Pixar RenderMan for Maya 3.0 (Student) w/ Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation 2010 (Perpetual License)

Pixar Renderman for Maya 3.0 (1 Year Student Subscription)

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RenderMan for Maya brings RenderMan's speed, power, and stability directly to Maya users, without the added cost and complexities of our premium, high-end products, RenderMan Pro Server and the RenderMan Studio. If you've been looking for an affordable, easy way to get RenderMan, your wait is over.

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RenderMan for Maya takes all your Maya scene data — Maya Materials, lights, geometry, Maya Fur, particles, Maya Hair, et cetera — and renders them with Pixar's RenderMan. Simply select “RenderMan” from the Render Using menu and your image will appear in the Maya Render View window. Get the same production-quality motion blur and displacements, ambient occlusion, 3D caching and baking, not to mention the legendary power, speed, and stability of Pixar's RenderMan, right there in the Maya UI.

SPECIAL RENDERMAN FEATURES

Maya users can enjoy the same global illumination and subsurface scattering effects, deep shadows, and super-efficient subdivision schemes available in RenderMan Pro Server. Ray-tracing effects, such as global illumination, and other effects, like motion blur, are set up via the Render Globals. Other RenderMan features, like Deep Shadows or subsurface scattering, are attached directly to Maya nodes.

RenderMan for Maya was designed with ease-of-use and affordability in mind, without sacrificing the most important features of RenderMan: speed, stability, and quality. Those who require the versatility of RIB in and out, the robust, highly programmable shading tools in Slim, or the dynamic capabilities of plug-in procedurals are encouraged to use our premium, high-end products: RenderMan Studio and RenderMan Pro Server.

LATEST FEATURES

RenderMan® for Maya® 3.0 is the latest version of Pixar's advanced rendering plug-in for Maya, featuring Pixar's award-winning RenderMan renderer. Highlights in version 3.0 include a series of significant performance enhancements, which should be immediately apparent on many scenes. Here are some of the new features:

RENDERER ENHANCEMENTS

1. Enhanced Threading - Significant gains when using multiple processors
2. Accelerated Ray Tracing - Substantial performance optimizations
3. Faster Depth of Field - For scenes with fast objects and heavy blur
4. Faster Subsurface Scattering - With a new threaded version of PTFilter
5. Faster AOVs - Significant improvements for secondary outputs
6. More Efficient Polygons - Complex meshes have big performance gains
7. Optimized Long Curves - Long hair is now easier to render
8. Organized Point Clouds - Better performance through improved memory efficiency
9. Ray Traced Procedural Unload - Trace procedural geometry with greater memory efficiency
10. And much more ...

PLUG-IN FEATURES

1. New Workspace Editor - Improved asset management
2. Enhanced Extendibility - More flexible for production pipelines
3. RSL for Maya Materials - Now may be easily customized

Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation 2010 (13 Month Subscription)

The world of 3D is changing every day. Prepare your students with the new Autodesk® Education Suite for Entertainment Creation, featuring flexible learning resources and tools used by top creative professionals. With special pricing for educators, it’s easy to get started with 3D.

Includes full versions of the following software solutions:

Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2010 software

Autodesk® Maya 2010 software

Autodesk® Softimage® 2010 software

Autodesk® MotionBuilder® 2010 software

Autodesk® Mudbox™ 2010 software

Along with the entertainment creation software bundle, Autodesk offers access to a variety of online, self-paced curriculum and learning resources, created by educators and industry professionals, to help you educate tomorrow’s digital artists—all accessible through the Student Engineering & Design Community (login required).

The following titles are examples of curricula that support the Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation:

Maya for Games—gives each student the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be an associate environment artist in a game studio, learning Maya through the techniques established by professionals. Once they complete the curriculum, students should have a portfolio-ready environment.

Maya Fundamentals: Visual Storytelling and Design—includes concept art, floor plan sketches, and character studies, as well as chapters on design, color, and composition. The curriculum covers the fundamentals of 3D, while exploring storytelling and the elements and principles of design. Storytelling is used throughout the learning process to keep the information compelling.

MotionBuilder—helps you teach the basics of 3D animation, and introduce students to animation controls, pose controls, camera angles, and story line tracking with ease and confidence. This curriculum provides lecture notes, student workbooks, and data sets for classroom and one-on-one instruction.

From award-winning software to technical support and self-paced learning tools, Autodesk offers a range of solutions that promote high-quality teaching—all at an affordable price. With the Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation, you can:

Help students develop skills necessary for success in today’s competitive job market. The demand for complex and high-quality 3D modeling, animation, and rendering is increasing. Developing competency with an Autodesk toolset can help students transition smoothly into the workplace.

Feel confident teaching best-in-class 3D technology. After years of ongoing development and rigorous use by leading feature film, visual effects, and games production facilities, Autodesk solutions have become known as some of the most stable, reliable, and production-proven 3D software applications in the industry. You can choose your ideal curriculum workflow with either Maya, 3ds Max, or Softimage, along with the specialized modeling and animation capabilities of Mudbox and MotionBuilder.

Get access to support at every level. In addition to industry-leading technology, Autodesk offers comprehensive product and technical support and a wide variety of community and self-paced learning resources. Autodesk® Subscription is available, offering access to software enhancements, e-learning, and web support.

Promote maximum creativity. Explore creative ideas using the full power of Autodesk’s state-of-the-art modeling and animation technology.