Autodesk Maya Celebrates 10th Anniversary

This year, the most popular package for creating 3D graphics is 10 years old. On this occasion, Autodesk posted on its website the history of development, achievements and funny cartoon “Bingo” , thanks to which Maya became famous. But the company didn’t limit it and recently announced a new product - Maya 2009 ( Unlimited and Complete ). We promise to update and improve the following modules:

Maya Fluid Effects ,
Maya fur ,
Maya ncloth
Maya nParticles ,
Maya Live ,
Maya Hair .

And in honor of the anniversary a little about the history of creation:
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Maya is a symbiosis of three programs: The Advanced Visualizer from Wavefront Technologies in California, Explore from Thomson Digital Image (TDI) in France, and Alias ​​Power Animator in Canada. The result was Maya 1.0, released in February 1998 for the IRIX operating system, and in June and under Windows. Soon, the various Maya modules were grouped into 2 packages: Complete and Unlimited. Later came the 3rd product - Maya Builder. By 2001, in accordance with demand, Maya became available also under Linux and MacOS. Now, 10 years after the first release, Maya continues to improve in products like Maya 2009.
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