Maya Complete 2008 includes toolsets for:

• Modeling
  
• Animation
  
• Visual Effects
  
• Rendering
  
• Paint Tools
  
• Toon Shading
  

PLUS:

• Maya API/SDK, Python® and MEL Scripting
  
• Tutorials and Documentation

NEW Features Include:

• Maya 2008 introduces considerable performance improvements and a number of new features that will make modeling workflows significantly more efficient. The Maya Mesh Smooth workflow, for instance, has been dramatically streamlined: You can now preview a smoothed mesh while editing the mesh cage—with superb performance, particularly on multiprocessor workstations. Other much-requested workflow enhancements include the ability to position objects along a curve, replace objects within a scene and convert instances to objects. Additionally, a new Slide Edge feature—as well as significant enhancements to Booleans, Bevel, Bridge, Reduce and other tools—let you model more efficiently. Maya 2008 also delivers two new selection management features: X-Ray selection highlighting and the ability to “pick walk” edge loops.
• Faster, More Accurate Viewport / Hardware Rendering - Truly WYSIWYG interactive previews are several steps closer now that the Maya hardware rendering engine supports layered textures, multiple UV sets, negative lighting and object space normal maps. Not only does this improve preview fidelity when using the High Quality renderer in the interactive viewport, it allows a greater range of effects to be rendered to final output using the Maya hardware renderer. Moreover, accelerated draw and selection performance, together with more efficient updating of UI elements, facilitates level editing and speeds overall workflows.
• Support for DirectX HLSL Shaders - With Maya you can effectively create and display sophisticated looks for content destined for the next-generation game consoles. In particular, native support for DirectX® HLSL shaders (in addition to the existing CgFX support), can let you work with assets in the viewport and see them as they will be seen on the target console.
  
• Nondestructive Skin Editing - Animators and animation technical directors usually find it necessary to work iteratively on their rigged characters. Maya 2008 can streamline iterative skinning workflows by enabling you to modify the skeleton of a bound character, without having to rebind it after, thus preserving any work done after the skeleton was bound. This process is supported through new tools for inserting, moving, deleting, connecting and disconnecting joints on a bound skeleton, as well as support for multiple bind poses.
• API Enhancements - Game developers can now more easily write high-performance hardware shading plug-ins for Maya using the new API for hardware shaders. This API includes native support for OpenGL® and DirectX® shaders, built-in support for shader parameters and direct access to the Maya rendering cache. Also, a new constraints API can allow plug-in developers to write their own animation constraint nodes and commands derived from the underlying Maya constraint node and command architecture. This makes it easier to write custom constraints and have them interact with the rest of Maya in a manner similar to built-in constraints.
  
• mental ray 3.6 Core - Maya 2008 uses the latest mental ray® 3.6 core, a release that boasts dramatic performance improvements in the translation of polygon meshes and instances for rendering, as well as for IPR (Interactive Photorealistic Rendering) startup. Additionally, particle types previously supported only in the Maya Hardware renderer can now be rendered in mental ray, eliminating the need to combine outputs from multiple renderers.
• Expanded Platform Support - Support for Windows Vista™ operating system has been added, enabling customers to take advantage of the performance capabilities of this recent technology.
  

System Requirements:

Software

The 32-bit version of Autodesk® Maya® 2008 software is supported on any of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Business
  
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP2 or higher)
  
• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4.0 WS (U4) openSuSE Linux 10.2
  Fedora™ Core 5
  
• Apple® Mac OS® X 10.4.9 (PowerPC® and Intel® versions of Maya)
  

The 64-bit version of Maya 2008 software is supported on any of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows Vista Business
  
• Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition (SP1 or higher)
  
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 WS (U4) openSuSE Linux 10.2
  
• Fedora Core 5
  

These web browsers are supported for Autodesk Maya 2008:

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher
  
• Netscape® 7 or higher
  
• Apple® Safari™
  
• Mozilla Firefox™
  

Hardware

At a minimum, the 32-bit version of Maya 2008 software requires a system with the following hardware:

• Windows and Linux: Intel Pentium® 4 or higher, AMD Athlon® 64 or AMD Opteron® processor
  
• Macintosh®: Power Mac® G5 or Intel®-based Macintosh® computers
  
• 2 GB RAM
  
• 2 GB hard disk space
  
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
  
• Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
  
• DVD-ROM drive
  

At a minimum, the 64-bit version of Maya 2008 software requires a system with the following hardware:

• Windows and Linux: Intel EM64T, AMD Athlon 64 or AMD Opteron processor
  
• 2 GB RAM
  
• 2 GB hard disk space
  
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card
  
• Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
  
• DVD-ROM drive
  

Note: Maya 2008 is also capable of running on other hardware configurations such as the Power Mac G4 or boutique distributions of Linux. However, enumerating systems that are not tested and cannot be supported or that fall below the requirements for a productive user experience is beyond the scope of the online qualification charts.

Educational Pricing

* Includes mandatory subs

• Autodesk Home
• Students & Staff

• Autodesk Campus Agreement
• Autodesk Secondary Schools Bundles
• Autodesk Animation Academy

Platform, Geospatial & Plant

• AutoCAD 2008
• New - AutoCAD 2009
• AutoCAD Map 3D 2008
• New - AutoCAD Map 3D 2009
• AutoCAD Raster Design 2008
• New - AutoCAD Raster Design 2009

Manufacturing Solutions Division

• AutoCAD Electrical 2008
• New - AutoCAD Electrical 2009
• Inventor Pro 2008
• New - InventorPro 2009
• AutoStudio 2008

Architecture, Engineering & Construction

• AutoCAD Architecture 2008
• New - AutoCAD Architecture 2009
• AutoCAD MEP 2008
• New - AutoCAD MEP 2009
• Revit Architecture Suite 2008
• New - Revit Architecture Suite 2009
• Revit MEP Suite 2008
• New - Revit MEP Suite 2009
• Revit Structure Suite 2008
• New - Revit Structure Suite 2009
• AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008
• New - Civil 3D 2009

Media & Entertainment

• 3ds Max 2008
• New - 3ds Max 2009
• New - 3ds Max 2009 Design
• Combustion 2008
• Cleaner 6 for Mac
• Cleaner XL 1.5
• Maya Complete 2008
• Maya Unlimited 2008
• MotionBuilder 7.5
• Sketchbook Pro 2.0