Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2013

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Buy an Autodesk^® Maya Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2013 software license online with Autodesk Subscription and get convenient access to the following benefits:

Software upgrades—Stay current with the latest releases and product enhancements.
Flexible licensing—Work with previous versions of your software. Use it at home or in multiple locations.
Technical support—Resolve issues and get back to work with online help from product support specialists.

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Top Benefits

With the Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2013, you can take on a wider range of projects, achieve faster results, and explore new creative avenues—at a significant cost savings.

The suite includes:

Autodesk^® Maya^®
Autodesk^® Softimage^®
Autodesk^® MotionBuilder^®
Autodesk^® Mudbox^®
Autodesk^® SketchBook^® Designer

Maya Entertainment Creation Suite Premium features include:

Comprehensive 3D toolsets—Autodesk Maya software gives you access to a production-proven package for 3D modeling, animation, effects, rendering, and compositing.
New creative possibilities—Help create compelling effects, procedural models, and crowd simulations using the intuitive Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) within Autodesk^® Softimage^® software, and quickly create high-quality facial animation with the included Autodesk^® Face Robot^® toolset.
Intuitive digital sculpting and painting—Create highly detailed organic models with ease, using the intuitive sculpting, texturing, and painting toolsets of Autodesk^® Mudbox^® software.
Real-time, nonlinear animation and virtual production—Help increase overall character animation output and explore the emerging genre of virtual production with the interactive 3D engine, motion capture data handling toolsets, and nonlinear editing paradigm of Autodesk^® MotionBuilder^® software.
High-quality baking—Easily create global illumination for next-generation games and then bake into texture maps, vertex maps, or point clouds with the Turtle for Autodesk Maya 2013 plug-in.†
Creative concept art sketching—Explore and present new ideas for characters, props, and environments with the intuitive hybrid paint and vector toolset of Autodesk^® SketchBook^® Designer software.
Single-step interoperability—Help maximize creative potential and optimize productivity with new single-step interoperability workflows and more consistent user interfaces in many of these 2013 releases.

† Turtle for Autodesk Maya 2013 plug-in available only in the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 that include Autodesk Maya.

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Benefits	Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate with Subscription Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate with Subscription offers powerful 3D modeling and animation tools plus Autodesk® 360 cloud storage, software upgrades, flexible licenses, and technical support. Includes: Autodesk® Maya® AND Autodesk® 3ds Max® Autodesk® MotionBuilder® Autodesk® Mudbox® Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer Autodesk® Softimage® Intended for: Animators Modelers Visual effects artists Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate with Subscription US$9,595 MSRP*	Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate offers industry-leading 3D modeling and animation tools integrated into a cohesive solution through single-step interoperability workflows. Includes: Autodesk® Maya® AND Autodesk® 3ds Max® Autodesk® MotionBuilder® Autodesk® Mudbox® Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer Autodesk® Softimage® Intended for: Animators Modelers Visual effects artists Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate US$8,395 MSRP*	Autodesk Maya Autodesk Maya 3D animation software delivers production-proven tools for 3D modeling, animation, simulation, rendering, and compositing. Includes: 3D modeling 3D animation Dynamics and effects 3D rendering and imaging Pipeline integration Intended for: Animators Modelers Visual effects artists Autodesk® Maya® US$3,675 MSRP*	Autodesk 3ds Max Autodesk 3ds Max software provides powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, simulation, rendering, and compositing tools. Includes: 3D modeling, shading and texturing Animation, dynamics, effects, and simulation Rendering, compositing, and display Intended for: Game developers Visual effects artists Motion graphics artists Autodesk® 3ds Max® US$3,675 MSRP*
Model believable characters and environments Model the way you want using the extensive polygonal, subdivision surface, and NURBS toolsets.
Digital sculpting and painting Create highly detailed organic models using the intuitive sculpting, texturing, and painting toolsets of Autodesk Mudbox software.
Production-proven animation toolsets Create, skin, rig, and pose characters with realistic deformations using a broad range of 3D tools for keyframe, procedural, and scripted animation.
Motion capture and animation retargeting More reliably acquire, aggregate, and refine data, and access a new nonlinear editing paradigm for virtual production with Autodesk MotionBuilder software.
Lifelike facial animation Quickly rig and animate realistic human facial setups and take advantage of automated lip-syncing with Autodesk® Face Robot® in Autodesk Softimage software.
Realistic simulations Create realistic rigid and soft body dynamics, hair, fur, cloth, fluids, and particle simulations using the core toolsets of Autodesk Maya and/or Autodesk 3ds Max software.
Procedural effects without scripting Create compelling effects and crowd simulations using the intuitive Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) within Autodesk Softimage software.
3D previsualization Create character, prop, and environment assets to plan shots prior to production.
2D previsualization Quickly explore and present new ideas for characters, props, and environments using the intuitive hybrid paint and vector toolset in Autodesk SketchBook Designer.
Efficient data transfer Benefit from enhanced single-step interoperability between Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Softimage, Autodesk MotionBuilder, and Autodesk Mudbox software, made possible with Autodesk® FBX® asset exchange technology.
More consistent toolsets Unified hotkeys for viewport navigation, and more consistent user interfaces and f-curve editors make it easier to transition between the toolsets within the suite.
Interoperability with Adobe® products Output rendering in a layered PSD format and enjoy two-way data exchange with Adobe® After Effects® software (functionality varies by product).
Customization and extensibility Work the way you want to with Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Autodesk Softimage software. Customize user interfaces, and create scripts and plug-ins to enhance features and automate processes.
Software upgrades Stay current with access to the latest software releases.
Flexible licensing Work with previous versions of your software. Use it at home or in multiple locations.
Technical support Resolve technical issues and keep your production running with help from product support specialists.

Functions	Entertainment Creation Suite
Functions	Standard US$5,775 MSRP*	Premium US$6,825 MSRP*	Ultimate US$8,395 MSRP*
Comprehensive 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and effects software to help address growing production demands in the film, television, and game industries
Flexibility to use both Maya and 3ds Max in a blended animation pipeline; enable artists and clients to work with their preferred tools
High-performance compositing with keying, tracking, color correction, raster and vector paint, rotoscoping, warping, and advanced filters
Real-time character animation environment with robust retargeting and motion capture data editing tools for increased overall animation output
Virtual production toolset with nonlinear editing paradigm for animation to help artists and directors work together to refine a creative vision in real time
Intuitive digital sculpting and texture painting for highly detailed organic models
Sophisticated crowd simulations with large numbers of characters interacting intelligently with each other and their environment
Visual, node-based workflows for the rapid creation of powerful tools and effects
Faster and easier facial rigging and character animation, featuring automatic lip-syncing
Sophisticated global illumination rendering and baking, designed for higher-quality, next-generation game development	†	†
Single-step round-trip data transfer between Autodesk® Mudbox® and Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, or Autodesk® Softimage® software††
Vector Displacement Map support enables high-resolution details created in Mudbox software to be transferred to Maya, 3ds Max, or Softimage software†† for rendering on low-resolution geometry
Single-step data-transfer between Autodesk® MotionBuilder® software and Maya and 3ds Max software
Single-step workflows enable the power of Softimage Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) effects to be used in a Maya or 3ds Max scene
More consistent, enhanced f-curve editor in Maya, 3ds Max, MotionBuilder, and Softimage software††
Hybrid paint and vector workflow for creative concept art sketching

Products	Entertainment Creation Suite
Products	Standard US$5,775 MSRP*	Premium US$6,825 MSRP*	Ultimate US$8,395 MSRP*
Autodesk® Maya®† OR Autodesk® 3ds Max®
Autodesk® Maya®† AND Autodesk® 3ds Max®
Autodesk® Softimage®
Autodesk® MotionBuilder®
Autodesk® Mudbox®
Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer

System Requirements

Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 System Requirements

The system requirements below are for users running many of the following products on the same system. Note that the systems requirements for individual products may differ from those in this document. You can find details on those requirements by visiting the appropriate product center.

Autodesk^® 3ds Max^® 2013 software
Autodesk^® Maya^® 2013 software
Autodesk^® MotionBuilder^® 2013 software
Autodesk^® Mudbox^® 2013 software
Autodesk^® Softimage^® 2013 software

Software

The 32-bit version is supported by the following operating systems:

Microsoft^® Windows^® 7 Professional operating system (SP1)
Microsoft^® Windows^® XP Professional operating system (SP3)

The 64-bit version is supported by any of the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional operating system (SP1)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2)

Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 32-bit and 64-bit software requires the following supplemental software:

Microsoft^® Internet Explorer^® 7 internet browser or higher
Apple^® Safari^® web browser
Mozilla^® Firefox^® web browser

Hardware

At a minimum, the 32-bit version requires a system with the following hardware:

Windows: Intel^® Pentium^® 4 processor, AMD Athlon^™ processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
2 GB RAM
Autodesk^® Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 Standard will require a minimum of 14 GB free disk space
Autodesk^® Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 Premium will require a minimum of 15 GB free disk space
Autodesk^® Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 Ultimate will require a minimum of 17 GB free disk space
Education Suite for Entertainment Creation Suites 2013 will require a minimum of 17 GB free disk space
Users should allocate an additional 2 GB hard drive space for swap space
Qualified 512 MB hardware-accelerated OpenGL^® 2.0 (and higher) professional graphics card
Three-button mouse with mouse driver software or certified Wacom^® tablet
USB 2.0 except for the Education Suite for Entertainment Creation which will require a DVD-ROM drive

At a minimum, the 64-bit version requires a system with the following hardware:

Windows: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
4 GB RAM
Entertainment Creation Suites Standard will require a minimum of 14 GB free disk space
Entertainment Creation Suites Premium will require a minimum of 15 GB free disk space
Entertainment Creation Suites Ultimate will require a minimum of 17 GB free disk space
Education Suite for Entertainment Creation will require a minimum of 17 GB free disk space
Users should allocate an additional 2 GB hard drive space for swap space
Qualified 512 MB hardware-accelerated OpenGL 2.0 (and higher) professional graphics card
Three-button mouse with mouse driver software or certified Wacom tablet
USB 2.0 except for the Education Suite for Entertainment Creation which will require a DVD-ROM drive

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