Platform : Linux x86_64 System Requirements : OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 WS or Fedora 11 / Ubuntu 9.10, LinuxMint 7 .. . 2GB RAM 4 GB free hard disk space Graphics card with OpenGL hardware acceleration from the list of compatible Three button mouse driver installed Claims Maya Composite to cache size: Minimum 10 GB of free hard disk space recommended 200 GB Hard Drive: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI Browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Google Chrome.

Autodesk Maya 2010 Multilanguage

Mac Platform: Intel
Includes: K

OS version: 10.5.7 and upper
Processor type(s) & speed: Intel + Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL Graphic Card
RAM minimum: 2GB
Video RAM: 256MB

Secrets of the Maya Underworld is Historical Documentary hosted by Simon MacCorkindale and published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Natural World series in 2005 - English narration

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.

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Mental Ray for Maya Satellite this is a new kind of network rendering engine that takes advantage of additional processors for mental ray engine for Maya render. This makes it possible to increase the speed of interactive miscalculation (including IPR), to increase productivity batch rendering (including launch from the command line), affect the coverage (pre lighting) textures and points. Mental Ray for Maya Satellite is no substitute for mental ray Standalone for applications such as render farm.

Joe Alters Shave & Haircut 5.1 V 4 for Maya 2010 x32Bit / x64Bit - 37 MB

Joe Alter Shave and a Haircut is a plugin for Maya, that creates extra realistic hair and fur surfaces. With this, you can create furry animals, grasses, haircuts, mustaches and so on. And this is not only about extra rendering-realistic, but also extra dynamic-realistic hair/fur. Combining advantages from both Maya Fur and Maya Hair modules inside itself, JA S&H is a perfect decision for your production. It makes creating of haircuts much easier with much finer level of control and much less rendering time. S&H also MentalRay- and RenderMan-compatible, so you can create super-photorealistic renderings using with no additional compositing.

Shave and a Haircut 2 has made creating and rendering CG hair an absolute pleasure for us, both on past projects and our current show Hellboy . It's entire range of hair-based effects from scraggly beards to full length hair, come out looking beautiful with surprisingly minimal render times. Shave will remain an integral part of our digital double production pipeline for many projects to come.

V-Ray - The system of rendering (imaging), developed by Chaos Group. V-Ray had worked well in the architectural rendering, widely used in film and on television, thanks to a good relationship between the rate rendering of image quality and great opportunities. V-Ray is fully constructed on the basis of the Monte Carlo method (Quasi Monte Carlo - QMC, and its further implementation of the firm - DMC).

In this series of lessons, we will learn the process of rendering your Maya scene into multiple passes, and using some advanced techniques for compositing these passes using Toxik.