# Learning Autodesk Maya: Foundation is a full-color book that offers students a hands-on approach for learning how to use Maya, the industry-leading 3D animation and effects software. You will work with real movie footage, interactive tutorials and step-by-step lessons to understand the basics of modeling, texturing, animating, and visual effects. The companion DVD, which includes instructor-led tutorial videos and other resources for extended learning, will further reinforce the topics covered in the book so that you can become better acquainted with the Maya User Interface.
DVD Companion Included

This presentation has a special focus on working with expressions. You will learn how to combine particle systems and fluids to produce a wide variety of effects. Learn how to make full use of fluids by writing expressions. Master water related effects such as creating foam on an ocean surface using both particles and fluids. Learn to create highly effective gaseous effects as wel as flames and explosions. Understand how to work with fluid textures plus hints on how the fluid Navier-Stokes solver of Maya an be used for crowd simulation and more. Included with this video are presenter notes and dozens of Maya files for you to use as you learn.

Learning Autodesk Maya: Foundation is a full-color book that offers students a hands-on approach for learning how to use Maya, the industry-leading 3D animation and effects software.

Holomatix Rendition is a raytracing renderer, designed to make life easier for 3D artists. It is compatible with mental ray scenes and shaders, for 3D scenes developed in Maya, 3ds Max and XSI. Rendition dynamically refines the rendered image, providing a lot of useful, immediate feedback, and converging to a final, production quality rendered image.

This presentation has a special focus on working with expressions. You will learn how to combine particle systems and fluids to produce a wide variety of effects. Learn how to make full use of fluids by writing expressions. Master water related effects such as creating foam on an ocean surface using both particles and fluids. Learn to create highly effective gaseous effects as wel as flames and explosions. Understand how to work with fluid textures plus hints on how the fluid Navier-Stokes solver of Maya an be used for crowd simulation and more. Included with this video are presenter notes and dozens of Maya files for you to use as you learn.

The basic and fundamental skills that are required by students and newcomers to 3d animation are thought with this product. The material covered in this training series is vital and builds the foundation for further advancement into 3d animation. Without the fundamental skills learned in this training series, it will be difficult to impossible to be able to continue into advanced 3d animation and digital content creation. Because the material in this training series is geared towards beginners to the world of 3d animation and 3dsMax, this training series is not recommended to experienced 3d artists. However, if you have just begun working in 3d, are thinking about it, or have little to no experience, then this training is for you. The aim of this training series is to take someone who is new to 3d animation in general and get them up and running with 3dsMax as quickly and easily as possible. If you have never worked on a real production with any 3d software, then this training series is right for you. This product was designed for 3dsMax 2009 and up.

These videos reveal the artistic and technical approach that CG artist Jeff Unay takes to model a hyper-realistic hand with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk Mudbox.
In part one you will see how to sculpt the primary forms of the hand. In part two you will follow a 2 hour time-lapse of sculpting which include Jeff's comments. In parts 3 and 4 you will continue detailing the hand and preparing for deformations. In part 5 you will see how to incorporate blend shapes for use in conjunction with the joint rig. Part 6 concludes the series through sculpting the finger and thumb deformations with a look at the final result of all shapes working with the joint rig.

Autodesk Softimage Face Robot 1.9 - program for quick and easy modeling and animating a large number of three-dimensional entities. The program is designed for creators of computer games and CG-movies, and opens new possibilities for creating facial expressions. At its core - a new computer model of the soft tissues, re-creating any faces that have screwed up under the force of a living person. Using Autodesk Softimage Face Robot 1.9 allows animators to feel at ease and concentrate on the emotions, facial expressions and behavior of the characters. Export of objects in Autodesk Maya allows you to move the character's head ready to create an integrated computer graphics character.

This presentation has a special focus on working with expressions. You will learn how to combine particle systems and fluids to produce a wide variety of effects. Learn how to make full use of fluids by writing expressions. Master water related effects such as creating foam on an ocean surface using both particles and fluids. Learn to create highly effective gaseous effects as wel as flames and explosions. Understand how to work with fluid textures plus hints on how the fluid Navier-Stokes solver of Maya an be used for crowd simulation and more. Included with this video are presenter notes and dozens of Maya files for you to use as you learn.

Autodesk® Softimage® software is a 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing solution optimized for artist efficiency. The Autodesk Softimage 2010 release boasts accelerated performance, greater data handling, the Autodesk® Face Robot® facial animation toolset, as well as new tools to help manage scene complexity.

Autodesk® Softimage® software enables you to more quickly create custom tools and amazing visual effects through the Interactive Creative Environment (ICE), a node-based visual development platform. ICE is designed to help artists be more creative and efficient, allowing them to explore new creative ideas with greater ease and simplicity. Beyond effects, you can use this production-proven 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing software for every aspect of your CG (computer graphics) workflow —whether you’re tackling a game, film, or television project.

Windows 32Bit & Windows 64Bit
Clipart included
Date: August 22nd, 2009
Type: 3D Animation
Size: DVD 24x50mb

Autodesk® MotionBuilder® real-time 3D character animation software is an ideal tool for high-volume game animation pipelines, director-driven virtual cinematography, and real-time character simulations. MotionBuilder 2010 delivers faster overall performance, expanded physics capabilities, productivity-enhancing animation workflows, and improved interoperability with Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, and Autodesk® Softimage® software.

Autodesk® Maya® 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects software offers artists an end-to-end creative workflow. Autodesk Maya 2010 software is the first release to unify the Autodesk® Maya® Complete 2009 and Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited 2009 feature sets, advanced matchmoving capabilities, and high dynamic range compositing into a single affordable package*. Also included for a complete CG workflow are 5 additional mental ray® for Maya batch** rendering nodes and the Autodesk® Backburner™† network render queue manager.

Burn® software is Autodesk's Linux®-based network processing solution for Autodesk® Inferno®, Autodesk® Flame®, Autodesk® Flint®, Autodesk® Fire®, Autodesk® Smoke®, and Autodesk® Lustre® effects systems software. Burn allows you to render images in the background using low-cost Linux workstations while simultaneously freeing your online suite for more creative tasks. With Burn, facilities can leverage a larger pool of CPU power so that complex visual effects requiring intensive processing can be created more quickly—cutting production costs and reducing time to completion on a project—a significant advantage when creating the complex visual effects required for today's demanding feature film, HDTV, and video projects.

"Burn software gives our Autodesk Flame and Autodesk Inferno systems their greatest flexibility yet," explains Brian Hanable, Senior Interactive Compositing Artist, Sony Pictures Imageworks. "Using four Burn nodes and Flame, we are able to render 2K film build pieces on Burn while still adjusting the rest of the composite in proxy mode. We check the Backburner manager to monitor the progress, and when those renders are done, we can swap out the proxies with the rendered 2K results. Our team can keep on working throughout the process and rendering process-intensive ADN Sparks is also maximized," concludes Hanable.

Autodesk Maya is 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects software offers artists an end-to-end creative workflow. Autodesk Maya 2010 software is the first release to unify the Autodesk® Maya® Complete 2009 and Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited 2009 feature sets, advanced matchmoving capabilities, and high dynamic range compositing into a single affordable package. Also included for a complete CG workflow are 5 additional mental ray® for Maya batch rendering nodes and the Autodesk Backburner network render queue manager.

Autodesk® Maya® 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects software offers artists an end-to-end creative workflow. Autodesk Maya 2010 software is the first release to unify the Autodesk® Maya® Complete 2009 and Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited 2009 feature sets, advanced matchmoving capabilities, and high dynamic range compositing into a single affordable package. Also included for a complete CG workflow are 5 additional mental ray® for Maya batch rendering nodes and the Autodesk® Backburner™ network render queue manager.

Award-winning Autodesk® Maya® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution. Because 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. This, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D tools, means Maya enables you to realize your creative ideas.

The award-winning Autodesk Maya software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, and rendering solution. Because 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 level of openness, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D visual effects, computer graphics, and character animation tools, enables you to realize your creative vision for your film, television, game development, and design projects.

Autodesk® ImageModeler™ image-based modeling and photogrammetry software generates 3D models from 2D digital images, giving architects, designers, and entertainment content creators a new approach to 3D modeling.

Bridging the 2D and 3D worlds, Autodesk ImageModeler enables you to capture the reality as-built, take measurements of buildings, and easily create photorealistic 3D models. Editing, modeling, and texturing tools allow you to further edit, refine, and texture your rendered objects. Your 3D objects can then be exported into different formats.

Features
Autodesk® ImageModeler™ image-based modeling software is easy to learn, enabling architects and designers to create a 3D model, starting from 2D images, in just a few hours. Creating a 3D model becomes as simple as drawing lines on images. ImageModeler also has editing, modeling, and texturing tools.

* Calibration Engine
* 3D Measurement Toolset
* CAD and Other Interoperability
* Modeling Technology
* Texturing
* User Interface

Autodesk® 3ds Max® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, and rendering application. Its easy-to-learn environment enables artists to quickly ramp up for production. 3ds Max is used by film and video artists, game developers, multimedia designers (print and web), design visualization professionals, and 3D enthusiasts to achieve stunning results in less time. 3ds Max is the leader in 3D animation for game development, design visualization, visual effects, and education.

Create stunning 3D in less time with Autodesk® 3ds® Max software. This full-featured 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and effects solution is used to produce top-selling games and award-winning film and video content. Those looking to quickly and efficiently generate convincing characters, seamless CG effects, or jaw-dropping games will want to explore this latest release of the software.

With 3ds Max 2009, Biped now offers animators a more efficient workflow for rigging quadrupeds, together with other features that facilitate the character animation process. The release also delivers new UV editing features including a UV spline mapping tool, and enhanced Pelt and Relax toolsets that streamline the UVW unwrap workflow.

Autodesk® Toxik™ software is a node-based digital compositing and visual effects solution with advanced image processing capabilities. The software’s architecture is built around its ultra-high resolution interaction and high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) core, which allows you to work interactively and intuitively with virtually any visual media, regardless of bit depth or image size.

With its intuitive toolsets, open architecture, and high level of interoperability with Autodesk® Maya® software, Toxik is the ideal compositor for independent 2D visual effects artists to large-scale film and broadcast facilities.

Autodesk Toxik software brings compositing and visual effects tools to high-end 2D effects artists working at HD, 2K, 4K or above, in film, television, and design.

Find out more about why Toxik is the ideal companion to Autodesk Maya 3D modeling, animation, and visual effects software.

Key enhancements include Render Pass and Render Layer Import from Autodesk Maya and a suite of tools to support stereoscopic productions.

Autodesk® ImageModeler™ image-based modeling and photogrammetry software generates 3D models from 2D digital images, giving architects, designers, and entertainment content creators a new approach to 3D modeling.

Bridging the 2D and 3D worlds, Autodesk ImageModeler enables you to capture the reality as-built, take measurements of buildings, and easily create photorealistic 3D models. Editing, modeling, and texturing tools allow you to further edit, refine, and texture your rendered objects. Your 3D objects can then be exported into different formats.

Features
Autodesk® ImageModeler™ image-based modeling software is easy to learn, enabling architects and designers to create a 3D model, starting from 2D images, in just a few hours. Creating a 3D model becomes as simple as drawing lines on images. ImageModeler also has editing, modeling, and texturing tools.

* Calibration Engine
* 3D Measurement Toolset
* CAD and Other Interoperability
* Modeling Technology
* Texturing
* User Interface

Autodesk® MotionBuilder® is the industry-leading, real-time 3D character animation software for games, feature film, and television productions. With its core focus on interactive real-time workflows, MotionBuilder enables creative and technical artists to take on demanding, animation-intensive projects. MotionBuilder is a professional package designed for 3D data acquisition, manipulation, and visualization, which makes it not only an animation productivity solution, but a tool that drives the iterative process of creativity.

What’s New in Autodesk Motion Builder 2009:
With its unique real-time, interactive 3D environment, Autodesk® MotionBuilder® 2009 software is an ideal choice for both animation production and virtual cinematography. Production teams are discovering that the real-time interactivity of Autodesk MotionBuilder not only makes animators far more productive, but it puts the creative control back in the hands of directors and cinematographers. This new release gives animators, technical directors, and moviemakers high-quality, interactive visualizations within the 3D viewport, an intuitive toolset for creating real-time simulations and expanded script development for tighter pipeline integration.

Poser Pro, the 3D character solution for production, integrates scenes with 3D applications. Includes COLLADA, 64-bit render engine, Network Rendering. Save time with pre-built characters and props.

Professional 3D Figure Design & Animation

Geared towards a multitude of production environments, Poser Pro offers professional-level application integration as well as a 64-Bit render engine and network rendering support. The Poser Pro bottom line - reduce design and production time and access thousands of rigged and textured models.

Better Integration with Professional Environments:

Realize the added benefit of quickly animating with Poser Pro's pre-rigged characters inside of host applications such as Autodesk's 3ds Max and Maya, and Maxon's CINEMA 4D.

Maximum Flexibility:
The industry standard COLLADA™ data exchange format combined with content built specifically for Poser Pro greatly enhances the versatility of the already 30,000 plus 3D models available through www.ContentParadise.com.

Autodesk Maya® (formerly Alias Systems Corporation) - Academy Award® winning software is the world’s most powerfully integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution. Because Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (Application Program Interface), or one of two integrated scripting languages. This, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D tools, means Maya enables you to realize your creative ideas. Maya also adds to the quality and realism of 2D graphics. That’s why Autodesk Maya is used by film and video artists, game developers, design visualization professionals, and students to create engaging, lifelike digital images, realistic animation, and extraordinary visual effects.

The ultimate version of Maya—Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited—is the choice of digital artists who are looking to make their 3D projects stand out. Maya Unlimited includes all the functionality found in Autodesk Maya Complete and provides professional artists and animators with additional industry leading-innovations such as Maya Fluid Effects, Maya® nCloth, Maya Hair, Maya Fur and Maya Live, for the creation of superior digital content.

Autodesk Maya Unlimited contains everything in Autodesk Maya Complete, plus:
- Maya Hair
- Maya Fluid Effects
- Maya Cloth
- Maya Fur
- Maya Live

Autodesk® 3ds Max® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, and rendering application. Its easy-to-learn environment enables artists to quickly ramp up for production. 3ds Max is used by film and video artists, game developers, multimedia designers (print and web), design visualization professionals, and 3D enthusiasts to achieve stunning results in less time. 3ds Max is the leader in 3D animation for game development, design visualization, visual effects, and education.

Create stunning 3D in less time with Autodesk® 3ds® Max software. This full-featured 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and effects solution is used to produce top-selling games and award-winning film and video content. Those looking to quickly and efficiently generate convincing characters, seamless CG effects, or jaw-dropping games will want to explore this latest release of the software.

With 3ds Max 2009, Biped now offers animators a more efficient workflow for rigging quadrupeds, together with other features that facilitate the character animation process. The release also delivers new UV editing features including a UV spline mapping tool, and enhanced Pelt and Relax toolsets that streamline the UVW unwrap workflow.

With 3ds Max 2009, you get the information you want, the way you want it. Greater OBJ translation fidelity and more import/export options mean more accurate data transfers between 3ds Max and Autodesk® Mudbox™ or other digital modeling packages. 3ds Max 2009 also delivers improved Autodesk FBX® memory management and new import options that support interoperability between 3ds Max and other products such as Autodesk® Maya® and Autodesk® MotionBuilder™.

3ds Max 2009 Features:
With each new release, Autodesk software solutions become more intuitive and user friendly, while gaining functionality and a broader tool set. The following videos introduce the new features and functionality of Autodesk® 3ds Max® software.

Modeling and Animation
With the introduction of the ForeFeet option, Biped now fully supports four-legged characters, In this video, animators see that the center of mass can be animated using external pivots, like the working pivot, making it easier to create realistic body movements like falling forward. Animators also see how the Walkthrough Assistant simplifies the process of creating walk-throughs and how soft selections can be interactively adjusted with a few mouse-clicks.

an interface guide for maya designed by autodesk for beginers and overview for professionals .

mental ray® Standalone software is a high-performance rendering engine for generating photorealistic images. Although mental ray rendering technology is featured in Autodesk® applications such as Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® VIZ, and Autodesk® ImageStudio software, the standalone version is best suited when you have large volumes of data to process. It works independently of your 3D software of choice through a command-line interface. It can also act as the foundation of your distributed rendering solution when used with your Autodesk software. The choice is you­rs.

Autodesk Maya® (formerly Alias Systems Corporation) - Academy Award® winning software is the world’s most powerfully integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution. Because Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (Application Program Interface), or one of two integrated scripting languages. This, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D tools, means Maya enables you to realize your creative ideas. Maya also adds to the quality and realism of 2D graphics. That’s why Autodesk Maya is used by film and video artists, game developers, design visualization professionals, and students to create engaging, lifelike digital images, realistic animation, and extraordinary visual effects.

The ultimate version of Maya—Autodesk® Maya® Unlimited—is the choice of digital artists who are looking to make their 3D projects stand out. Maya Unlimited includes all the functionality found in Autodesk Maya Complete and provides professional artists and animators with additional industry leading-innovations such as Maya Fluid Effects, Maya® nCloth, Maya Hair, Maya Fur and Maya Live, for the creation of superior digital content.