| According
to Autodesk's Media & Entertainment senior vice president Marc Petit, "We
are celebrating the work done with Autodesk Maya over the past 10 years by many
artists and creative visionaries in film, television production and games, as
well as in industrial design and architecture. We designed Maya 2009 as a tribute
to creative innovation and production efficiency. The new release will allow artists
to raise the bar and deliver even more ground breaking computer graphics work."
Commenting
on the features of Maya 2009, Vishal Anand, Visual Computing Labs (VCL), a division
of Tata Elexsi, said "We are looking forward to the launch of Maya 2009 in
India as it will change the way artists think about dynamics, rendering, compositing
and pipelines. This new workflow will optimize render times for multiple render
layers and, in turn, elevate the quality of work. Maya has an intuitive user interface,
which facilitates customization and fine-tuning of effective workflows."
Maya
2009 gives modelers and texture artists
unprecedented control over polygon modeling
and UV texturing through powerful selection
management features, efficient modeling
workflows and precision UV unfolding and
layout options, the company said.
Tighter
schedules and budgets demand that projects and pipelines take full advantage of
available resources. Maya 2009 supports collaborative, iterative workflows and
promotes data reuse. The software has a new animation layering paradigm that provides
animators with increased non-destructive flexibility, as well as an updated Render
Pass toolset that offers precise control over render output and optimizes integration
with Autodesk Toxik procedural compositing software. | 
