Features Include:

Includes everything in Maya Complete 2008, PLUS:

• Maya Fluid Effects - Simulate and render a huge variety of atmospheric, pyrotechnic, viscous liquid and open ocean effects. Maya Fluid Effects overcomes one of the greatest barriers in computer animation.
• Maya Fur - Easily create realistic fur, short hair, wool and grass on NURBS, subdivision surfaces or polygonal models. Incredibly realistic styling and rendering of short hair and fur, with Maya Artisan Brush Interface for painting fur attributes.
• Maya nCloth - As the first Maya module built on the Autodesk new Nucleus technology, Maya nCloth functionality lets you quickly direct and control cloth and other material simulations in entirely new ways. Maya nCloth objects can be as stiff, viscous or flowing and as tightly or loosely woven as you desire. Rapidly create cloth-on-cloth simulations—such as a shirt over pants—with believable influences and collisions. Bend, stretch, shear, dent or even tear your Maya nCloth fabrics with ease. Beyond cloth, Maya nCloth lets you create deformable plastic and metal simulations, inflatable objects, as well as rigid-body and fluidic-type effects
• Maya Live - Combine 2D live-action with 3D elements. Maya Live provides greater flexibility, a fast-integrated 2D Tracker and an interactive Root Frame Solver. Maya Live also allows you to reconstruct live-action elements as 3D geometry as well as output to external applications.
• Maya Hair - Create, style and render fully dynamic long hair on NURBS or polygon objects. Make any NURBS curve dynamic for use in advanced character rigging and effects. Maya Hair can also be used to create a wide range of nonhair effects.

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

New - Autodesk Maya Unlimited 2008 Super Pack
Includes: Maya Unlimited 2008, Motionbuilder 7.5 Pro, Cleaner XL & Combustion 2008

* Price per user
Available for Windows and Macintosh

New - Autodesk Animation Academy for Secondary Schools

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* For Secondary Schools only.

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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

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• 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