Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk 3ds Max Design software provide powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing tools that enable artists and designers to more quickly ramp up for production. The two versions share core technology and features, but offer differentiated experiences and specialized toolsets for game developers, visual effects artists, and graphic designers on the one hand, and architects, designers, engineers, and visualization specialists on the other.

New Features:

Nitrous Accelerated Graphics Core:

Enjoy dramatic improvements in performance and visual quality in the viewport.

Substance Procedural Textures:

Achieve a vast range of look variations with 80 new Substance procedural textures.

mRigids Rigid-Body Dynamics:

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Autodesk® Maya® 3D animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for animation, modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. Whether you work in film, games, television, advertising, publishing, or graphic design, Maya offers state-of-the-art toolsets, combined into a single affordable offering designed to help meet today’s demanding production requirements. Autodesk® Maya® 2012 delivers new toolsets for previsualization and game prototyping, extended simulation capabilities, and improved pipeline integration.

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Autodesk® Maya® 3D computer animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for animation, 3D modeling, visual effects, 3D rendering, and compo ... Read more to Download »