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.

• New Selection Paradigm
• Powerful new selection features in Maya 2009,including true soft selection and preselectionhighlighting, mean fewer mouse-clicks and lesstrial and error for common tasks.
• Improved Modeling Workflow
• Maya 2009 delivers intuitive, productive modelingenhancements, including symmetrical modeling withsoft seams, a tweak mode for rapid modifications,and a new Merge Vertex feature that helps youaccurately combine parts of a mesh.
• Maya Assets
• With Maya Assets, you can effectively organize,share, reference, and present complex data. MayaAssets enable you to encapsulate a set of nodesinto a container so that they can be treated as ifthey were a single node from a user’s perspective:selected attributes of interest from the containednodes can be published to the container. This newfeature also supports customized and user-specificviews, flexible referencing, and the creation ofasset libraries.
• Animation Layering
• A powerful new animation layering paradigm, builton technology from Autodeskо MotionBuilderоsoftware, gives you more flexibility as younondestructively create and edit animation. Thistoolset works with any attribute; animation layerscan be blended, merged, grouped, and reordered,and can override or add to preceding layers
• Maya nParticles
• Maya 2009 introduces the second module builton the highly acclaimed Maya Nucleus unifiedsimulation framework: Maya nParticles. Thisnewest toolset gives you an intuitive, efficientworkflow for simulating a wide range of complexeffects, including liquids, clouds, smoke, spray,and dust. nParticles features particle-to-particlecollisions, particle and nCloth bidirectionalinteraction, powerful constraints, cloud and“blobby” hardware display, preset rendering,and dynamic behaviors.
• Render Pass Enhancements
• A completely updated Render Pass feature setoffers precise control over render output, offeringgreater opportunity for creative refinement andmaking it easier to optimize integration withcompositing packages such as Autodeskо Toxik™software.
• Maya Muscle
• Maya 2009 includes Maya Muscle, a comprehensivemuscle and skin system that helps you createlifelike skin motion. This toolset enables you todirect muscle and skin behavior precisely, withsecondary motion, collisions, wrinkles, sliding, andstickiness―all built in.
• UV Layout Enhancements
• The ability to preserve UVs (when making modelingedits after the fact) as well as new UV unfoldingand layout options―including an interactivemode―help to increase your productivity bystreamlining the otherwise time-consuming task ofcreating optimal texture coordinates.
• Render Proxy
• A new Render Proxy feature in mental rayо renderingtechnology enables you to replace scene elementswith a simple low-resolution mesh, and only loadthe pretranslated data when required for rendering.

• For 32-bit Autodesk Maya 2010
• Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business (SP1 or higher), Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP2 or higher), or Apple® Mac OS® X 10.5.7 or higher operating system
• Windows: Intel® Pentium® 4 or higher, AMD Athlon™ 64, or AMD Opteron™ processor
• Macintosh® computer: Intel processor
• 2 GB RAM
• 2 GB free hard drive space
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
• Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
• DVD-ROM drive
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher, Netscape® 7 or higher, Apple® Safari®, or Mozilla® Firefox® web browser
• For 64-bit Autodesk Maya 2010
• Microsoft Windows Vista Business (SP1 or higher), Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition (SP2 or higher), Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.3 WS, or Fedora™ 8 operating system
• Windows and Linux: Intel® EM64T, AMD Athlon 64, or AMD Opteron processor
• 2 GB RAM
• 2 GB free hard drive space
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card
• Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
• DVD-ROM drive
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, Netscape 7 or higher, Apple Safari, or Mozilla Firefox web browser