.6.2 but for the hell of it I tried installing it and it’s starting up on OS X 10.5.6. Don’t believe me, here’s my screenshot:
Time to take this bad boy for a test drive. The interface feels so much better already.
What's new in Maya 2011
09/03/10 23:07 Filed in: Animation
| In The News
Well, Maya 2011 is coming. Some of the new things it will support that is of personal interest to me are:
- Support for Mac OS X 64-bit
- Backburner
- More file formats for creating custom icons for the shelf
- The Camera Sequencer for doing layouts and managing camera shots
- Few improvements to the Graph Editor
- Point on Poly constraint
- Viewport 2.0 which will allow for navigating complex scenes with ease
There’s a few video clips here to watch, and here’s the full post listing everything.
Found this screenshot on the web. It shows the new Camera Sequencer in action. You can see multiple audio tracks are now supported too!
Project Dragonfly
01/06/09 22:18 Filed in: In The News
I accidentally stumbled upon this thing over at Autodesk Labs. It’s called Project Dragonfly. The description on their site says it best:
Streamline your next home improvement project by using Dragonfly's intuitive design tools to rapidly create and furnish your floor plan, experimenting in real time with your ideas in 2D and 3D before making it real!
I gave it a quick try and I must admit it’s not that bad. You can choose your measurements between imperial and metric. Creating rooms are super easy. If you accidentally drag the corner of a room thinking it will keep the walls 90 degrees, the walls will snap back to 90 degrees as you bring the corner closer to where it was. The selection of stuff to add into the room (doors, windows, furniture) might not be uber but it’s not crappy either. This is a great tool for you to try out a new living room couch arrangement without having to strain a back muscle, or to give the master bedroom a new coat of paint without picking up a paintbrush.
Give it a try, you might just find it handy.
Maya 2009 is coming!
12/08/08 08:51 Filed in: Animation
Autodesk Maya 2009 has been announced at SIGGRAPH (no surprise there).
Have a look at some of the new features of Maya 2009! I personally like the new render pass feature and mental ray proxy.
