Maya is a dramatically new approach to character animation that also strengthens the company's leadership position in visual effects technology. The advanced architecture of Maya delivers unmatched system speed and a streamlined workflow, resulting in significantly increased productivity. Additionally, Maya provides an unprecedented level of openness, allowing customers to easily extend the system to meet their specific production requirements.
Customers can now choose the platform that is appropriate to the task or user.
Users will get the power of Maya's unique 3D capabilities on Intel Architecture-based workstations. This is another indication that the Intel platform is capable of meeting the needs of the most demanding artists and animators. Maya allows TDs to build characters with embedded behaviors and higher level controls so that animators can quickly and intuitively interact with them as digital puppets. Maya combines an extensible and fully-integrated particle system with rigid and soft body dynamics technology for creating realistic simulations that accurately reflect physical forces on objects as they collide, bounce, roll, slide and deform without the time consuming process of key framing. The mood of a scene can be easily set with extensive lighting controls that let animators quickly experiment with position, color, fall off and light intensity.