* Substance Smart Textures - A library of 80 dynamic, animatable and editable resolution-independent Substance smart textures and filters with a tiny disk space footprint. * Sequencer Enhancements - A Sequencer Playlist with a configurable spreadsheet view to reorder clips, edit In and Out points and change camera assignments as well as support for multi-track audio and the ability to output multiple shots as a single sequence for easier game cinematic rendering or export to a games engine. * Editable Motion Trails - Edit animation directly in the viewport, without the need to switch context to the graph editor.

* Node-Based Render Passes - Ability to create and edit node-based representations of render passes and render the composited output directly using the mental ray renderer. * Viewport 2.0 Enhancements - Now offers full-screen effects: motion blur, depth-of-field and ambient occlusion, component and manipulator displays, batch rendering capabilities and a high-performance API (application programming interface). Key New Features in Autodesk Maya 2012 Software “The high-fidelity viewport, enhancements to Nucleus and the overall performance improvements, have made Maya 2012 more flexible, powerful and modern,” said Peter Shipkov, technical director, Digital Domain. “With Maya 2012, we have continued our long-term focus on improving production efficiency as well as real-time creative iteration with enhancements to the Maya viewport addressing new trends in previsualization, virtual moviemaking and games prototyping.” “Maya continues to drive creative innovation across the film, games and television industries - from “Black Swan” to “EA SPORTS MMA” and “NCIS, new creative standards are being set in productions of all kinds,” said Marc Petit, senior vice president, Autodesk Media & Entertainment. The new release also includes single-step workflows to enable users to move 3D data directly between the latest versions of Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Autodesk Mudbox and Autodesk Softimage Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) for better pipeline integration. announced that Autodesk Maya 2012 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, rendering and compositing software now contains powerful new toolsets for previsualization and games prototyping, extended simulation capabilities and better pipeline integration. Academy Award–Winning Technology Extends Its Toolset for Previsualization, Games Prototyping and Simulation Autodesk, Inc.

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